Shipping forecast

Wow, listening to the shipping forecast on Radio 4 before heading for bed. It always comes on, last thing before the station shuts down for the night.
It occurs to me I'd hate to to be in charge of a ship and actually to have to listen to this thing in a serious sort of working way, rather than have it on in the background. "Winds increasing NE3 or 4 gradually increasing to Gale 8", sounds great in my cosy flat in NE London...Not sure how it would feel to be hearing in that in the radio room of a trawler in the North Sea - probably slightly different.