Do any of you get seasick?Currently I'm writing from a 400ft ship about 450 miles out in the Pacific for work. I went out on this ship for 1 day back in Dec. We had 15 foot swells that time and the ship really pitched and rolled. THIS time we had 25-30 ft swells and gale force winds. 1/2 the ships crew and 1/2 of our staff is sick. It was BAD. The ship is light and has a round hull which makes it bob on the swells with bad rolling. Sometimes, with bad rolls, you have to grab onto something becasue you literally can't control yourself. The Captain is cutting across the swells to reduce the rolling but there is only so much he can avoid without going off course. I've been taking 1 pill of bromine in the morning to keep me from getting seasick. I don't know if I would get sick if I didn't take any, but once you are sick, I hear, it's really hard to shake it. Some of the people here really look like crap. LOLWhy do some people get sick but others don't? Mind you I've never been out to sea before.
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Sea Sickness
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I don't, and neither does anyone else in my family. Then again, practically all the males in my family were fisherman.
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I've never been in anything very rough, but when I was 12, on a four-week voyage in a liner with stabilisers I was sick for the first two weeks. Then we went across the English Channel in a smaller vessel and I was sick again.
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About 10 years ago I was on a tourist boat for viewing dolphins and such down south of Spain. The weather was shite! The boat was being swung all ways from Sunday, I don't know why they stayed out in the weather. But while the crew passed around black plastic bags for everyone to throw-up in, including my family, I was running around having the time of my life trying to find some money so I could buy a bar of chocolate.So no, I've never once been sea sick in my life.
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Ex Navy dude here. Never tossed my cookies when I was in the Navy, but had one heck of a time while gil-netting salmon up in Alaska when I was about 17. 10-foot swells in Cooke Inlet in a 32-foot round-bottom boat. We were rolling so hard we snapped the smoke-stack off the top of the boat. I had a can of pineapple for breakfast on the way out from Kenai River...it came back up pink a couple hours later. Then proceeded to the dry-heave level...we were having a boat-load of fun!
It's always worse when you've been at sea for awhile because as the ship burns fuel it is also losing some of its ballast, which then makes it tend to bob around like a cork. I was on an FFG out of Long Beach once when we got down to only 30% fuel...at that point, half the crew was hurling over the side.
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Oh god, you just reminded me of this whale watching Tour my fella and I took down on the Kenai, this family, Father, Mother, and two little boys were on it right. The mother is sitting in her chair completely sick off her ass, just throwing up every five minutes, and the husband keeps bringing her more food! So, the little boys are running around everywhere, doing what little boys do, and next thing you know, projectile throwing up across the inside of the boat. Just Every where. The other little boy sees this, and instantly throws up as well while the father is running around with his MEGA ZOOM camera, comes in, cleans it up, gets them all food, and goes back out to take more pictures, that is, till the little boys throw up again.
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That sounds loverly! I haven't thrown up since I was very small, and thats only because I was very very sick. Since then I don't think I've had anything worse than a bad cold.
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I honestly.... couldn't stop laughing. I missed a few humpbacks because I was laughing so hard.
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i never got seasick but i had the swaying thing going in the shower. we (me, my dad, Ryan and my uncles) went out deep sea fishing and i sat up at top and i guess bad weather was coming or something. i dk and i forgot wut my uncle told me to why the waves were like they were. but the waves were like swooshing the boat from side to side. i mean i could reach my hand out and touch the water it was swaying so much...(actually i did that's how i know i could and my dad yelled at me..) but yea well when we got back to our condo i was like swaying in the shower. i thought it was cool.
i dk.. might be cuz i was brought up in the water liek brought up with horses and bikes. we had that condo and one in Florida.. my uncle till Katrina always lived on our coast. so every summer we whent to either their or Florida...sometimes both pending on the show season tho.
I miss living on the coast *pouts* I want to go to the beach!! *slams fist* -
Are you working on a Scripps boat? No, I'm on a Gov't job/ship. We're off Nor Cal. The seas are pretty calm now but I heard from the crew that it's supposed to be worse going back probably becasue there is a good storm off Alaska right now.I'm leary of going off the pills based on what I've seen from the others onboard. I really don't even know if I needed them in the first place. Funny thing, after our 1 day cruise with bad seas back in Dec, I got home the night after we docked and that night when I went to bed everything started rocking in my head like I was drunk and having the spins. That was the first time I started getting queasy. We'll see if it happens again. No doubt it will. It's bizarre how it has the opposite effect when you get back to solid ground.
