You won't need 10 ton straps or anything like that - you're only trying to stop it moving, not lift it up. As others have said the bike needs to be on its side stand and the straps arranged to make sure it doesn't roll off the stand. One strap over the seat and ratcheted down to compress the suspension (a bit) seems to be the starting point with a second one arranged to stop the bike moving fore and aft.
Often the hardest bit is finding something to attach the straps to. The deck hands direct you into a convenient corner out of the way but you find you're on a plain piece of steel decking with no fixing points.
The "My ferry link" line that I traveled with a few months ago had a number of bike specific parking areas. I was directed to put the front wheel onto a kind of concrete V block and stay sitting on the bike. Four deck hands then appeared like a Formula 1 pit crew and lashed the bike down in about 30 secs. All I had to do was step off. It worked well with the worthless old wreck I was riding but maybe I wouldn't have been quite so ambivalent about their choice of attachment points if I'd been on something worth a bit more. I'm sure they meant well though
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