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Originally Posted by Kafka BC
Standing Lookout Watch on a warship in wartime, were the survival of the ship and crew depends on you, is just as tough as any other submarine job, and efficiency rapidly deteriorates...hence four hour shifts.
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Well I'm still not entirely convinced, but I'm willing to allow that my experience might be ideosyncratic. I'm a small guy with little physical strength but a very long attention span. Although I must insist that a lifebouy sentry
is a lookout and, no, you really can't avoid looking at the wake becuase it's one of the areas you have to keep an eye on.
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Originally Posted by Kafka BC
Lookouts on warships require skill and training.
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Oh, undoubtedly.
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Originally Posted by Kafka BC
I don't know where you got this, but on U-Boats the Radio/Hydrophone crew generally stood six hour watches and doubled as medics as well.
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That's very interesting; I didn't know that. I wonder how they were able to keep it up for so long without losing efficiency very quickly?
Anyway, maybe it might be an idea to tweak the hardness of good-weather watchkeeping up a bit and tweak radio watch down.