[Sailor Steve]

SH3's waves are toned down somewhat. The max is 15 m/s. Someone once worked on trying to make more severe storms, but couldn't make it stick. Once inside the game again it would revert to the original settings. His solution was to double the size of the waves, so it looked like twice the actual setting. That 'Big Waves' mod is, as I said, incorporated into SH3 Commander, which so far is the best tool for playing the game. It allows you to change parameters with a single click, and adds more to the campaign than you can imagine.