According to POC trivia Davy Jones was once one of the greatest sailors of the seven seas. He fell in love with the Goddess of the Sea Calypso. He made somewhat of a pact with the goddess. He literally gave his heart to the Sea in return he could sail the seas for eternity ferrying all the souls that where lost at sea to the other side. And part of the deal was that every 10 years he could spend one day on shore.
Calypso
gave Davy Jones the Flying Dutchman to accomplish this task. Her reason
for this is unknown. She swore that after ten years she would meet him and they
would spend one day together before he returned to his duties. He faithfully
kept to his charge for ten years, and after his first decade of duty, prepared
to see his love again. Calypso however, after those ten years, failed to show
up because of her capricious nature, which had drawn Jones to her in the first
place.[12] Thinking Calypso had betrayed him, an enraged
and heartbroken Davy Jones turned the Pirate Brethren against her, saying that if she were
removed from the world, they would be able
to claim the seas for themselves. They assembled in the First Brethren
Court and Jones taught
them how to imprison her into her human form (Tia Dalma); the Court agreed with
him to imprison her forever.[14]
Soon, Jones' grief at Calypso's betrayal and guilt at what he
had done became so great that he curved out his heart and placed it in the
"Dead Man's Chest". Containing a powerful lock, the Chest was sealed
and placed within a larger wooden chest along with Jones' numerous love letters
to Calypso and all other items having to do with her, except his matching
musical locket. This was then buried on Isla Cruces, a plague
island. Jones then departed, keeping his unique double-stemmed key to the Chest
with him at all times. Since then, Jones has abandoned his duty and sailed the
seas, making deals and doing as he pleased. Though immortal, his disregard for
his duty brought punishment, mutating him into a parody of humanity, and with
him, his ship, and whomsoever served on it. His crew is lured into service by
the notion that they can forestall their "final judgment" for 100
years by serving aboard the Dutchman, however, they don't know that they will
slowly mutate into creatures like Jones until they are essentially barnacles on the ship's hull, ultimately useless.
The lore of the "feared Flying Dutchman"
begins as Jones' eerie ship sailed about destroying ships to recruit for crew.
With his supernatural power, he becomes ruler of the oceans' realm and comes to
command the Kraken, a feared
mythological sea monster.
Davy Jones' character was given a large arsenal of supernatural abilities at his disposal. Though normally relying on the strength of his crew, ship, and the Kraken, Jones has proven quite powerful on his own. He is seen in At World's End as a brilliantly skilled swordsman and was able to break Jack Sparrow's sword with his crab-claw hand as well as defeat everybody that opposed him. Jones is capable of teleportation on board the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl and can pass through solid objects, although he is never seen going through people. This ability to teleport was thought to be a plothole, as he is not seen to teleport to different ships during battle. When asked, the producers of Dead Man's Chest simply said that they noticed the plot hole as well, but chose to say that his teleportation skills only work at night-time.
Davy Jones Locker
Meaning
The bottom of the sea; the resting place of drowned mariners.
Origin
Davy Jones is the evil spirit of the sea. There are various possible attempts to explain the name by associating it with someone of a similar name:
Jones may be a corruption of name of the biblical seaman Jonah. Jonah denoted bad luck on to seamen.Davy Jones was a 16th century publican who imprisoned drunken sailors in a locker and press-ganged them to serve on ships.The name comes from the patron saint of sailors - St. David.
None of these is supported by any evidence - they are little more than guesses.
The first source of the use of the name comes from Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 1751:
"'By the Lord! Jack, you may say what you wool; but I'll be damned if it was not Davy Jones himself. I know him by his saucer eyes, his three rows of teeth, his horns and tail, and the blue smoke that came out of his nostrils. What does the blackguard hell's baby want with me? I'm sure I never committed murder, except in the way of my profession, nor wronged any man whatsomever since I first went to sea.' This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, shipwrecks, and other disasters, to which a seafaring life is exposed; warning the devoted wretch of death and woe."
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