[MercyFlush]

The bit about the weather holds true:

https://www.buoyweather.com/forecast/marine-weather/@44.040218713142146,36.9140625

Thursday 4/14

Morning
Moderate to strong W winds with choppy seas. Hazardous Seas Warning. Large short period waves.

Winds: W 18 to 20 knots.
Seas: WSW 10 feet at 8 seconds.

[marktwain]

Thanks for the weather report on the seas.

I was going to look for that.

[BluH2o]

Large short period waves.

Short period large waves and a disabled ship ... very dangerous. On one of my two Med cruises attached to the 6th Fleet we encountered conditions similar to this north/west of Malta. The ship plowed thru the seas at diminished speed but we took a pounding ... a ship dead in the water without forward speed to maintain steerage is in deep du-du.