I was quite sick on the WOS conference trip, which was my first time
out. I learned a lot, however. I found what triggered me was (1) the
fumes, and (2) changing my reference from horizon to boat or vice versa.

Wear warm waterproof clothing so you can stand on the windward side of
the boat without freezing to death. This lets you avoid the fumes.

Keep your saltines in your pockets or in a bag around your neck. I
would get sick when trying to get food out of my backpack under the
bench because that required a change of reference.

Keep eating and drinking even if you get sick. 10 hours of hard work
without food or water is debilitating in itself, and simply standing on
a tossing boat is hard work.

If things get too bad, go to sleep (somewhere out of the fumes).


== Michael Hobbs
== Redmond WA
== mikeho at microsoft.com


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>From: bc468 at scn.org[SMTP:bc468 at scn.org]
>Sent: Saturday, October 19, 1996 8:29 AM
>To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Subject: pelagic trips
>
>years ago we took a pelagic birding trip and saw lots of neat stuff but
>also were massively seasick--went out from westport. I would love to try
>it again if I can avoid the seasickness. Any suggestions? thanks
>
>Judith Noble
>bc468 at scn.org
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