User blog comment:Woohoot/Overhyped Grandline/@comment-4899461-20150126145616

Island life can be quite normal on the Grand Line/New World. It's the actual sailing on them that's really dangerous. Look at stuff from Paradise they had to deal with: Aqua Laguna, the Florian Triangle, the knock-up stream, and all kinds of other crazy stuff. Everything we've seen of sailing in the NW has actually been quite dangerous, with all the fire, lightning islands, fighting fish and stuff. Even when they were on the phone with Doffy, there was some weird stuff going on in the sea, but it wasn't even mentioned out loud.

Compare all that stuff to the weirdest stuff we saw in the East Blue: Storms.