Which ocean or sea is typically the roughest?

Don't rock the boat.

OT response: whichever one your mother is currently swimming in.

This is the correct answer. shite's rough and cold. Not a great place to be.

Pregnant sea

Lake Ponchatrain

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Lake Ponchatrain

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Disagree. Lake Pontchartrain is the correct answer.

Cape Horn. Traveling around the southern tip of S. America has always been described as the roughest.

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The waters around Cape Horn are particularly hazardous, owing to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs; these dangers have made it notorious as a sailors' graveyard.

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Sailing around the Horn is widely regarded as one of the major challenges in yachting.

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Wikipedia-Cape Horn

I learned of Cape Horn from taking Oceanography as an elective under a Professor Zumwalt who had made the trip a few times working on Antarctic Expeditions (his brother went to church with my parents in Tulsa too). He spoke on the common 40 foot waves that are dwarfed by the really big waves from storms down there.

Zumwalt also spent a couple classes showing his dive photos researching and measuring the 40 year effects of radiation on the bomb testing atolls in the Pacific. (he has a variation of a sponge named for him, used to have a piece of Antarctic Glacier too but it broke away and became an iceberg and eventually melted)

Pretty cool elective but not an easy one. Took an overnight trip to the Louisiana Marine Consortium in Cocodrie right as the facility was completed. Went out on 2 different research boats, not the big one though.

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The southern ocean. No land masses to break the incessant wind. The lattitudes are known as the roaring forties, furious fifties, and screaming sixties

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This has always been my understanding too.

Mediterranean Sea