Examples of use of heavy sea
1. Maria Cuzco, 15, described the moment when the boat sank in a heavy sea.
2. Aiyar told parliament that heavy sea swells pushed a nearby support vessel into the platform which sparked a blaze that engulfed and destroyed both.
3. The harsh weather and heavy sea conditions battered the crippled vessel and reduced the chances for survival of the crew as they abandoned ship.
4. Eighty years old, abandoned in the centre of the street on an orange stretcher amid a maelstrom of rubble, she looked like the last survivor of a shipwreck in a heavy sea. ‘Stay awake, don’t let go,’ she was told, as her eyelids flickered.
5. "What added to the horrors of the night was the inability of our saving them all as we could no longer entrust the lives of our men in open boats at the mercy of a heavy sea and most violent gale of wind." A family portrait of Robert Hilton painted after he returned from the Battle of Trafalgar was also left to Mrs Loveridge.