How about serving in the Merchant Marine for 30+ years, huh, LOL, plus four years on Greenland, one year 400 miles from the North Pole!!!
I had a great uncle in the Merchant Marine who spent a good part of WWII on the Murmansk run. Had two ships sunk from beneath him.
Get some rum in him and man, how the sea stories would flow.
I really miss him.