I served aboard a few naval vessels while I was in the Marine Corps. There were some pretty rough seas (especially in the North Atlantic in Spring time).
When I see this I wonder how men from several hundred years ago mustered up the courage to go to sea in ships much smaller than what we have today. Thank God for men like them.
Very true. Our European ancestors would never have made it to this continent without such brave men to pilot those angry seas.
America owes its very existence to mariners. Interesting, eh?