Yes, like when approaching the Panama Canal on the Pacific side at night in force 8. Not a good time to be in the engine room, with contacts in all directions.
Saw a wooden private yacht on the reef just outside the harbor of Colon on the Atlantic side of Panama. She missed the opening to the harbor by just a smidgen...
She was on the reef just off the breakwater in Fort Sherman. It was about 1986.
When I was looking at her, scavengers (or salvagers, depending on your viewpoint) were stripping her of everything valuable.