Nautical Strong Starts

1. Ship on the horizon: hostile
2. Ship on the horizon: friendly
3. Ship on the horizon: plague ship
4. Ship on the horizon: merchant ship
5. Ship on the horizon: ghost ship
6. Major storm approaching
7. Ship is becalmed – stuck unless non-natural movement aid
8. Tsunami
9. ship’s boat dragged under by something from below
10. Kracken shows up and asks for help
11. Mutiny (or onboard conditions threatening mutiny – abusive officers, spoiled food or lacking rations)
12. Skeleton pirates have shown up in town, going about their business as would a normal crew
13. The catch of the day comes out of the water screaming in a human voice
14. Something like those waves of coconut crabs you see on tropical islands
15. Come across the survivor of a shipwreck, floating on a piece of wreckage
16. Hit a shoal where no shoal should be
17. Encounter a giant patch of floating seaweed
18. Underwater creatures (sea elves, sahuagin, water spirits, etc) causing trouble because passing ships are disrupting something of theirs
19. Navigator is very confused - the stars aren’t where they are supposed to be, and the constellations are all different….
20. A bored flock of awakened sea gulls have decided your ship is perfect for target practice. “2 points for a deck hand, 10 points for an officer. 20 if you hit the captain!”

hat tip Humza, Hedgehog Cannon, Scipio202