31.   Officials feared the wreck would break open if hit by a new round of heavy seas.

32.   One lifeboat was launched with two dozen men, including Lunde, on board, but it capsized repeatedly in heavy seas and lost all its provisions.

33.   Surfers on Oahu in Hawaii are towed by jet ski into seas too heavy to paddle through.

34.   The Estonia sank after water leaked onto its car deck in heavy seas, causing it to capsize.

35.   The Japanese would try to respond to the supply problem by building thousands of barges, but they could not cross heavy seas.

36.   The signal meant she was moving forward just enough to maintain steerage way, struggling to keep her bow into the waves, the safest pose in heavy seas.

37.   The water-taxi operator lives aboard a schooner, and knew that heavy seas are no place for sleeping sailors.

38.   They thank him for piloting his University of Washington football team through the heavy seas of probation, still winning.

39.   While in Italy, Shelley had the bad sense to go sailing without a personal flotation device and drowned in heavy seas.