One o' my favorite provisions at sea was sardines in mustard sauce on whole wheat bread. In rough weather, for some reason, seeing me chow down with gusto on my sardine sandwich would cause any crew who were prone to seasickness to suddenly start retching over the side.
I guess if you're by youself, that can work.......a little weak.
I've never been seasick. Damn flat bottomed Amfib to a destroyer and some
rough storms, cracked hull by #1 boiler room on the destroyer in
attempting to avoiding a typhoon, and never got sick..........maybe a bit 'discomfort' with that storm. Maintaining a steam plant in rough weather can be VERY tricky. So many things can go wrong very quickly. Your casulity control skills needs to be quite good and you need to 'know' your plant. I wasn't skurred, but I sure AF was apprehensive!
My point is my little 3rd class engineman wuz VERY 'THINTHITIVE' to sea sickness. We weren't past #1 bouy and he's sick!
He's not faking it either. That white Irish boy could get green......between early Spock green anf Heman Munster green. It was just plain FUNNY AF! I was very thinly manned and everyone was important and HAD to pull their weight FULLY! I had to break him of this, so he became the butt of all our sea sickness pranks. The boy was sure getting hammered!
I did break him, though. He was the guy I picked to go with me UNDER #2 elevator to disconnect the stancion linkages so they could be lowered. Some DAMN BROWNSHOE backed into one and bent it.
It's not an easy job in the best of weather, but getting on the catwalk, underneath the elevator, when the ship is about 300 miles from The Horn, it adds a lot to everything! This kid was 'skurred shitless'. I'm being as professional as possible, after a tiny gig at him to break the tension.
This kid was just too damned skurred to be sick! After we were finisged and back in my office to warm up with coffee, I pointed out to him that he was not sick. A light bulb came on in him! LOL! All he could say, "Well, f*ck me!" and began laughing.
He was able ro, and relished, screwing with the 'thinthitive' shipmates lie we did with him.