below is the black sea quartering the ship from starboard and from the stern , a following sea that the ship cant outrun and you lean against the rail and watch a large wave , maybe twenty feet , catch up with the ship and lift the stern from right to left , swinging the ship to port , and the ship surfs for a second down the face of the wave , the flight deck and port elevator surging toward the wavetop and the ship groans and shudders as the keel twists deep in her guts .