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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 01-23-2011 03:00 PM

Just back from the Oceania Regatta. First day we had 10' whitecaps and force 4 winds. Ship did not rock, pitching mildly, but kicks and jiggles. My crossing on her in '05 during a hurricane far worse.

My limit is when dishes start flying and objects overturn, my travel partner much more sensitive.

I have discovered that after 19 cruises:

Sea Bands: do not cure or prevent sea-sickness but raise the threshold of tolerance to motion.

Ginger: eliminates the nausea, but not the headache and wooziness while your balance system adapts to the ship motions.

Dranamine: eliminates the neuroligical process, but does not always allow one to get sealegs, and when wears off one has to start the whole process of adaptation again.

Phenergan, knocks you out once you are sick, after you wake up nothing can bother you.

I use a holy trinity of the top 3 and only get mildly uncomfortable.

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 01-24-2011 12:56 AM

I am not sure how long it has been on the market but I have used Bonine for as long as I can remember, and before that I used Dramamine. Never used the patch behind the ear or the sea bands. Thought they were too obvious and made you look like a 'rookie' on the high seas. Never even tried Ginger but hear and read about folks recommending Ginger Ale to help calm the senses when seasick. On the Celebrity MERCURY back in December when we hit out little tempest and the entire day was spent bobbing head first into the oncoming swells I heard that about half the passengers were 'down for the count' and didn't even show up for dinner that night.

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LeBarryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 5308

posted 01-25-2011 09:09 AM

Sea-Band has come out with a new ginger gum, and used in concert with the Sea-Band seems to work very well, from what I have been told....I never experience motion discomfort.

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LeBarryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 5308

posted 01-30-2011 10:29 AM

The Nieuw Amsterdam was on Code red during our entire cruise. No spa, no thermal suite, and in the Lido passengers could not serve themselves. We had a nice time though. It was fun spending some time with Peter Knego, I interviewed him a couple of times.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 08-30-2011 11:18 PM

For Ernie and Christophe

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eroller
First Class Passenger
Member # 1649

posted 08-31-2011 12:29 AM

quote:
Originally posted by desirod7:
For Ernie and Christophe

Thanks David!

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Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 08-31-2011 10:10 AM

Being an old Navy salt I have not felt any discomfort while cruising.(Ocean)
However I did feel a little uncomfortable on Lake Michigan on a sailboat. The Great Lakes seem to be more waves than swells as on the ocean.
Roughest seas I every experienced was of San Francisco. I believe it's due to the San Andreas fault going out to sea there.
When a big aircraft carrier starts rocking and rolling you know it's rough!!!
F4

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Cambodge
First Class Passenger
Member # 906

posted 09-30-2011 01:30 PM

As a geologist, I assure you that the San Andreas Fault has nothing to do with ocean motion! It is not even under the ocean at San Francisco.

No it is the fact that the prevailing Westerlies have pretty miuch the whole Pacific Ocean to build up swells, and when they impinge on the coast, and on the relatively short coastal "plain" in the SFO area, you get beeg swells.

And in 1945, a WWII troopship sailing out of The Bay was not a fun place to be either, when the "General Blatchford" encountered them. AP153 was a C-4, and had no stabilizers. 2500 or so seasick GIs made it the first few days of a transPaciicic passage, er memorable.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 12-02-2013 11:15 PM

Just back from Queen Mary 2 TransAtlantic. With 10' whitecaps and Force 6 winds, she has the most gentle rocking motions of low amplitude and frequency. It helps me sleep. My partner got mildly sick, me no problem. On the other hand the Regatta with its stiff, jiggling, and kicking ride bothers me, but not him.

IMPORTANT: do not use a stairmaster or elliptical trainer on a rolling ship. Made the mistake on QE2. The up& down motion plus the ship's motion upset the brain's balance center, and alas, seasickness.

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