Seasick

[android]

Isn't being seasick every time you go out on a boat nature's way of telling you to take up rock climbing or dodgeball as a sport? I'm continually reading about all the puking that takes place on scuba excursion boats and many people admit to doing it again and again.

You were either meant to go to sea or not. Stop fighting it! You really disgust us non-pukers.

I don't know if there is any proof of this, but I tend to believe that if you were raised as a lubber, then you may be more prone to getting seasick.

(I'm not a doctor, and never played one on TV. This is just my observation and opinion)

 

[ScubaFreak]

i was never one to suffer from sea sickness, dunno why, but it's just never got to me.
i wonder what makes some people more succeptable(<--sp) to seasickness..

hmmm....

 

[MSilvia]

I don't know android, I grew up right on the coast and was rated as an able seaman by the local sailing club at age 12. I never had a problem with seasickness until my first 3 week trip fishing for squid off a 140' trawler. Right around the third day, my guts had had enough, and decided they were going overboard with or without me. It went away after about 16 hours, and has only recurred since then in the presence of diesel exhaust and/or after greasy breakfast sandwiches.

Bottom line, I think it has more to do with aggravating factors than it does with "lubberness", although some folks clearly are more prone to it than others. FWIW though, being able to go out for a day on a dive boat without getting seasick doesn't mean you don't get seasick.

 

[ScubaFreak]

FWIW though, being able to go out for a day on a dive boat without getting seasick doesn't mean you don't get seasick.

this is very true...eek.. :sick:

 

[android]

Greasy breakfast sandwiches flavored with diesel exhaust could make anyone puke, even on dry land! I'm talking about the dramamine poppin', wrist bead wearing hard cases. Some of them even insist on taking cruises.

 

[starrtent]

I grew up on Maine waters. Dinghy to sloop to whaler, did not matter, no problems. I sailed a 35' Hinckley from Martha's Vineyard to Hallifax, as cook. We left on the tail end of a gale. I watched the gimbal stove swing away as I prepared grilled steak. Serving dinner to the crew was not a problem, mine was sent to the head, quickly.

I dove Key West in March, 6' swells, 20 knot wind and 25' viz. Upon checking in at dive shop, I purchased fish oil for a dab behind my ears. No way this would work. Only 1 boat leaving that day and after 2 days of cancellations, I'm going anyway. I lather my ears with this stuff as the rest of dive team turns green. I cannot give this stuff away. I figured this dive was a test. I watched my wife get sick in the water. I just cannot figure blowin cookies through the regulator. I will always have a tube of oil with me in my bag. You test the waters to perfect this sport with or without your stomach.

Getting out of the water on that ladder was a ride and a half. That's another story.

Its all in the ear. Fix your life with a dab of fish oil.

 

[caribou]

my first 6 boat dives, I was sea sick...especially when the boat was turning the engines off, and we had to gear up while the boat was subject to waves (2 feet waves). at that same time, I had dry mouth issues, not hydrated enough. It caused me to have underwater nausea, not fun (remember your course, hold on to the reg..).
It felt that the regulator was spraying salt water little by little in my throat.

on the last dive, I drank a lot (water only), and everything disappeared.

6 months later, I did 11 boat dives, in very similar conditions (water temp, air temp, weather, waves height), I made a point to drinking a lot even if I wasn't thirsty, even if it meant needing to pee in the middle of a dive.

no dry mouth, no nausea, and no seasickness, perfect week, perfect dives.

not even an urge to pee during the dive, I wonder where the water goes....

I'm still unsure if this is related or not, but it did solve my seasickness issues (and in rougher waters).

On the side, meanwhile I had bought drops you can rub behind your ears, I never used it, thinking it was bull**** or placebo. But I lended it to a girl on the same dive boat so sick she had to skip the 2 dives, and she was fine for the whole last hour on the boat, and she joined us for the night dive.

If someone ask, I can get the exact name when I'm home.

As some mentioned, it may just have been that being insufficiently hydrated was an aggravating factor. maybe.

 

[cudachaser]

Interesting note on seasickness...NASA has done a lot research on spacesickness. Primary cause is the the signals received from the semicircular canels (balance sensor) and optical signals donot agree.

50% of all all astronauts experience space sickness at some time during their mission and older asronauts do better than young astronauts