Bulk Carrier in Heavy Seas

BULK CARRIER in HEAVY SEAS

This ship is as large as an AIRCRAFT CARRIER!

But the sea can be VERY violent and completely unpredictable - like a woman?

The "strange black thing" appearing across the screen is the effect of the wipers clearing the spray from the waves that are hitting the Navigating Bridge windows...

The Orders relayed by the Helmsman from the Officer of the Watch (OOW):
"PORT (left) 20" [0.6]
"PORT (left) 15" [0.17]
"MIDSHIPS" [0.40]
are the Orders to steer the ship... as the vessel has been taken out of Autopilot and is on Manual Control!

As the ship is "HOVE TO" which means she is being steered into the waves.
If not - the consequences would be DIRE!!!

In conditions like this, it is essential that the Helmsman repeats the precise Orders of the Officer of the Watch... as the consequences are potentially grave... as with each large wave everyone on board faces immediate and imminent death...

As in a HURRICANE it could be too easy to go from the peak of one wave and down down into the trough of the next wave and never ever come up again...

When you have gone through this and worse... you know what others can never ever know...