Oren wrote:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:11:41 -0500, gonjah gonjah.net wrote:

Have you been in rough 8 foot seas in the North Atlantic?

The sea that night was dead calm.

Define "dead calm".

An 8 foot sea swell is calmer than a 25 footer.

"Dead Calm: A condition of no wind or a wind with a speed of less than 1
knot (1.15 miles per hour; 1.9 kilometers per hour), according to the
Beaufort scale."