I live minutes from the shore of one of the Great Lakes and have spent my fair share of time on it and smaller lakes. Not to mention a few times on the ocean.

I’m fairly comfortable on a boat, but I have found that I like to be able to see land wherever I am. Because so many things could go wrong and being in the middle of the ocean, no land in sight, when something did go wrong would be horrifying.

Here are 50 examples of things that could go wrong on a boat, ship, yacht, canoe, whatever. Some of them happen in the water, some don’t.