Not just a sea story

Many thanks to the cruise ship Louis Majesty and the 33 foot waves that struck it for reinforcing my earlier point that going to sea is, as Samuel Johnson once said, like going to hell for a pastime.

And this was just the Mediterranean. Wave size is a product of wind velocity x fetch (how far the wave gets to travel over water) x duration of wind. If the Med can produce waves this size on occasion, imagine what the Atlantic or Pacific can (and do) generate: without earthquakes.

So much for the soft life of sailors.