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Piloting Heavy Seas

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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As a young cadet cadet excited about an approaching storm the C/M told me something Ifind myself repeating; “You can tell the green hands from the old salts by their reaction to an approaching storm. The newbie will say ‘This is going to be fun’ while the old salt is thinking ‘Shit, not another’.

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heavy weather slideshow

September 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

A quick YouTube video of ships battling heavy seas and rogue waves.

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