Six-spotted fishing spider Six-spotted fishing spider The six-spotted fishing spider, Dolomedes triton, is an arachnid from the nursery web spider family Pisauridae. This species is from the genus "Dolomedes", the fishing spiders. This species of fishing spider is named after the mythological Greek god Triton who is the messenger of the big sea and the son of Poseidon. These spiders can be seen scampering along the water’s surface when a person walks by in which they are often referred to as dock spiders because they are often witnessed as they quickly vanish through the cracks of a boat dock. This spider can be
Poseidon (fictional ship) Poseidon (fictional ship) The SS "Poseidon" is a fictional transatlantic ocean liner that first appeared in the 1969 novel "The Poseidon Adventure" by Paul Gallico and later in four films based on the novel. The ship is named after the god of the seas in Greek mythology. In the 1969 novel, the ship is traveling across the Atlantic on her first month-long cruise with African and South American ports of call, after her recent sale & conversion from the 35-year old British ocean liner RMS "Atlantis" into the American cruise ship SS Poseidon. On December 26, the "SS Poseidon" capsizes