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Random Heavy Seas on the North Sea.....The Very Thought... Shudder...and at the same time endlessly fascinating

I'll have to ask my old man. He served on a Coast Guard icebreaker in the Arctic and North Atlantic and has been in that shit.

I never asked him about hitting the head on rough seas though.
I think the heads are normally small enough that you can jam your shoulders against the walls and stay put. They are on the sail boats I've crewed on. Not weather like this though, although I've been in in rough enough that you need to think about hand holds as well as foot holds when moving around. Spewed up too but luckily once that happened found my 'sea legs' and was ok for the trip.

The sound of the prop revving when the boat surfed down waves at night, even though the engines were off, kind of gave it an exotic sound...
 
Imagine if it was a combat situation.
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I think the heads are normally small enough that you can jam your shoulders against the walls and stay put. They are on the sail boats I've crewed on. Not weather like this though, although I've been in in rough enough that you need to think about hand holds as well as foot holds when moving around. Spewed up too but luckily once that happened found my 'sea legs' and was ok for the trip.

The sound of the prop revving when the boat surfed down waves at night, even though the engines were off, kind of gave it an exotic sound...
I've been out on fishing boats and they were pretty tight in there. I don't know if there would have even been enough legroom for me to sit if I had to.

I think the ship my father was on had them side by side with partitions in between and no doors. I watched a video that showed the head on an Iowa class battleship. They were all open and arranged like a small theater. There had to be at least a dozen of them.
 
I've been out on fishing boats and they were pretty tight in there. I don't know if there would have even been enough legroom for me to sit if I had to.

I think the ship my father was on had them side by side with partitions in between and no doors. I watched a video that showed the head on an Iowa class battleship. They were all open and arranged like a small theater. There had to be at least a dozen of them.
The north sea is a shallow sea that used to be tundra before the end of the last ice age. Trawlers are often pulling up mamoth bones in their nets. The shallowness of the sea is the reason it's so rough.

Bass Straight, that water between the Aus mainland and Tasmania, is similar. When that water goes off it gets increadibly dangerous.

The Sydney Hobart race of 1998 was when it went off. Some of the pics are increadible. Boats ripped apart.

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