How bout this the great lakes.
They have huge water and storms and swells
Great lakes ships that cross the View attachment 481131
Big graveyard!
That Bearing sea is a perfect example of how shallow water increases wave action that BBASS was talking about. It is one of the roughest seas on the planet and also one of the shallowest. We have worked there and my daughter was on a 378 foot cutter there for 2 years.........tough duty.
She told me she was also on a 95 footer and liked that duty too because the crew was smaller and duties were more diverse. BTW, once we landed a helo at North Island Naval Station because the engines were hot from lots of low level flying/hoist-training that picked up a bunch of salt from sea spray... we needed an engine wash, so a guy comes out with the wash cart and we got to chatting... I asked him what his other duties were, he said just manning the wash cart. What? Boring! I would kill myself!!! In Coast Guard aviation there were few of us, we had to cross train and do a bit of everything! I worked on Avionics, but I also helped rebuild the engines, change out the brakes, etc etc. Sheesh. Navy...