For folks hinging on the social distancing piece of this Crozier Send-off video, this is where the crew sleeps. The whole point of the letter was that the environment they live and work in is impossible to enforce CDC guidelines in.

I was a bottom rack sailor, never used a middle rack. Once on a berthing barge once, I think. I had a morbid (but not inaccurate) thought that I'd be more likely to be able to skedaddle out of berthing if I was able to slide right out of the bottom rack and not have to wait.