Think of a 1200 ton Cargo ship laden with Paper pulp, including deck cargo, on passage Bergen, Norway to Bowaters on the London River in March. A Westerly Gale sets in with darkness peaking at Force 8 on the 2nd watch out, (10 pm to 3am) and there is nothing between the ship and North America so the waves get a bit frisky and the white caps are wetting the paper pulp so it is sopping it up like blotting paper. At 2 am the watch below are called and are out on top of the cargo for the next 4 hours (No safety lines as there are no safe securing points )in Oilskins and rubber seaboots with very little grip on that horrible surface, using axes to cut the ties on the 2 ton bales of sodden paper and then sitting in a row on top of what they hope, are still secured bale and pushing with your feet to get them overboard then doing the same on the not saturated side to counterbalance, Oilskins are no protection as the spray gets into every nook and cranny and runs down your neck and waterproofs into your seaboots, All the time there is a real fear of a few good seas over and the ship would turn turtle!! So work continues without a break. And the Skipper, invoked the "Safety of the ship " rule and didn't pay the Called out Watch below for the extra work!!and loss of sleep etc., is that "adventurous" enough?? Strange how things are adventures in retrospect but Hairy dangerous situations at the time