STEP2D abnormal job end blow up

Hi all,
I have gotten BenguelaLR and VHR to work with the provided setup (some changes to preproc as described in a previous post. Cross checked with results from the sample files for the benguela case and everything seems fine.
Now in order to come closer to the region I am interested in, change the lat lan in the crocotools_param file. However no combination of the grid parameters seems to work. I get a blow up after the zeroth step. I have also tried various timesteps for the model, without success.
I dont change the cppdefs which comes with the model. I change the LLm0 and MMm0 in param.h. If I change theta_s/theta_b and hc I update them in croco.in.
However nothing seems to help.
The region I am looking it is off the coast of Norway lon [9.0 ,10.04] lat [58, 59]. Given that this is a smaller domain, increased dl to 1/100.
Anyone has any hints to what could be wrong?

If someone gets more from cpp defs and param, here they are.
.in is not allowed, so uploaded croco.in as croco.txt
croco.txt (7.0 KB)

cppdefs.h (44.7 KB)
param.h (33.6 KB)