Hopefully Young Buna won't have many occasions in his future career to encounter such bad weather. Good luck to him in his studies...
My father was in the US Merchant Marines and he once said the really big concern was "rogue waves"; although they are rather infrequent, they can do a lot of damage to a ship in a very short time. He encountered one once that was of a very good size and really put the cargo ship he was on through some very difficult turns. He tended to like the more coastal routes after that, trying to avoid any long-distance ocean crossings if he could...
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