About the book: 2016 / Andrey Riskin, being the deputy editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, is still at heart feels as much like a journalist as a naval officer. And this feeling does not go away over the years. Because service in the navy is for life. In the book “They don’t get meningitis in the navy, or shoot Neptune, drown the mermaid,” there are not only traditional naval tales, but also a story about the rise of the nuclear-powered icebreaker “Kursk” in the fall of 2001 (during this unique operation the author was in Murmansk), versions of the death of the submarine , as well as notes made during his studies at the Kaliningrad VVMU. And finally, notes on the relations between sailors of Russia and Ukraine during the “Crimean spring”».