to go to the bottom of the sea. (Thought of as a nautical expression.)
My camera fell overboard and went to Davy Jones's locker.My uncle was a sailor. He went to Davy Jones's locker during a terrible storm.
go to Davy Jones's locker
To die at sea. Tragically, many men from that battle in the Pacific Ocean went to Davy Jones's locker.
go to Davy Jones's locker
be drowned at sea.
Davy Jones is identified in Tobias Smollett'sPeregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) as ‘the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep’, but the origin of the name is uncertain.