How exciting, Chuck! You should have been on deck to see ...
Chris
On 15 Feb 2010, at 15:17, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Yes, too late for advice on motion sickness but it wasn't a problem and
> I've not suffered from that in the past. After leaving IBM I was for 2
> years the engineering design manager for a small defense contractor
> which specialized in work for the Navy. After developing some hardened
> navigational displays for them I and the senior members of my team spent
> 10 days on the USS Nimitz during a shakedown cruise in the Pacific.
> Despite her size (nearly 1100 feet long) she does a lot of rocking and
> rolling. My biggest problem was not seasickness but trying to sleep
> underneath the catapults during night operations. But I'm not sure I
> could say the same if the ship had been a tin can (destroyer). :-)
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