Chucking Up/Sea-sick Remedies?!

[HelenM]

Ginger good. Stugeron better. But every now and then I still end up having a little chat to God over the side.

Hey ho. The dives are worth it.

H

[Andy the Coastie]

1. Issue the person filling unwell a sick bag.. ( Curtsoey of P & O Ferries ).
2. Place hand on the persons shoulder, giving comfort " ya alright mate , only 5 more minutes and we're home ".
3. Take filled sick bag off unwell person, " Ok , mate i'll dump it for ya ".
4. Toss bag over the side , when no one is watching.



5. Go into the Taurus Galley with an empty sick bag.
6. Fill sick bag with contents of a 500 ml bottle of Hellmans mayo.
7. Open a tin of Tesco's mixed veg.
8. Empty contents of the tin into sick bag.
9. Insert wooden spoon and give it a stir......

Give a quick DING on the ships bell.

Walk out onto deck with sick bag.
Place hand in sick bag.
Grab a handful of Veggie Mayo.
Bring to the mouth and lick off hand.

SAY OUT LOUD " Blody hell, tastes better when it's not luke warm "
Lick lips.

NO ONE PUKES THEN as they all look at you thinking what a wierd skipper you are ..



That works

[NeilP]

Never suffered from it myself, but apparently you are supposed to look at the horizon.
Something to do with when you're getting thrown about and looking at the deck your ears(balance) are telling your brain that you are not level even though your eyes are telling your brain that you are level. By looking at the horizon, the eyes match what your balance is tellng your brain.

May be a load of crap, but like I said, I've never experienced it to know if it works or not

[Neil M]

I find ginger snaps/crystalised ginger works really well.....

that and taking it easy the night before

Worst things to do:-
1. look down when feeling queasy
2. Sat in the engine fumes
3. going in the wheel house

[Druid]

I tend to get seasick quite easily, but seasickness pills taken half an hour before sailing usually stop me feeling too bad.

The last time I was sick was earlier this year, I forgot the tablets. Got on the boat and set off -about 40 minutes to the dive site and I was feeling quite rough when we moored. I thought I'd be fine when I got in the water, so I jumped in and carried on with the dive. All was fine until we were making our way back, following the reef at 5-6m. The swell was bad enough that I could feel it even at that depth and I soon started to feel ill. Sure enough, my breakfast made a reappearance. I remembered to keep my reg in my mouth, and the fish seemed to be grateful for the free meal. When I surfaced, I was waiting to climb back aboard and getting thrown around a bit, and I threw up again.

I drank lots of water when I got back on the boat, and managed to eat some bread while everyone else was tucking into the impressive looking lunch that had been provided. I managed to make the second dive without throwing up, but only just.

The worst thing was when I got back to the dive centre and I was washing my kit, and I found a slice of regurgitated mushroom stuck in the reg's exhaust. Presumably the diced carrot was small enough to fit through the slots in the exhaust tee.

[Tonto]

Originally Posted by Doug Parker

Making really loud puking sounds behind whoever is puking on the boat usually keeps me too occupied to puke.

Cant green too soon sorry
I have it on good authority that if you eat strawberry jam it tastes the same coming up so its not quite so unpleasant being sick, havn't tried it though

[RickG]

I always try to take two stugeron a couple of hours before a boat dive, but the main thing that stops me feeding the fish is making sure that my kit is set up (regs on, reels & torches etc. clipped to D-rings) before I even set foot on the boat - I can happily focus on the horizon all the way to the site, and all I have to do when I get there is put my tea down, slip into my harness and drop off the side

[Mr T.]

After watching two regular UK buddies - Davey Willo and H - pebble-dash the port and starboards of particualr dive boats (or be VERY close to doing so ), and having had to transfer my wife onto a relief boat to take her back to shore at Aliwal Shoal, South Africa, so we could strike out through the swell and surge to dive, I can recommend (not that I have ever been seasick and have never taken it) Sturgeron!! My wife swears by it.

If you can catch Howard, ClaireDJ or Spike on a return trip from SA, ask them to snag you a couple of boxes!! The UK boxes are sold with 15 mg tabs - the SA boxes are sold in 25 mgs tabs!

[rickles23]

Everytime I go out in a boat I'm sick for about 5 minutes.

The only consolation is that Horatio Nelson used to be the same way.

Regards

rickles23

[Garf]

Originally Posted by Andy the Commie

1. Issue the person filling unwell a sick bag.. ( Curtsoey of P & O Ferries ).
2. Place hand on the persons shoulder, giving comfort " ya alright mate , only 5 more minutes and we're home ".
3. Take filled sick bag off unwell person, " Ok , mate i'll dump it for ya ".
4. Toss bag over the side , when no one is watching.



5. Go into the Taurus Galley with an empty sick bag.
6. Fill sick bag with contents of a 500 ml bottle of Hellmans mayo.
7. Open a tin of Tesco's mixed veg.
8. Empty contents of the tin into sick bag.
9. Insert wooden spoon and give it a stir......

Give a quick DING on the ships bell.

Walk out onto deck with sick bag.
Place hand in sick bag.
Grab a handful of Veggie Mayo.
Bring to the mouth and lick off hand.

SAY OUT LOUD " Blody hell, tastes better when it's not luke warm "
Lick lips.

NO ONE PUKES THEN as they all look at you thinking what a wierd skipper you are ..



That works

Fantastic

The bread and milk works for me too, and if I forget, a fixed eye on the horizon keeps me cool.