Blue Nose Ceremony
By LooeyVille
@LooeyVille (57)
United States
May 21, 2025 10:55am CST
We had the most fun time today. I’ll try to get a photo to attach
The "Blue Nose" ceremony is a sailing tradition in celebration of sailors' crossing of the Arctic Circle. It involves painting their noses blue and participating in a rite of passage, in this case it was getting ice water dumped on our heads
The ceremony takes place when a ship enters the Arctic Circle, a latitude of 66°34'N.
The ceremony recognizes and inducts sailors and passengers into the "Order of the Blue Nose," which is a way to celebrate their accomplishment
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@FourWalls (74805)
• United States
21 May
Congratulations! Be thankful you didn’t get a Shellback celebration (my brother had one of those)…of course, there’d probably be massive lawsuits if a cruise ship did what the Navy did. 
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@LooeyVille (57)
• United States
21 May
I am a shellback having crossed the equator. They threw us in slop in that ceremony
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@LindaOHio (188979)
• United States
6h
Congratulations. I wouldn't have cared for the ice water. I remember pictures of my father in the Navy during the hijinks when they crossed the equator. It was terrible!!!
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@RasmaSandra (85128)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20h
Enjoy it all sounds like a lot of fun, Are you the lovely young lady with the blue nose?
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@snowy22315 (189762)
• United States
21 May
Sounds like fun...you got ice water dumped on your head, or theirs?
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@RebeccasFarm (94945)
• Arvada, Colorado
21 May
Pretty funny! Your eyes are lovely color too Lou.
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