The weather was getting pretty rough; the seas and the wind were both running high, and there was rain. The compasses went out in just 2 hours in the practice run due to a thunderstorm over the Bahamas. "We cannot be sure where we are," the flight leader announced, "repeat, cannot see land" (Flightglobal 10). Even though the clouds were acting weird the water was too. The water wasn’t blue, but it was like a white color.