i learnt that i am highly susceptible to sea sickness in small boats

15 minutes and i was toast

>>>15 minutes and i was toast

So was that spew on toast?

i had been sat on a larger vessel and had been transported there by a fairly small one.

i was then asked to get into a small yellow plastic boat of no more than 12ft feet and thats when disaster struck, it was well paid work, shame i couldn’t continue.

i’m off to an interview for a sparky needed to wire demountables tomorrow instead

it took me an hour to recover my brain and stomach before i could drive.

bloody boats

Awwwoooaawwooo.
I know that seasick feeling.

sympathy

submarines are a different kettle of fish (or unterwasser vessels as i like to call them)

once you are say 10 meters down theres practically no swell, subs normally run much deeper so i would say practically anyone could live and work in a sub

talking of subs

they can be made from different materials

the russians have made titanium hulled subs, steel is normally used because it is durable under depth charge attack, they normally make an alloy, when they built the collins class subs they placed explosives on sections of steel to see what would happen.

in the last few days i’ve been looking at barnacles and things that attach themselves to the hull of vessels

it makes me wonder if subs and ships could have a skin that “twitches” to break off the barnacles

lets say you laid up a matrix of skin that twitched to dislodge barnacles, maybe you wouldn’t have paint as such but a purpose made membrane that whilst being smooth, could ripple to flick suckers off the side of the hull. you might lay down an electrical network that both twitched AND administered a persuasive shock to the section being twitched.

wookiemeister said:

practically anyone could live and work in a sub

Yeah. But I wouldn’t enjoy it.
I’m used to acres around me.

>>>once you are say 10 meters down theres practically no swell, subs normally run much deeper so i would say practically anyone could live and work in a sub

Not me, claustraphobia, I could claw my way through the steel hull, motion sickness has never been a problem, I can remember as a kid being the only person in a DC4 who wasn’t spewing, I was running up and down the aisle enjoying the ride.

Ian said:

wookiemeister said:

practically anyone could live and work in a sub

Yeah. But I wouldn’t enjoy it.
I’m used to acres around me.

well what you’d need to do is pretend that you are in some “lifestyle” appartment block, read various coffee table mags to help you do this. you could arrange various small pieces of IKEA stuff around you and read their catalogue to think how you would arrange your bunk (with the permission of your fellow bunkmate)

there was a german sub in the deutsches museum downstairs with a section cuttaway for inspection. after quickly assessing that no one was monitoring the camera trained on the sub , i jumped over the barrier to live out my U Boat fanatsies. they are very small inside.

bob(from black rock) said:

>>>once you are say 10 meters down theres practically no swell, subs normally run much deeper so i would say practically anyone could live and work in a sub

Not me, claustraphobia, I could claw my way through the steel hull, motion sickness has never been a problem, I can remember as a kid being the only person in a DC4 who wasn’t spewing, I was running up and down the aisle enjoying the ride.

air travel no problem

what did we learn today?
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That the effects of Pitch and Yaw are directly associated with lenght…

started a new job today anyway doing electrical stuff