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On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:53:50 -0500,
wrote:

This web site has some of the most dramatic storm photos and
commentary that I've ever seen:

http://global-mariner.com/index111TheStorm.html

It definitely gives you an appreciation for how a large ship could be
lost at sea.

We got tossed around enough in the North Atlantic to appreciate the
power of the sea but it was nothing like a hurricane.
We did see some #8-9 seas but the wind was still nowhere near a cat 1
and the El Faro may have seen a Cat 3.
It was still bringing the screws out of the water on every wave. After
a while you just got used to it.
Normally they just have someone on the deck watch at the helm but in
the real nasty stuff, there was a quartermaster on the bridge just to
be sure we were pointing the right way and that might not be the base
course. We weren't really going anywhere anyway.