# What Is Wrong With My Plan To Ride Out (Literally) A Hurricane?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-my-plan-to-ride-out-literally-a-hurricane/461727
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-my-plan-to-ride-out-literally-a-hurricane/461727 "2008-09-02T18:39:29Z")
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### Author:  [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-my-plan-to-ride-out-literally-a-hurricane/461727/41 "2008-09-05T15:32:29Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> Except on the surface. Ever been in a submarine rolling around in high seas on the surface? The motion is enough to turn even a cast iron stomach into pot metal. There is a reason (beyond tactics) why subs prefer to ride well under the surface; because the ride at \>100 feet of dept is much smoother than up top.
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> Stranger
Exactly. I’ve also been in a submarine on the surface in heavy seas going into a port in Norway, and we were easily doing 20-degree rolls. Probably half the crew was incapacitated with seasickness. (The diesel fumes from testing the emergency diesel generator didn’t help, either.)
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-my-plan-to-ride-out-literally-a-hurricane/461727/42 "2008-09-05T16:03:03Z")
> [@Mr.Moto](#):
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> He spent eighteen hours on the bow planes - getting up only to use the head. They brought his chow to him.
How come? Was he the best planesman they had (or at least the best not seasick)? One would think they would have enough hands available to get some relief once in a while.
When I was in high school I went on a field trip intended to get people interested in oceanography. A 75-foot fishing boat had been outfitted with all kinds of gear and would take groups of twenty-five or so out for the day. The day we went was just after a storm, and there were still five foot swells from it. Little, dinky five-foot swells and that boat bobbed like a cork, and rolled like a barrel. I was one of a handful who didn’t get seasick, but there’s no way I’d voluntarily go in anything like ten-footers, never mind hurricaine-sized seas.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-my-plan-to-ride-out-literally-a-hurricane/461727/43 "2008-09-05T16:46:19Z")
I guess he was their best planesman - and the CO wanted his best people on all the watch stations for that one.
I read the citation for his NAM - it looks like it really was pretty hairy for a stretch.
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