Victory at Sea

So we drove down to the beach this morning just to see the waves and Logan said 'it's Victory at Sea'. He was right of course but when I asked him what it means he just said blown out.

Man, he didn't know the reference to best war TV show of all time! Victory at Sea. I loved this show! I am a failure as a parent and pop culture historian. I immediately had to go to Wikipedia and YouTube.I found it and it still good. enjoy

Wikipedia: Victory at Sea was a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally aired by NBC in the USA in 26 half-hour segments on Sunday afternoons, starting October 26, 1952 and ending May 3, 1953. The series, which won an Emmy in 1954 as best public affairs program, played a major role in establishing historic documentaries as a viable television genre. When it first aired, NBC thought it so important that it had no commercial breaks.

We used to watch this show and it was great. I tried to find out when the expression was taken by the surf community, but there was nothing really in print until the 90's.

victory at sea -idiom
(idiom) ocean, Ocean conditions very windblown and messy, possibly to the point of being inimical to surfing and other water sports.
1995, Tom Tweed, 1/5/95 sd cali. surf 7-8' onshore slop

I remember the expression when I was a kid in the 70's and I am sure they used it from the 50's after looking at the opening segment.