Salty sea-dog I am not!!

[Foghladh_mhara]

I can safely say I would not have lasted long in the U-Boat service. I've done the ferry crossings from Ireland to Britain about a hundred times and the North Sea route to Goteborg as well but until last week I had never set foot on a small sea boat before.

I was doing a spot of deep sea fishing off the west coast of Ireland with some mates. Perfect conditions. If I'd had a watch officer he would have been reporting 'clouds clear, precipitations none, wind speed 0'. Couldn't be any better.

And what did I spend my time doing? I spent my time heaving my guts over the side and when I wasn't doing that I was dry retching in the cabin. I have never been more miserable in my entire life!

I cant imagine doing a bridge watch mid-atlantic in a storm

[KeptinCranky]

:rotfl:

oh man, that's rough, an illusion shattered, but knowing that might add to immersion

I once took a trip on a lifeboat, those things reach 30knts easily, also flat calm no wind it wasn't a whole lot of fun.
but it could be worse, a friend of mine gets seasick when looking at my bridge view in sh3, just from the motion on the screen

maybe uboats aren't that bad, at least they get to dive to get away from the worst of it.

Which once more goes to show that the real real hardcore nutcases are in torpedo boats, that's why they're so annoying, they have to vent a lot of anger

[Brag]

That's too bad -- but I'd bet if you've seen a destroyer, you'd be too busy worrying about DC to even thing about being sea sick.

[Telgriff]

Bummer.. Worst I have been in was a small passenger ferry (held about 30 people) going through the middle of a serious storm which felt like an evacuation. The ferry was going 40 degree rolls left and right with the swell from the storm. Didnt feel nauseous, was more concerned that I might have to swim back to shore if the ferry capsized.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by KeptinCranky

:rotfl:


but it could be worse, a friend of mine gets seasick when looking at my bridge view in sh3, just from the motion on the screen

This raises an interesting question about video games in general.

Are people who watch video games being played more susceptible to vertigo than people who play video games?

Both my girlfriend and I are gamers. We sometimes like to play FPS games (doom, Fear, etc). In these types of games there is a lot of movement on the screen. I find that if I am playing the game it does not bother me but if I watch my girlfriend play the same game I get a little queasy. She has experienced the same combination of feelings.

I have heard that people who normally get carsick won’t get carsick when they are driving. I guess being in control helps. Is that the same with video games?

[Brag]

At sea when being on watch I never got sick. But off-watch, got queazy a couple ot times--normally fixed by going out on deck

[Chock]

I'm fairly immune to feeling sick in situations like that, which is just as well since I do aerobatics in a glider in real life. But your post does remind me of something that I found really shocking when I went on a fishing trip in a small boat off the coast of Wales many years ago.

The fishing boat had a Decca Navigator installed so that it could GPS its way to known wreck sites (where the fish shoals would be). So off it goes with the captain/pilot explaining this to us (about six guys I seem to recall), and it eventually arrives over a wreck spot just barely within sight of land.

'Alright lads, there you go', he calls out, and we duly drop our lines over the side and start catching a lot of fish. What I guess was about ten about minutes later, he calls out for us to get our lines in, which we all do. Then he sets off going again, and I assumed he was taking us to another wreck spot. It was at this point that I looked up and noticed that a cottage which I'd spotted on the land in the distance was now absolutely goddam miles away up the coast, and we were actually on the way back to the same wreck site again!

That's when I developed a healthy respect for how dangerous and fast-flowing ocean currents can be! I simply couldn't believe how far we had drifted in ten minutes

[GoldenRivet]

constant exposure may help grow sea legs

some pilots i have worked with continued training despite terrible air sickness and they did just fine in the end.

[Foghladh_mhara]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

constant exposure may help grow sea legs

Alternatively constant exposure may make me constantly sick
I was fine when we were moving but as soon as the boat stopped to cast out the lines the nightmare began again. I was mighty surprised at the size of the atlantic swell. As I said it was extremely calm, not a crested wave in sight but the swell lifted the boat up a few meters.

I guess I'm a landlubber

I'll have to leave this fine forum and find an agricultural simulation game somewhere

[Schöneboom]

Mensch, this reminds me of when I took a whale-watching cruise to the Farralon Islands, nearly 30 mi. outside the Golden Gate. An all-day trip. Miserably cold, bobbing up & down like a cork -- the only thing worse was going below, to be met with a greasy food-like stench. The risk of nausea was worse inside, so I spent most of the day on deck. In retrospect, a dilemma endured by many a U-bootman, no doubt.

Yes, we saw whales -- close enough to get sprayed when they exhaled.