Assume, for the purposes of this exercise, that you are piloting a small craft, no more than 30 feet in length, and you motor out of the Honolulu marina having charted a course for a three-hour tour. At some point, the weather starts getting rough, and your tiny ship is tossed. (Perhaps you're familiar, at this point, with this particular word problem?)
Taking into consideration engine speeds, storm wind activity, and the painstaking efforts of the United States Navy in World War II to map every single inch within a 500-mile radius of the Hawaiian archipelago, it's literally impossible to find yourself aground on the shore of an unchartered desert isle.
Run the numbers yourself, if you don't believe me. You'll find that, even at different wind speeds and multiple storm vectors, a ship setting off on a three-hour tour that hits nasty weather is more likely to be blown back toward its home port. Or, at worse, will wash up on the beach in Maui.
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