Maritime morality

Plop is the sound something makes when it falls overboard. Plop is also the sound of a moral dilemma. And in that sense the sea is a great leveller, because the immensely gratifying plop made by someone else’s Rolex Oyster going overboard is indistinguishable from the mortifying plop of your half-eaten pork pie.

The measure of maritime morality is about how you react in such a crisis. The bereaved pork pie owner will find consolation in reassuring