I had my own experience on the General W. A. Mann off Japan in 1963. We spent three days in a typhoon, the second day being the worst. I was one of the very few not sea sick. The little I could see of the bow on the second day was alarming. A wave would come over the bow as it dropped into the trough and before it could recover another would hit.
Not all waves were so kind as to come at us head on---they seemed to come from any direction. From my "duty station" in the "clipper room" of the mess deck I could watch through my porthole the scene change---from angry sea to angry sky interrupted only by the passing of the horizon as we rolled to what felt like 90 degrees at times.
I spent three days trying to dodge the mess being generated with no control of time nor place by most of the other 5000 poor bastards with me on that dehumanizing journey.
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 05-24-2019 at 11:07 AM.
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