Apparently DJ Taylor believes that he will be spared. :)
Dang it, you just gave me a flashback. As a young Marine Corporal, I crossed the Pacific in July (Typhoon Season) 1961 on the Troopship USS General J. C. Breckinridge and I still have unpleasant memories of the experience.
That ship was infested with body lice from bow to stern, and when I finally got off in Okinawa I had crabs on me from head to toe. The memory of thirty days of being locked up below deck in a troop compartment with a company unbathed Marines while a Typhoon tossed the ship around and I scratched my crab bites is still with me.