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Do I get sea sick?
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I've never really been out on the ocean. I recall getting sick after playing a lot of Duke Nuke Em 3D and Dark Forces way back. I'm thinking of going on a cruise, but don't want to spend the money if I'm just gonna be miserable the whole time. Is there a way to check if I will get sea sick? If I do get sea sick, are there any reliable remedies?
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there's tonnes of remedies though, ranging from wrist bands to pills, and you won't know your sea sick until you go out in a boat. You're likely to be if you get motion sick though, and just know that ocean cruise ships will rarely give you sea sickness anyway.
I don't think you would notice the waves on a big cruiser though. I got sick bobbing up and down on 20 foot swells in a small fishing boat for 2 hours.
Regardless before you go visit your local chemist and ask for some sea sick pills there are natural ones (ginger as someone said) or some whacky chemical one which I usually take. In Australia they are known as quells.
Satans..... hints.....
That's a sure fire way to feel better but it's kind of not awnsering your question, just thought you might want to know in case you make the wrong descision and end up on a boat with terrible sea-sickness.
ctrl-f "motion"
So take ginger pills
Having been on a cruise ship in the past year, I can tell you that they do in fact still rock enough to be noticeable. If it gets especially turbulent, you WILL notice it. Sea sickness pills should work a wonder though.
Ginger works pretty well for most people, which is good because it's really the only thing I can see working for a long term event like a cruise. If it was something like a quick ferry ride that you had to do, I'd just say take a motion-sickness drug and then fall asleep for the duration. But obviously staying in a drug-induced half stupor for the entire cruise defeats the purpose.
On the uphand, if you can use the ginger to keep it under control, after a few days -most- people will adjust to the point where only when bad turbulence sets in does it become noticeable again.
We use them all the time when we go diving. Falling asleep underwater would not be a good idea.
Satans..... hints.....
I'm assuming you've only ever used one kind, perhaps something specific for diving. Because virtually every motion-sickness drug out there lists sedation as a side-effect. That or you're one of the lucky few who don't typically experience it.
It's a good reason why ginger is a quite popular alternative, since it has very few of the same problems associated with drugs.
Ginger will you out if you fell it but you really cant sure 'til you get out on the boat.
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I'll second this. I've been on cruises before, and they will give you FREE dramamine. They don't want you to stress out, they just want you to have a good time. Just go down to the Medical Pavil- I mean sick bay, and ask for some. Its a harmless little pill and it works pretty quickly. I never notice any drowsiness.
No, because those glasses basicly have a simple attitude indicator built into them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_horizon
Also, various factors can affect the amount of movement you will experience.
Most cruise ships are big enough that you will only really experience rolling (tilting port and starboard). Pitching (tilting forward and aft) should be minimal and heaving (vertical motion) will be practically non existent. However the ship is moving, the placement of your berthing will effect how severely you experience the motion. If you are higher up, rolling and pitching is amplified. Being farther forward or aft (away from amidships) will amplify pitching as well. These are factors that you might have some control over.
Another important consideration is the route that the cruise will be taking. I've heard that the Northern Pacific tends to be pretty rough (between Northern California and Alaska). Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico cruises should be pretty calm. From personal experience, traveling along the Central and South American western coast during the summer was pretty calm as well. Of course, storms can ruin almost any waters, but I imagine most cruises are planned during good weather periods.
Sort of tangential, but these are some pictures I took on an aircraft carrier while dodging a tropical storm out in the western Pacific.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v409/DKerensky/Cam011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v409/DKerensky/Cam022.jpg
It might not look that impressive at first, but the flight deck is roughly 70 feet above the water and I'm up about 120 feet. The first shot shows pretty heavy spray breaking over the flight deck and the second shows the aftermath of a wave slamming into the forward quarter of the hull. Every now and then a wave would hit at just the right time and it would sound like someone hit the ship with a giant hammer. Also, the ship was rocking enough that you had to hold onto your tray in the mess-deck or it would slide off of the table. It's fairly impressive when the water is rough enough to do that to an aircraft carrier.
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Oh, then I guess I'll spare you the story of my cruise from Florida to the Bahamas for Spring Break, in which 80% of the passengers got sea sick and vomited everywhere inside and out.
But seriously, take some dramamine.
My mom has a friend who went on a cruise and got seasick and the usual seasickness treatments didn't work. It was so bad she got off the cruise at the first port of call and spent a week at a resort instead.