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Davy Jones' locker is a metaphor for the oceanic abyss, the final resting place of drowned sailors and travellers. It is a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which the sailors' and ships' remains are consigned to the depths of the ocean (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker).
Davy Jones is a popular character in sailor's lore, especially of the gothic fictional variety. Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea: the state of death among drowned sailors. It is used as a euphemism for death or burial at sea (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker). [50]
Davy Jones' Locker is a fictional place first mentioned in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest before being featured prominently in At World's End. Based on a real superstition of the same name , Davy Jones' Locker is the nautical idiom meaning "the bottom of the sea".
Jones summons the Kraken, which drags Jack Sparrow and the Pearl to Davy Jones's Locker. He afterward opens the Chest only to find his heart missing; it having been taken by Jack Sparrow and subsequently stolen by James Norrington, who gives it to Lord Cutler Beckett , the chairman of the East India Trading Company.
Davy Jones's locker is a nautical idiom meaning "the bottom of the sea". ... "Davy Jones Locker", a song by Buckethead from the 2002 album Bermuda Triangle
Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean), captain of the Flying Dutchman from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; Davy Jones, a figure of nautical folklore best known from the idiom "Davy Jones' Locker" Davy Jones, a living wooden whale in John R. Neill's 1942 children's fantasy novel Lucky Bucky in Oz
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones also addressed a ruling by a judge requiring him to take a paternity test in case regarding him being the biological father of a 27-year-old woman.
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever.The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [1] [2] [3] and of Dutch maritime power.