Date A Sea Captain

Via Tyler Cowen on Marginal Revolution, here’s a dating site for sea captains: seacaptaindate.com. At first it looks like a joke, but, no. It’s real. There’s even a Time Magazine posting on it:

Ladies, do you find yourselves home alone on a Friday night, staring wistfully out to sea? Do you enjoy assembling tiny ships inside bottles or making sculptures out of driftwood that you find on the beach? Is your widow’s walk more like a single’s walk? Then NewsFeed has the dating website for you.

And then there’s this brilliant promotion:

Favorite line: “So when  got back to dry land, I logged onto one of them computer terminals, and I, I Googled the internet.” Don’t miss the Captain’s surprised reaction to the impromptu beach cartwheel at 1:55.