Well, since we're telling sea stories...
In the early 80's I was aboard the USS Tarawa, again transiting the edge of a Typhoon.
Her flight deck was 90ft above the water line, with the signal bridge 150ft above water line.
From the signal bridge I saw wave after wave put Blue Water over the flight deck and white water inundating the signal bridge.
She only had 28ft of draft with a flat bottom.
Once we cleared the storm we had to medevac nearly 60 Marines due to life threatening sea sickness.
Raw sewage and puke was sloshing around throughout the hanger bay and the mess decks.
The good old days!
You guys are crazy.
When I was in the North Atlantic in 1976, we hit some extremely rough weather (the entire surface was frothy white) and we had a Knox class frigate off our starboard beam that was pretty close, and watching it from the catwalk (where we weren’t supposed to be...only a few people were on the flight deck from each squadron checking tie-down integrity!) that thing was pitching, rolling, and yawing, the bow would bury in the water and run along each side of the ship while the single prop was out of the water, then the bow would come completely out of the water, all the while, rolling and yawing.
It was amazing. Bird farms don’t move a lot, but that thing...I wondered how people lived on there.
My hat is always off to those Tin Can Sailors! (and to you!)