Cool, bro -- tell us a good one!
Like being in the Sasebo Japan Harbor with other ships because the Sasebo Harbor is pretty well protected from high winds due to being surrounded by great hills (perhaps not mountains, but pretty high) with an entrance between them that a couple of ships the size of ours (950 ft. L X 107 ft. W draft 35 ft.) could (with some proper coordination) pass each other going into & out of the harbor when a typhoon hit?
So, we were at our various anchorages within the harbor when it was noticed that one of the other ships was dragging it's anchor, sliding backwards! And then another one! And then ourselves!
All of us had our bow anchors dragging as the typhoon winds were blowing us backward toward the mainland shore. The waves in the harbor were not huge, the ship was pretty steady (if you were sleeping in your room, you would not have noticed the issue).
Coordinating with the other ships, we all let ourselves drag our anchors as far as was deemed safe, then we all (as deemed necessary individually) got our engines going in ahead, and slowly moved forward as we raised our anchors just off the bottom of the harbor and pulled back up to our original anchorages. lowered the anchors again, let the engines idle & let the winds blow us back across the harbor & doing this again & again for about 5 hours.
What made it scary was that we were all there in order to get refueled. So we were all low on fuel.
Imagine the catastrophe that could happen if one ship ran out of fuel, the wind changed direction and that ship careened into another & then both being blown to the shore while sinking (perhaps hitting the bottom and being rolled over onto their sided with an ongoing typhoon).
Thank God we had enough fuel, there were no equipment failures & we all made it through the typhoon.