Harry Roughers!!

Morning all, it's the 3rd day now and guess what? it's still rough. So rough in fact that I'm actually feeling a bit ill. And i haven't been sea sick in the 11 years that I've been in the Navy!!! We didn't get much sleep last night, again. We are heading south through the Bay Of Biscay and there are normally two ways to do this! The first is the Bay is as flat and calm as a sheet of glass, whereas the second is what we are experiencing now. Rough as a badgers bum!!! Before changing course yesterday to hopefully get a better, smoother run, we did have one incident, and that was a flood!! This was not a severe as it sounds. We had just had a massive wave swamp the quarter deck (right down at the back of the ship, under the flight deck) and get in through the door, as it wasn't fully clipped shut. The doors have ten to twelve clips on them to make them secure and watertight!!! We got the water cleared away and then changed course to running down sea. This was good because it gave us a smoother run but the course was taking us away from our Navigational Track (navtrack). At about 2200 last night we were so far off course that to reach our next stop on time we had to turn. We did and all hell broke loose. Waves breaking over the forecastle (bows of the ship) had got into the electrics of the main broadcast where our alarms and tannoy is fed from and shorted it out. So, at about 0001 we had our general alarm sounding continuously, until the internal Com's maintainer had got it fixed. When we arose, very bleary eyed this morning the officer of the watch, the guy/girl in charge of driving the ship, gave his morning sit rep (situation report) over the main broadcast. He informed us of what we had heard rumours of already. That was that HMS Edinburgh and Somerset had had incidents in the severe rough weather, and people had ended up in the water. From what we can gather all parties are fine, but it just goes to show that no matter how experienced a seaman/woman you are, if you don't take extreme care in this job, it can turn around and bite you in the arse!! That's all for now, I think i'm actually starting to go green!!