Fedor said the ship was carrying 391 containers “so it had a lot of topside height to it where
the wind and waves could hit it” and that there were 294 trailers and automobiles below deck.
The part of the ocean where it sank is 15,000ft deep.
Our sounding stopped around 500-1000 fathoms
Then it would just say MSD on the display
A country good old boy man of a man on the boat pondered that for a bit and declared it must mean Mighty Shittin Deep
He’s long gone but we still chuckle over that 30 years later
Bartlett and Yucatan trenches