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You can see in the first photo the range of sea

conditions starting with 0 and ending with 12. A zero
on the Beaufort Scale indicates a completely flat sea

with no waves at all. This condition is very rare but it

does happen sometimes.

You can see as the Beaufort Scale increases the

description of the condition of the sea also changes
from calm for 0 on the scale right through to hurricane

for 12 on the scale.

Also note the size of the waves, for zero there are no
waves whereas for 12, the hurricane has waves that

are in excess of 14 metres. By any stretch of the
imagination, those of very high waves.

You will notice in the second photo that we had these
very severe weather conditions last February in one

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