On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:30:21 GMT, "Gordon" wrote:

In my Navy days, we once spent 3 days on the edge of a typhoon. You
basically don't want much food, maybe a piece of fruit once in a while. You
couldn't stay in your bunk so you went to your normal duty station, grabbed
a couple life jackets for pillows and curled up on the deck where you could
brace yourself. You didn't go for and aft on the main deck. Lines were
rigged on the 2nd deck to hang on to, to go for and aft and you would judge
the waves and run. This was on a DDE where you couldn't go for and aft
inside.
Destroyers just naturally go under one wave and over the next. Due to the
lenght I guess.
Gordon
BTW, Used to have a friend who always was seasick for the first 3 or 4 days
at sea. He would stand watch holding a bucket or at least keeping it very
close. Talk about not eating!

I was on two floats - one to the Med and one in the South Pacific.
Both times, I was never seasick, although a lot of my company was.

Based on my own experience, I'm not sure which is worse - the long
slow swells or the relative violence of short period waves.

Later,

Tom