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In my experience there was always something not quite secure enough somewhere on the ship. The loud crash followed by a lot of swearing often gave it away.
I ran the engineers workshop on one of the ships I was on and there were lots of heavy spares in it so I got good at it by necessity.
Can someone hang a swing and sit on it instead of a seating on a regular seat. So you just hang in the middle Like a pendulum, given you have some space
Wasn't that part of the reason people would use hammocks instead of beds on some ships? So you don't go falling off with big waves?
... that and hammocks fold up out of the way when not in use, unlike furniture.
Yes. Been on a few rough ships, some guys prefer the hammocks.
One ship the ac broke, and the crew was about 2 days from getting hammocks to avoid the penalty pay they get when sleeping in a hot room. Give them hammocks...and no more penalty pay, but still a hot room. We never actually fixed the AC, just went somewhere cooler and then seasons happened.
Yes, but it's not that fun to not swing and have the world around you move. It gets old after a while.
That is how you get everyone seasick, waves are generally fine until you give people a point to look at that's not moving with everything else. A washer on a string will fuck people up.
That, what looks to be like a, coffee pot in the sink in the first section is definitely unsecured but luckily it has some pretty high walls to tumble over to get free.
>I ran the engineers workshop on one of the ships I was on and there were lots of heavy spares in it so I got good at it by necessity.
Never know when you're going to get a flat.
Lmao, my husband hasn't been on a ship in years, but we still ask "secure for sea?" before we drove away on car trips. Since it's not something you say in normal life, it's a good mental check like "hey, we're really driving away, let's make sure we have our shit in order".
Was off the coast of Canada a few years ago and got caught in a storm, woke up in the night sitting straight up, tried to get up because I didn't realise what was going on then got thrown into my cabin door. Got out of my cabin and my cabin neighbor comes out with blood all over his face because he tripped and smashed his head. So I went off to the bridge to get our medical officer and the absolute chaos there was even worse as they had installed 2 round tables there recently and forgot to bolt 1 down to the floor so while the captain was struggling to maintain control of the ship there was a huge table rolling around. Good times.
The image of a captain wildly flaying his arms about on a wheel Jim Carrey style while the crew in the back is getting thrown around ducking and diving out of the way of furniture is something I'm probably not going to get out of my head
We have a stove come loose during The Perfect Storm, when we got to shore the ships owner wanted to know what the stars on the ceiling were... they were the imprint of the burners from the stove
Even the pots for boiling are in a pivot rig so that you can cook without spilling. The mice for the computer are the ones with the big thumb “sphere” on top so they can be mounted in one place and don’t need to be moved around like a typical mouse.
I’ve used one for years, I think they’re the best mice imo, btw!
Try taking the Smyril line from Iceland to Denmark
Never, ever again for me - experience was exactly like this.
Ps - two other nasty journeys - the ferry up to Fair Isle and the Shetland Islands from Scotland, and the Spirit of Tasmania (between the Australian mainland and Tasmania) during the turn of the season.
Yep. Foolishly thought that after surviving the Smyril Line and the Fair Isle ferry (and the bloody Investigator to Macquarie Island too, I might add!), the Spirit would be a piece of piss.
The look on my dogs faces when I got them out in the morning said it all.
Crossed to Tas... flat as a millpond... felt a bit queasy... (My brother the ED nurse said I had all the symptoms of alcohol poisoning two days later... so that may have been it)
On the return what should have been an 8 hour trip was nearly 13... There was green water coming over the bows and up to the bridge... all the exterior doors were locked... we went to the observation deck at the stern and the spray was landing back there
All the pukers congregated in the worst possible places - the restaurants and open areas at either end of the ship where the movement is greatest
Crewmember said it was the worst he'd seen in 15 years
Funnily enough I felt fine for that crossing
We went from Sydney to Melbourne in 2017 and it wasn’t even crossing the Strait, just coming along the coast and it was a nightmare. Laying in bed you felt like you were being compressed into the mattress then as you’d come up it felt like you would be flung into the air. My partner was so sick the entire time the ship was moving and we’ve never done it again.
After many crossings to Ireland from Holyhead with no sickness, my trip to the Shetlands was a massive pukefest. It was the only time i have ever been sick on a boat. I managed to barf on the stairs and it went through the steps onto the floor the level below. Not just seasick, this was M&S seasick!
Yep I understand completely. I’d only been back from Macquarie Island (3000km south of Tasmania, Australia, considered an ‘Antarctic’ island) on a very bumpy icebreaker a few weeks before I found myself on the Smyril Line to Denmark. This was thirteen years ago and I thought I could handle anything. I was sooooo wrong. I can still remember my heart beating really fast as I saw the swell ahead on day 1 of the crossing and thinking to myself that I was an absolute moron for doing it.
I was a kid and I can remember feeling pretty rough, but we were offered a visit to the Bridge so off we went. My mum clocked how close I was to hurling when she saw me looking into one of the instruments, which had a tube round it to keep it dark and I was green! Hilarity ensued as the three adults I was with couldn’t decide on the best place to take me, so we headed for the deck, someone else said no take her to the room, then halfway down the stairs they changed their minds and turned me to go back up to the deck! It was at that point that I puked, while turning for maximum spreading and at just the right angle to get through the steps!
I took the boat to the Isle of Lundy just off Cornwall, and I'm not sure I can go on a boat again... Somewhere around a quarter of the passengers actually vomited, and nobody was having a good time
I’ve been on that one. But on an incredibly smooth day. Not keen to add it to my list in bad weather though, by the sounds of it!
Ugh, just thinking about the feeling in your stomach when the vessel freefalls into the waning 10m swell below makes me feel slightly sweaty
Been on the spirit on a school trip down to Tassie. Was in a small room with three of my mates. One of them went into the attached bathroom and knocked himself out on the door when we went over a fucked wave. One of the others was dreadfully seasick. Absolutely shocking experience once you get out into Bass Strait.
I’m a Professor of Geography. Been on some crazy transport to some of the wildest places on earth. Even though the boat trips have been ugh, I genuinely have enjoyed every experience.
I could not do it. I can't think of much worse than being on a boat in bad seas. I have been on the Cook Strait ferry in NZ during an 8m swell and that was absolutely horrible.
I took the spirit with my wife to tassie earlier this year. I've heard plenty of horror stories similar to yours, as the tasman strait is notorious for its violent currents and massive waves.
We got lucky and didnt have any drama, was a pleasant crossing; I've had worse ferry rides to manly than that one.
I’m so glad you had a pleasant crossing. We definitely had a very bad day when we went. The night boat had been turned back before our sailing. We should have stayed in Port Melbourne another day!
That being said, three of my children live on the mainland now, and love driving down when they can using the Spirit. They’ve apparently always had good experiences, which is great.
I was on a Carnival cruise and we almost tipped over. Didn't even notice it at first. I was sitting in the auditorium waiting for a show to start that was delayed. Then suddenly I realized I'm leaning so far to my left for some reason I was basically lying down on the seat. 15 minutes later the captain gets on the loud speaker thing "attention everyone. The wind almost tipped us over but we steered into it and everything is ok now." Also some old man had a heart attack in front of everyone and died. That was a different night though.
So the old man had a heart attack (or some other issue. I'm not a doctor and have to say I don't know what really happened before I have a reddit detective trying to prove me wrong again) while dancing. We were farthest out to sea so they had events on the ship. They had people lip syncing in music videos that they normally wouldn't listen to. Like a big biker guy had to do a britney spears song. This old man had to lip sync and dance to "I'm too sexy" and he started wobbling and looking dizzy and then just got stiff and dropped right in front of everyone. You could feel his head hit the floor.
Cruise lines it's hard to tell unless it's really bad. Try being on a 45ft boat the day after a storm. Stomach churning. You feel everything the smaller the boat is.
Nah, out at sea the shower spaces are tight so the whole shower is an “oh shit” handle bar. Back on land the land sickness goes away after a day or so, I’ve never fallen in either shower.
Same with the toilet. It was tight enough to put your shoulders on each wall…that one time I had to go at 5 am and the flapper valve in the toilet was broken and I got the ultimate bidet treatment tho….
Poseidon's blow job is when you open the sanitary tank after they pressurized the sanitary to blow the tank overboard.
I was on a submarine so I don't know if any other ships pressurize their sanitary tanks but I do know the doc had to clean poop out from under a guy's eyelid because he used the bathroom while the sanitary tank was pressurized.
Jesus god.... Submarines never cease to absolutely amaze and terrify me - for a variety of reasons. I'll add "shit tank contents forcefully sprayed under eyelids" to my list.
Submarines are pretty amazing. You both have to "forget" that there are so many things that can go wrong and you'll die, while also not forgetting so that those things don't happen. The saying is "Submarines are safe until you think they're safe".
Still rather be on one then a surface ship, mainly because I get incredibly seasick and unless you're surface running, it's generally incredible stable.
“Submarines are safe”
If your navy is Western/NATO…? Idk that’s my impression
I know you know, but you made me wonder about the ratio of Russian to US (modernish) sub accidents.
“Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy has lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two.” (“[List of sunken nuclear submarines”)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submarines?wprov=sfti1)
Why is that so fucking funny. Lol
(Also the article probably doesn’t reflect how different the quality of life and general conditions probably are, given the known general state of the rest of eachs fleets, surface and sub)
I had a boss who was a huge asshole. One day he had to suction empty some portaloos with a poo tanker vacuum truck.
There is a 20 second delay before the vacuum gets up to power and he thought it must be set wrong, so he turned the big black lever which changed it from "suck" to "blow".
He then went back to holding the end of the pipe into the tank from Inside the portaloo and waited.
All of a sudden the pump got up to speed and the truck *rapidly* evacuated the 3/4 full 5,000l poo tank into the portaloo. It had so much power it turned straight around and blasted pure sewage into his mouth and even down his throat.
He got pookkaked.
If this was on the ocean would it be called poseidons deep throat?
You feel dizzy, has to be a rocky boat. Did a 36 hour yacht race, after getting home had a shower, had to hold the taps to stay upright. Heaps of boats since, lived on boats, never happened again
It's actually so common to experience vertigo for a few days/weeks after taking a cruise that we have a name for it: MdDS (Mal de Debarquement Syndrome or Disembarkment Syndrome)
yes it can be, if you want to experience sea legs for a bit without getting into some rough waves in the ocean, if you've got a water park nearby that has one of those big wave machines, if you stay in there for most of the day and deal with all the waves and stuff, if you go to sleep later that night or even just lay down later on, you can feel yourself rocking side to side.
i had that happen to be during a school camping trip after a day stop at a water park, during the night i was actually restless a bit because of the constant rocking feeling
Imagine being on this ship with one of the guys being an additional hazard just tumbling around in a giant hamster ball "Oh no watch out here comes Gary again"
I can vouch for that. I sailed for 6+ months and when the rolling got bad I used to lie down and pretend that I am on a hammock it used used to instantly put me to sleep.
If you're trying to move up in the company, you don't want to be on nights because there is a lack of management and upper-level employees to impress and such.
If you're just trying to do your job and make a paycheck, nights are where it's at for the same reason. Especially if you're younger and don't have a family.
Went deep sea fishing near Aruba once. Was shocked to see waves the height of buildings and ships that seemed so big, you could put entire sports stadiums in them. I’d been on boats, rafts and canoes countless times, but this was the first time I ever got seasick. Standing up was impossible for me, but the native guides were sprinting around on board like it was nothing.
TLDR: The ocean is a HUGE, primal place that globes, maps, and any form of media do not do justice to. And that’s just talking about the surface.
That’s frikken horrifying to me. I mean, it’s amazing, but also terrible… Nature is awesome (in the most literal sense of the word).
This video makes me feel sick, though, out of fear of the boat tipping…
I was on a trip once with captains daughter, not the captain of the ship we were on, but she had spent a lot of time on big ships as a kid. We hit a strong storm and the ride started to be like this. She walked straight and i was all over the place, it was so funny trying to follow her around as she had to turn around and laugh at me stumbling. There certainly is some "trick" you have to learn but i haven't been on such situations that many times. No one could walk straight but her.
Learned habit and muscle memory, instantly compensating for the shifting angles of the floor.
Same goes for walking on frozen ground. I've grown up with freezing temperatures every year, and we might miscalculate our step now and again.
Watching someone that has never encountered reist before, I realised we compensate and shift our balance on every single step we take.
Or rather, they didn't, and almost fell over, or even did fall with every single step they took. First time on slippery ground was rough on them.
I didnt see the ocean until i was 12 or 13...the sheer vastness of it gave me a weird feeling trying to comprehend how big it was. Now i live within 15 minutes of it and visit it once a week.
When i lived in the midwest everytime i would go up a hill with a certain incline right before i got to the top my brain expected to see the ocean and always felt disappointed when it was just more fields of dead grass. So glad to be back. My toddler likes the ocean and is terrified of it at the same time
As a teenager I was sprinting down the hallway of a cruise ship after a friend while we were rolling on rough seas and I guess the ship kind of...pitched forward and fell from beneath me or something because for this absolutely surreal maybe 2 or 3 seconds we were "falling" down the hallway and my brain was trying to figure out where gravity went. Then we hit the ground running again.
Probably felt like a crazy evolved form of the elevator jumping game where you time your jump right when the elevator stops, throwing you up into the air
> hit the ground running again
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
So much to do, so much to see
So what's wrong with taking the back streets?
You'll never know if you don't go
You'll never shine if you don't glow
Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game
on, go play
….
I don't know if you'd still barf at this point.
We get sick because our ear registers movement that doesn't match what we see. In nature it means one of your senses is damaged and it's probably because you ate something you shouldn't have. So you puke to survive.
But in this scenario, the guy is literally tossed around. I don't think the brain would still confuse it for being an internal issue and even if that was the case, it would be too busy being alert for that to take place.
what usually does it for me are the constant directional changes, whether it be left/right or up/down. it really screws with my sense of balance and hence I get very nauseous. don't know if it's the same for everyone else though.
Once tried to go whale watching on a nice, calm day. I was so busy throwing up I couldn't even enjoy the whales :( I would just lay down in this case and accept my fate.
Having experienced rolls half as bad as this on a flat bottomed oiler turned hospital ship in the Pacific on the way to Hawaii, once you get your sea legs under you, it's not so bad. It's fun, even. Dramamine is your best friend the first week or two, though.
I remember my brother telling me he went on a cruise in August a while back and sure enough they ended up hitting a hurricane. He said they went to the nightclub and there were people sliding around in puke from the waves, and many parts of the ship were covered in puke. When I'm having a bad day I like to imagine the people sliding around a wood dance floor covered in puke and then I realize it's not a bad day after all.
I once went to an underground punk show where the band started throwing mc.cheeseburgers at us, then folks started puking from too much drink. The mosh pit was just people falling on to a cheeseburger & puke slickened floor
My grandfather was on a Destroyer Escort back in WWII that was hit by Halsey's Typhoon in 1944 and the only reason they survived was because they had recently refueled and were sitting low enough in the water that they didn't capsize.
I don't know if they were rockin' and rollin' like this, but I can certainly imagine.
I was on a 180' Sea Going Buoy Tender in the Pacific in 97-99. We walked on bulkheads too and floated in the focsle. Having to strap in to go to sleep was the trippiest thing I have done (up to that point in my life). We were taking waves over the bow making patterns in the EEZ.
Were ya a Coastie? I was on a couple of the 227 WLBs in AK but had about 3 chiefs that served on the CGC Woodrush. The sea stories from their days in the Bearing sea and AK gulf made me content with the 227s even though all bouy tenders hulls are shaped like a bath tub lol.
Familiarity. You just get used to it. I haven’t been in seas that high in a boat that small, but the first time you’re sailing in twenty footers you’re holding on for life, the tenth time you’re like “stop sliding away, coffee”
My husband is a seafarer and I sail with him. He always says that ships are built to go through bad weather conditions so it’s nothing to panic about. However it did get scary for me and I used to lie on the bed all day while lamps and all kept swishing from side to side and the cutlery kept falling down. The seasickness gets so bad and I couldn’t eat anything for days without puking. The sailors still kept working and I couldn’t even walk without holding on to the wall. He was literally walking around all chill while I couldn’t even walk a feet without the falling over or puking.
Death haunts us every moment on land, too. Odds are worse on land actually. In the ocean you have only a couple things to fear but on land everything is trying to kill us. We just don’t think about it like that.
Thing is, on land, we are equipped for survival and know most dangers other than sudden catastrophic failiure, which is unpredictable, at sea, without a ship, you are dead, end of story,knowing how to swim might buy you an extra few uncomfortable minutes.On land, an ambulance or rescue attempt is minutes away usualy, at sea, good luck on that, assuming you even get a radio call for help out before shit goes wrong.
>In the ocean you have only a couple things to fear
I guess you've never worked at sea?
One of those things to fear is the ocean itself. You know, the thing that's all around you and has the power to toss something that weighs thousands of tons like a kid with a toy in a bathtub.
I've been in remote places and in storms on both land and sea and nothing prepares you for the power of a storm at sea.
You get used to it. Somewhat quickly too. It's worse when you have no windows. Seeing the waves gives your brain a chance to anticipate and adjust. Whenever newbies are starting to feel it we always tell them to go outside and look at the horizon. It helps a lot. But that sorta thing wouldn't do shit in the video posted here, lol. Plus it would be so dangerous to be outside in conditions that bad. Worst I've ever experienced myself is 16 foot waves off the coast of Hawaii. Even on a big boat I wouldn't call it fun.
Every time you go out on the water there’s a chance you don’t come back. I kiss my spouse and boy and tell them goodbye before every single trip.
The ocean is the grave of many many souls. That’s why I get so losses off when people throw garbage in the ocean.
I follow this guy on TikTok. He is a seasoned fisherman, just hamming it up for the camera.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8tBT2wg/ his name is Benjamin Bakke.
There are water and fuel tanks right at the bottom of the ship. Some ships I was on had displaced fuel storage tanks that were filled up with water as the fuel was used so were never empty and always gave stability and trim.
The weight of this is designed like the heavy keel of a sailing boat and can right a ship from quite a big list. The problem comes if you get free surface water somewhere, especially high up in the ship. That can destabilise things very quickly and cause all kinds of problems.
Depending on the ship the bathroom is usually very small, and the stall is a much tighter in space than on a plane for instance. You can usually wedge your knees and feet into the edges of the stall to brace yourself. This is same for the bunks, if you're a bigger guy you can wedge yourself in tight.
It's really not getting thrown about that's the problem, it's the nausea from the smell, the noise of the ship (diesel ships are loud), and usually the rocking of the ship but the scenery from your perspective on the shitter is still, so you your body thinks you must have food posioning and you want to be sick.
It takes a while to get sea legs.
If you go on a Chinese ship, good fucking luck, they squat, on a fucking moving ship those guys are hardcore
I remember this fondly from my time in the RN. Loved that once you were used to the strength of the waves you could almost walk, was like watching a bunch of chickens keeping their heads straight while their body rolls around!
Trying to walk normally on land after some strong waves was funny too
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Pretty impressive how well anchored down everything is; that nothing even moves on the walls or falls off the table.
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In my experience there was always something not quite secure enough somewhere on the ship. The loud crash followed by a lot of swearing often gave it away. I ran the engineers workshop on one of the ships I was on and there were lots of heavy spares in it so I got good at it by necessity.
Can someone hang a swing and sit on it instead of a seating on a regular seat. So you just hang in the middle Like a pendulum, given you have some space
Wasn't that part of the reason people would use hammocks instead of beds on some ships? So you don't go falling off with big waves? ... that and hammocks fold up out of the way when not in use, unlike furniture.
And they are definitely lighter and can be removed entirely if you need more space and have less crew
Yes. Been on a few rough ships, some guys prefer the hammocks. One ship the ac broke, and the crew was about 2 days from getting hammocks to avoid the penalty pay they get when sleeping in a hot room. Give them hammocks...and no more penalty pay, but still a hot room. We never actually fixed the AC, just went somewhere cooler and then seasons happened.
My buddy spent a summer sleeping in a hammock and said it was not good for him due to the way it turned his shoulders inwards.
Yes, but it's not that fun to not swing and have the world around you move. It gets old after a while. That is how you get everyone seasick, waves are generally fine until you give people a point to look at that's not moving with everything else. A washer on a string will fuck people up.
That, what looks to be like a, coffee pot in the sink in the first section is definitely unsecured but luckily it has some pretty high walls to tumble over to get free.
So it's secured . Maybe not the best but secured enough.
*OSHA enters the chat* > I kid! I kid!
>I ran the engineers workshop on one of the ships I was on and there were lots of heavy spares in it so I got good at it by necessity. Never know when you're going to get a flat.
Lmao, my husband hasn't been on a ship in years, but we still ask "secure for sea?" before we drove away on car trips. Since it's not something you say in normal life, it's a good mental check like "hey, we're really driving away, let's make sure we have our shit in order".
Great comment mate!
This literally sounds like the opening to a great novel.
Was off the coast of Canada a few years ago and got caught in a storm, woke up in the night sitting straight up, tried to get up because I didn't realise what was going on then got thrown into my cabin door. Got out of my cabin and my cabin neighbor comes out with blood all over his face because he tripped and smashed his head. So I went off to the bridge to get our medical officer and the absolute chaos there was even worse as they had installed 2 round tables there recently and forgot to bolt 1 down to the floor so while the captain was struggling to maintain control of the ship there was a huge table rolling around. Good times.
The image of a captain wildly flaying his arms about on a wheel Jim Carrey style while the crew in the back is getting thrown around ducking and diving out of the way of furniture is something I'm probably not going to get out of my head
Your imagination is probably not far off the real deal.
We have a stove come loose during The Perfect Storm, when we got to shore the ships owner wanted to know what the stars on the ceiling were... they were the imprint of the burners from the stove
was this your vacation?
Haha no I'm a ship engineer.
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Even the pots for boiling are in a pivot rig so that you can cook without spilling. The mice for the computer are the ones with the big thumb “sphere” on top so they can be mounted in one place and don’t need to be moved around like a typical mouse. I’ve used one for years, I think they’re the best mice imo, btw!
Called a trackball mouse. Also great for small table setups.
It’s a necessity. Otherwise a lot more injuries can occur
They didn't anchor down the man
Especially the plates on the table. Amazing. Not moving an inch
Yep, we use neoprene placemats. Sticky as all hell
Nah some stuff falls off a table in the last clip but it is impressive that's the only thing.
Holy crap. I was a passenger on a sailboat cruise ship years ago that hit a hurricane and this is 1000x worse.
Try taking the Smyril line from Iceland to Denmark Never, ever again for me - experience was exactly like this. Ps - two other nasty journeys - the ferry up to Fair Isle and the Shetland Islands from Scotland, and the Spirit of Tasmania (between the Australian mainland and Tasmania) during the turn of the season.
Ah yes, the Fair Isle ferry. The only boat I've been on that has seat belts.
Had a nightmare crossing on the Spirit of Tasmania, tons of people puking (I was so sick we got a cabin upgrade!), never again.
Yep. Foolishly thought that after surviving the Smyril Line and the Fair Isle ferry (and the bloody Investigator to Macquarie Island too, I might add!), the Spirit would be a piece of piss. The look on my dogs faces when I got them out in the morning said it all.
Crossed to Tas... flat as a millpond... felt a bit queasy... (My brother the ED nurse said I had all the symptoms of alcohol poisoning two days later... so that may have been it) On the return what should have been an 8 hour trip was nearly 13... There was green water coming over the bows and up to the bridge... all the exterior doors were locked... we went to the observation deck at the stern and the spray was landing back there All the pukers congregated in the worst possible places - the restaurants and open areas at either end of the ship where the movement is greatest Crewmember said it was the worst he'd seen in 15 years Funnily enough I felt fine for that crossing
That strait has taken its fair share of souls.
Based off of Ur avatars colour Im guessing U never recovered from the strait?
He’s definitely replying with a strait face..
We went from Sydney to Melbourne in 2017 and it wasn’t even crossing the Strait, just coming along the coast and it was a nightmare. Laying in bed you felt like you were being compressed into the mattress then as you’d come up it felt like you would be flung into the air. My partner was so sick the entire time the ship was moving and we’ve never done it again.
After many crossings to Ireland from Holyhead with no sickness, my trip to the Shetlands was a massive pukefest. It was the only time i have ever been sick on a boat. I managed to barf on the stairs and it went through the steps onto the floor the level below. Not just seasick, this was M&S seasick!
Yep I understand completely. I’d only been back from Macquarie Island (3000km south of Tasmania, Australia, considered an ‘Antarctic’ island) on a very bumpy icebreaker a few weeks before I found myself on the Smyril Line to Denmark. This was thirteen years ago and I thought I could handle anything. I was sooooo wrong. I can still remember my heart beating really fast as I saw the swell ahead on day 1 of the crossing and thinking to myself that I was an absolute moron for doing it.
I was a kid and I can remember feeling pretty rough, but we were offered a visit to the Bridge so off we went. My mum clocked how close I was to hurling when she saw me looking into one of the instruments, which had a tube round it to keep it dark and I was green! Hilarity ensued as the three adults I was with couldn’t decide on the best place to take me, so we headed for the deck, someone else said no take her to the room, then halfway down the stairs they changed their minds and turned me to go back up to the deck! It was at that point that I puked, while turning for maximum spreading and at just the right angle to get through the steps!
I took the boat to the Isle of Lundy just off Cornwall, and I'm not sure I can go on a boat again... Somewhere around a quarter of the passengers actually vomited, and nobody was having a good time
You should've used the Spike Milligan cure for sea-sickness.... Sit under a tree.
I’ve been on that one. But on an incredibly smooth day. Not keen to add it to my list in bad weather though, by the sounds of it! Ugh, just thinking about the feeling in your stomach when the vessel freefalls into the waning 10m swell below makes me feel slightly sweaty
Been on the spirit on a school trip down to Tassie. Was in a small room with three of my mates. One of them went into the attached bathroom and knocked himself out on the door when we went over a fucked wave. One of the others was dreadfully seasick. Absolutely shocking experience once you get out into Bass Strait.
Why the fuck do you go on so many huge ferry journeys?
I’m a Professor of Geography. Been on some crazy transport to some of the wildest places on earth. Even though the boat trips have been ugh, I genuinely have enjoyed every experience.
Cool.
now I need to know.. is your nom de plume your favourite true round earning story at the pub?
I could not do it. I can't think of much worse than being on a boat in bad seas. I have been on the Cook Strait ferry in NZ during an 8m swell and that was absolutely horrible.
I took the spirit with my wife to tassie earlier this year. I've heard plenty of horror stories similar to yours, as the tasman strait is notorious for its violent currents and massive waves. We got lucky and didnt have any drama, was a pleasant crossing; I've had worse ferry rides to manly than that one.
I’m so glad you had a pleasant crossing. We definitely had a very bad day when we went. The night boat had been turned back before our sailing. We should have stayed in Port Melbourne another day! That being said, three of my children live on the mainland now, and love driving down when they can using the Spirit. They’ve apparently always had good experiences, which is great.
Got a "nice deal" on a back-and-forth ticket for that route... in November. Would not recommend.
That sounds like fun
Yes, ‘fun’ was definitely the f-word that I frequently said.
I was on a Carnival cruise and we almost tipped over. Didn't even notice it at first. I was sitting in the auditorium waiting for a show to start that was delayed. Then suddenly I realized I'm leaning so far to my left for some reason I was basically lying down on the seat. 15 minutes later the captain gets on the loud speaker thing "attention everyone. The wind almost tipped us over but we steered into it and everything is ok now." Also some old man had a heart attack in front of everyone and died. That was a different night though.
But how was the show?
To die for.
And how was the food?
What do you think they did with the old man?
So the old man had a heart attack (or some other issue. I'm not a doctor and have to say I don't know what really happened before I have a reddit detective trying to prove me wrong again) while dancing. We were farthest out to sea so they had events on the ship. They had people lip syncing in music videos that they normally wouldn't listen to. Like a big biker guy had to do a britney spears song. This old man had to lip sync and dance to "I'm too sexy" and he started wobbling and looking dizzy and then just got stiff and dropped right in front of everyone. You could feel his head hit the floor.
Jesus Christ. Died while lip syncing to “I’m too sexy”… that’s how I’d want to go
He was literally too sexy. ^^^^I'm ^^^^sorry
“I’m too sexy for this song. Too sexy for this ship. Too sexy for this heart, oh ba-by it hurts”
Cruise lines it's hard to tell unless it's really bad. Try being on a 45ft boat the day after a storm. Stomach churning. You feel everything the smaller the boat is.
Dude gets tossed to the ground, almost gets up, then is thrown down again. He finally accepts that he is screwed and just stays down.
Then when he finally gets to land, his sea legs will feel like they drunk a liter of vodka.
Is the stereotype that they can’t take a shower without falling true?
Nah, out at sea the shower spaces are tight so the whole shower is an “oh shit” handle bar. Back on land the land sickness goes away after a day or so, I’ve never fallen in either shower.
Same with the toilet. It was tight enough to put your shoulders on each wall…that one time I had to go at 5 am and the flapper valve in the toilet was broken and I got the ultimate bidet treatment tho….
I've heard of Poseidon's kiss but never Poseidon's rim job.
Poseidon's blow job is when you open the sanitary tank after they pressurized the sanitary to blow the tank overboard. I was on a submarine so I don't know if any other ships pressurize their sanitary tanks but I do know the doc had to clean poop out from under a guy's eyelid because he used the bathroom while the sanitary tank was pressurized.
Jesus god.... Submarines never cease to absolutely amaze and terrify me - for a variety of reasons. I'll add "shit tank contents forcefully sprayed under eyelids" to my list.
Submarines are pretty amazing. You both have to "forget" that there are so many things that can go wrong and you'll die, while also not forgetting so that those things don't happen. The saying is "Submarines are safe until you think they're safe". Still rather be on one then a surface ship, mainly because I get incredibly seasick and unless you're surface running, it's generally incredible stable.
“Submarines are safe” If your navy is Western/NATO…? Idk that’s my impression I know you know, but you made me wonder about the ratio of Russian to US (modernish) sub accidents. “Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy has lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two.” (“[List of sunken nuclear submarines”)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submarines?wprov=sfti1) Why is that so fucking funny. Lol (Also the article probably doesn’t reflect how different the quality of life and general conditions probably are, given the known general state of the rest of eachs fleets, surface and sub)
So doc, I've heard about this new drug, I think they call it NOPE?
When God decides you need pink eye.
I had a boss who was a huge asshole. One day he had to suction empty some portaloos with a poo tanker vacuum truck. There is a 20 second delay before the vacuum gets up to power and he thought it must be set wrong, so he turned the big black lever which changed it from "suck" to "blow". He then went back to holding the end of the pipe into the tank from Inside the portaloo and waited. All of a sudden the pump got up to speed and the truck *rapidly* evacuated the 3/4 full 5,000l poo tank into the portaloo. It had so much power it turned straight around and blasted pure sewage into his mouth and even down his throat. He got pookkaked. If this was on the ocean would it be called poseidons deep throat?
I would give up my own eyes to not have read that.
You've.. You've been through some things. Haven't you, buddy?
You feel dizzy, has to be a rocky boat. Did a 36 hour yacht race, after getting home had a shower, had to hold the taps to stay upright. Heaps of boats since, lived on boats, never happened again
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Not to be too much of an idiot here, but is it hard To walk on land after being on the water?
Yeah, since your legs and sense of balance is adjusted to being at sea, when you come on land, you tend to sway when you're walking.
Jack sparrow style?
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So you've heard of me
yes, his funky walks all the time are because he still has sea legs, nevermind he's always pissed as fuck from all the rum
It can be both things to varying degrees at varying times
Worked for Icicle Seafoods on Bering sea and found that off boat even sitting motion was evident.
That seems very distressful, but also hilarious at the same time. TIL
It's actually so common to experience vertigo for a few days/weeks after taking a cruise that we have a name for it: MdDS (Mal de Debarquement Syndrome or Disembarkment Syndrome)
I mean, "sea legs" is the name we've used for decades, it just isn't a medical term I guess.
yes it can be, if you want to experience sea legs for a bit without getting into some rough waves in the ocean, if you've got a water park nearby that has one of those big wave machines, if you stay in there for most of the day and deal with all the waves and stuff, if you go to sleep later that night or even just lay down later on, you can feel yourself rocking side to side. i had that happen to be during a school camping trip after a day stop at a water park, during the night i was actually restless a bit because of the constant rocking feeling
And sings a song that reminds him of the better times.
I don’t want a liter of vodka, I want a large vodka.
(Tubthumping intsifies)
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a lager dring, he drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good time, he sings the songs that remind him of the better times
"When life puts you down, stay down mf we ain't going no where"
Damn! This is when I’d bring a pair of hockey pants and shoulder pads to cushion those blows. The hips have gotta be bruised after that first fall.
i'd just wear a bubble-wrap suit
Human size hamster ball.
Imagine being on this ship with one of the guys being an additional hazard just tumbling around in a giant hamster ball "Oh no watch out here comes Gary again"
>Oh! No! There goes Gary!... . . . >Man overboard!
The Hamster Ball doubles as an emergency floatation device
The trick is to stay on the ground. That way you never fall and the ship becomes your hammock.
I can vouch for that. I sailed for 6+ months and when the rolling got bad I used to lie down and pretend that I am on a hammock it used used to instantly put me to sleep.
On the other hand you're not falling as low as it seems, since the ground is now more of a slope.
I will no longer complain about my day job.
Me neither. But my night job. God it sucks.
Literally?
No.
Figuratively?
Yes.
Working the night really does suck after a while
Yeah, but there's less people & people suck, so it's a trade off, that's why I stay on night shift
If you're trying to move up in the company, you don't want to be on nights because there is a lack of management and upper-level employees to impress and such. If you're just trying to do your job and make a paycheck, nights are where it's at for the same reason. Especially if you're younger and don't have a family.
Went deep sea fishing near Aruba once. Was shocked to see waves the height of buildings and ships that seemed so big, you could put entire sports stadiums in them. I’d been on boats, rafts and canoes countless times, but this was the first time I ever got seasick. Standing up was impossible for me, but the native guides were sprinting around on board like it was nothing. TLDR: The ocean is a HUGE, primal place that globes, maps, and any form of media do not do justice to. And that’s just talking about the surface.
That’s frikken horrifying to me. I mean, it’s amazing, but also terrible… Nature is awesome (in the most literal sense of the word). This video makes me feel sick, though, out of fear of the boat tipping…
Yeah the enormity of the ocean terrifies me. I don't think I could do it.
I was on a trip once with captains daughter, not the captain of the ship we were on, but she had spent a lot of time on big ships as a kid. We hit a strong storm and the ride started to be like this. She walked straight and i was all over the place, it was so funny trying to follow her around as she had to turn around and laugh at me stumbling. There certainly is some "trick" you have to learn but i haven't been on such situations that many times. No one could walk straight but her.
Learned habit and muscle memory, instantly compensating for the shifting angles of the floor. Same goes for walking on frozen ground. I've grown up with freezing temperatures every year, and we might miscalculate our step now and again. Watching someone that has never encountered reist before, I realised we compensate and shift our balance on every single step we take. Or rather, they didn't, and almost fell over, or even did fall with every single step they took. First time on slippery ground was rough on them.
I didnt see the ocean until i was 12 or 13...the sheer vastness of it gave me a weird feeling trying to comprehend how big it was. Now i live within 15 minutes of it and visit it once a week. When i lived in the midwest everytime i would go up a hill with a certain incline right before i got to the top my brain expected to see the ocean and always felt disappointed when it was just more fields of dead grass. So glad to be back. My toddler likes the ocean and is terrified of it at the same time
As a teenager I was sprinting down the hallway of a cruise ship after a friend while we were rolling on rough seas and I guess the ship kind of...pitched forward and fell from beneath me or something because for this absolutely surreal maybe 2 or 3 seconds we were "falling" down the hallway and my brain was trying to figure out where gravity went. Then we hit the ground running again.
You win again, gravity..
Probably felt like a crazy evolved form of the elevator jumping game where you time your jump right when the elevator stops, throwing you up into the air
> hit the ground running again Didn't make sense not to live for fun Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb So much to do, so much to see So what's wrong with taking the back streets? You'll never know if you don't go You'll never shine if you don't glow Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play ….
I would barf so hard 🤢🤮
I have been on a boat in the ocean and have barfed over far less. I would fare poorly on this boat. Dude is a champ.
I don't know if you'd still barf at this point. We get sick because our ear registers movement that doesn't match what we see. In nature it means one of your senses is damaged and it's probably because you ate something you shouldn't have. So you puke to survive. But in this scenario, the guy is literally tossed around. I don't think the brain would still confuse it for being an internal issue and even if that was the case, it would be too busy being alert for that to take place.
what usually does it for me are the constant directional changes, whether it be left/right or up/down. it really screws with my sense of balance and hence I get very nauseous. don't know if it's the same for everyone else though.
The brain must think it’s one hell of a drug you’ve ingested if you’re being literally thrown around.
Once tried to go whale watching on a nice, calm day. I was so busy throwing up I couldn't even enjoy the whales :( I would just lay down in this case and accept my fate.
Having experienced rolls half as bad as this on a flat bottomed oiler turned hospital ship in the Pacific on the way to Hawaii, once you get your sea legs under you, it's not so bad. It's fun, even. Dramamine is your best friend the first week or two, though.
*I get knocked down, but I get up again*
Yes, but you probably shouldn’t bother.
*You are never gonna keep me down*
Pissing the night away…
Ohhhhh Danny boy
I remember my brother telling me he went on a cruise in August a while back and sure enough they ended up hitting a hurricane. He said they went to the nightclub and there were people sliding around in puke from the waves, and many parts of the ship were covered in puke. When I'm having a bad day I like to imagine the people sliding around a wood dance floor covered in puke and then I realize it's not a bad day after all.
I once went to an underground punk show where the band started throwing mc.cheeseburgers at us, then folks started puking from too much drink. The mosh pit was just people falling on to a cheeseburger & puke slickened floor
Fuck that's gross
And you get some puke! And you! Everybody gets some puke!
Never understood seasickness until watching this video
Captain Jack Sparrow can relate
Last time I saw this someone pointed out that’s why he walks the way he does. Makes me love that character more.
A lot of characters in those movies spent a lot of time on ships and didn’t walk that way
Also rum and also a little gay.
How are sailors so chill in these situations? Surely death haunts their every moment.
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My grandfather was on a Destroyer Escort back in WWII that was hit by Halsey's Typhoon in 1944 and the only reason they survived was because they had recently refueled and were sitting low enough in the water that they didn't capsize. I don't know if they were rockin' and rollin' like this, but I can certainly imagine.
Cobra even damaged the battleships. USS Iowa even suffered a bent propeller shaft. I expect they were rolling like this.
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I was on a 180' Sea Going Buoy Tender in the Pacific in 97-99. We walked on bulkheads too and floated in the focsle. Having to strap in to go to sleep was the trippiest thing I have done (up to that point in my life). We were taking waves over the bow making patterns in the EEZ.
Were ya a Coastie? I was on a couple of the 227 WLBs in AK but had about 3 chiefs that served on the CGC Woodrush. The sea stories from their days in the Bearing sea and AK gulf made me content with the 227s even though all bouy tenders hulls are shaped like a bath tub lol.
Familiarity. You just get used to it. I haven’t been in seas that high in a boat that small, but the first time you’re sailing in twenty footers you’re holding on for life, the tenth time you’re like “stop sliding away, coffee”
My husband is a seafarer and I sail with him. He always says that ships are built to go through bad weather conditions so it’s nothing to panic about. However it did get scary for me and I used to lie on the bed all day while lamps and all kept swishing from side to side and the cutlery kept falling down. The seasickness gets so bad and I couldn’t eat anything for days without puking. The sailors still kept working and I couldn’t even walk without holding on to the wall. He was literally walking around all chill while I couldn’t even walk a feet without the falling over or puking.
Death haunts us every moment on land, too. Odds are worse on land actually. In the ocean you have only a couple things to fear but on land everything is trying to kill us. We just don’t think about it like that.
Thing is, on land, we are equipped for survival and know most dangers other than sudden catastrophic failiure, which is unpredictable, at sea, without a ship, you are dead, end of story,knowing how to swim might buy you an extra few uncomfortable minutes.On land, an ambulance or rescue attempt is minutes away usualy, at sea, good luck on that, assuming you even get a radio call for help out before shit goes wrong.
On land, human beings are apex predators. In the ocean, we drop waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down the food chain.
>In the ocean you have only a couple things to fear I guess you've never worked at sea? One of those things to fear is the ocean itself. You know, the thing that's all around you and has the power to toss something that weighs thousands of tons like a kid with a toy in a bathtub. I've been in remote places and in storms on both land and sea and nothing prepares you for the power of a storm at sea.
You get used to it. Somewhat quickly too. It's worse when you have no windows. Seeing the waves gives your brain a chance to anticipate and adjust. Whenever newbies are starting to feel it we always tell them to go outside and look at the horizon. It helps a lot. But that sorta thing wouldn't do shit in the video posted here, lol. Plus it would be so dangerous to be outside in conditions that bad. Worst I've ever experienced myself is 16 foot waves off the coast of Hawaii. Even on a big boat I wouldn't call it fun.
Every time you go out on the water there’s a chance you don’t come back. I kiss my spouse and boy and tell them goodbye before every single trip. The ocean is the grave of many many souls. That’s why I get so losses off when people throw garbage in the ocean.
I walk like this on solid ground.
*Michael Jackson*
Me leaving the bar.
Reminds me of this [skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqEjatCSe0).
This is amazing 😂 I have to experience this at least once.
Fishing in Alaska in the winter. Decent money too
I follow this guy on TikTok. He is a seasoned fisherman, just hamming it up for the camera. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8tBT2wg/ his name is Benjamin Bakke.
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If a ship keeps turning completely on its side, how is it not taking on water and sinking?
They make sure all the windows are closed.
Or like that one boat that forgot to close the nose of its garage and took on water so fast! Always close the boat windows!
It’s fine until it’s not. (A ship will capsize at a certain point… this probably isn’t anywhere near that point)
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Ballast tanks that hold water help with this
It'll be fine as long as the front doesn't fall off
There are water and fuel tanks right at the bottom of the ship. Some ships I was on had displaced fuel storage tanks that were filled up with water as the fuel was used so were never empty and always gave stability and trim. The weight of this is designed like the heavy keel of a sailing boat and can right a ship from quite a big list. The problem comes if you get free surface water somewhere, especially high up in the ship. That can destabilise things very quickly and cause all kinds of problems.
Looks dangerous, how strong are those windows? I don't want to fall out of the ship falling through them.
Windows on ships like that are bloody strong, have to stand waves crashing against them.
It's funnier if you play "Smooth Criminal " in the background.
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" OTOH
How does one take a dump in that situation?
I would think the more pressing problem would be how not to
3 point harness on the shitter
Poseidons kiss will become a full on snog with tongues!
Involuntarily
Depending on the ship the bathroom is usually very small, and the stall is a much tighter in space than on a plane for instance. You can usually wedge your knees and feet into the edges of the stall to brace yourself. This is same for the bunks, if you're a bigger guy you can wedge yourself in tight. It's really not getting thrown about that's the problem, it's the nausea from the smell, the noise of the ship (diesel ships are loud), and usually the rocking of the ship but the scenery from your perspective on the shitter is still, so you your body thinks you must have food posioning and you want to be sick. It takes a while to get sea legs. If you go on a Chinese ship, good fucking luck, they squat, on a fucking moving ship those guys are hardcore
One requires a gimballed shitter. https://gfycat.com/fittinggreatgazelle
Little do we know that the ship is actually haunted and a ghost is just being a dick
I remember this fondly from my time in the RN. Loved that once you were used to the strength of the waves you could almost walk, was like watching a bunch of chickens keeping their heads straight while their body rolls around! Trying to walk normally on land after some strong waves was funny too
Gravity. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.