Do you guys ever get seasick?

[DivePartner1]

I slowly start builing up with Dramine a day before to saturate, something I learned while crewing sailboats (below deck work in pitching seas--yuk). Take two before bed and you'll go right to sleep!. If seas are high, two an hour or more before departure and no greasy or heavy breakfast. This usually works for me, depending on the sea state and chores.

 

[Rick Murchison]

srkdvr once bubbled...
What is that? Naw so far so good... but it could be that since I am in the Navy and have done 4 cruses it may be out of my system.

Don't you believe it!
I was raised around boats from before I can remember, was taking boats offshore in the Gulf long before I could drive a car. Did 20 in the Navy, and never once got seasick. I knew better than to ever bet anyone that they couldn't make me sick in an airplane, but I figured there was just nothing that could happen on a boat to make me seasick.
Then I learned something. A 65' boat on a crossing from Miami to Bimini in rough seas has just the right cycle to trip my trigger, and I can chum right up there with the best of 'em. The next time I made the crossing on that boat I introduced myself to the wonders of modern medicine - Dramamine is the greatest invention since sliced bread!
Rick

 

[Paul168341]

. A 65' boat on a crossing from Miami to Bimini in rough seas has just the right cycle to trip my trigger

Hmmm, sounds like a Blackbeard's Chummer! My poor wife was sick for 2 days after that crossing. The seas were so rough, we had to go right past Bimini and take shelter behind Andros

Still, she wants to go back That IS a fun trip! :mean:

 

[tchil01]

I could get seasick in a bathtub....

As a mater of fact, my first two boat dives I had to blow off the second dive because I was too busy... blowing chuncks ;-0

Dramamine, Bonine, wrist bands, ginger.. nothing helped until a DM told me about the patch. Now I swear by it and haven't had a problem except when the patch had slipped after a dive and it was foggy with some 3 foot swells. I felt a little woosey, but I got the patch back where it goes and I was fine.


Ty

 

[MSilvia]

Don't forget to avoid the sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit.

DivePartner1 once bubbled...
no greasy or heavy breakfast.

 

[Spectre]

MSilvia once bubbled...
Don't forget to avoid the sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit.

And you looked at me funny when I was removing the sausage from mine!

I'll save my tuckermans ravine story where I had to fight with the folks at burger king to get an egg and cheese biscuit without any meat....

 

[CuriousMe]

I really haven't had a problem. I grew up on the ocean as well....my grandfather owned/ran a charter fishing boat and some of my earliest memories are being plopped in my playpen on the deck <grin>.

Obviously on the ship, there's generally not a lot of movement....but there have been a few times that being in the Caribbean durring hurricane season was an E-ticket ride. I have to confess that we love those nights….we always go up and enjoy the guest areas those nights….since most of the guests are otherwise occupied <grin>.

Truly, I find that the more ship movement there is, the sleepier I am. In fact, one of my hardest things is getting up sea day mornings...my bed just rocks back and forth like a cradle, and I'd love to snooze the day away. Of course sea days are also my busiest.....so that never happens.

All my dives have been boat dives, and I've never had a problem (even on Blackbeard's cross to Bimini)...now I have felt queasy from diesel....but as soon as I get away from the fumes I'm fine.

I know that no one is immune, but I do think that some folks are more susceptible than others….thankfully, I do pretty well.

 

[Rick L]

Hey the fish love those little sausage pieces :yellow:

Rick L

 

[TCDiver1]

Had a similar experience. Spent two weeks TDY, rockin & rollin in the Atlantic, on a Navy Frigate. We're talking peak sea conditions in the forty to fifty foot range, not fun. I don't care how big the boat is, when the swells are higher than your widest beam you are in for the ride of your life! Never ralphed once and guys a lot saltier than i were heavin away on a regular basis. I too, KNEW i was immune to the yack virus.

Fast forward 15 years, fishing on Lake Michigan in wimpy 3 to 5 foot seas. I got so sick if you would have handed me a gun i would have shot myself. Knocked me right on my *ss for a whole day. Hasn't happened since but the experience has given me new empathy for those afflicted on a regular basis

 

[MissAmberDiva]

Rick L once bubbled...
Hey the fish love those little sausage pieces :yellow:

Rick L

They like french fries better!:royal: