You've got to be joking Ev. If I did what you suggest in items 1-3 I'd
be chucking before the boat was untied from the wharf.
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Evan Beaver
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:25 AM
To: Beth Symonds
Cc: Birding-aus
Subject: Tasmanian Pelagic trips: (Sea sickness)
management
After some rigourous experiments with Al, we can confidently state the
keys to avoiding sea-sickness:
1. Have a big breakfast. Bacon and Eggs or similar
2. Bring lots of food, particularly cheesy/fatty things work well
(cheese and bacon rolls, croissants, preferably savoury) 3. Drink tea
and ginger beer constantly. You can't vomit while you're eating/drinking
4. Stand up often, walk around, and if you're feeling crook, get into
the breeze and concentrate on looking out to the horizon and moving with
the boat 5. See lots of interesting things. Sooty albatross or similar
are excellent for staving off the blues 6. Fortify confidence with aged
Whiskey. The older the better.
Ev
On 8/30/07, Beth Symonds <> wrote:
> Hi Ian and Birding-Ausers,
>
> Apparently people with the best terrestrial balance are more affected
> by motion sickness, as shown by a rather interesting (and perhaps
> cruel) experiment conducted by NASA some time ago.
>
> They investigated which groups of athletes were more suceptible to
> motion sickness when flying in the "Vomit Comet" - this is the KC135
> airplane that oscillates in and out of the upper atmosphere, thus
> simulating microgravity for short periods. It is usually used for
> training astronauts and conducting experiments that require
> microgravitational conditions, and for this study, they sent up
> different goups of athletes and recorded their responses to the shifts
> into zero gravity. The sickest of the lot turned out to be elite
> gymnasts.
>
> I guess I must have missed my calling for the Australian Gym Team
> because I get SO sick on pelagics...
>
> Cheers!
> Beth Symonds
> Brisbane
>
>
> On 8/29/07, Ian May <> wrote:
> >
> > G'Day all
> >
> > I have enjoyed the recent discussion about pelagic birding. For
those
> > affected by sea sickness, succumbing to the dreaded "Technicolor
> > yawn" is not much fun. When one spends a bit of time at sea, you
> > soon learn that sea sickness
> > affects nearly everybody differently. Interestingly, some people
with
> > the best terrestrial balance are often most prone to motion
> > sickness. Have others observed this?
> >
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