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Granpafish
Junior member
Username: Granpafish
Post Number: 199
Registered: 04-2005
a woman is but a woman, a good cigar is a smoke.
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 01:20 pm: | 
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I've been sea sick a couple of times and it ain't fun but I've never heard of anything this bad. Hope it isn't something else worse.
Coast Guard medevacs 1 near Indian River Inlet, Del.
INDIAN RIVER INLET, Del. - The Coast Guard medevaced a 45-year-old man from aboard a 61-foot boat seven miles off the coast of Indian River Inlet Sunday.
The Coast Guard received a call at 11 a.m. from a crewmember aboard the Miss Chris, homeported in Cape May, N.J., reporting a passenger experiencing extreme sea sickness.
A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Indian River, Del., arrived on scene and transferred the man to their boat.
The man was transported back to the station where he was transferred to awaiting emergency medical personnel and transported to Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Del., for treatment.
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Waterdog
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Username: Waterdog
Post Number: 138
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 02:48 pm: |
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Maybe the passenger had few too many prior to/during the trip? Whats was the sea state like? Why didn't they just take the guy in to shore themselves? Seven miles is not that long a run. |
Trapper1
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Username: Trapper1
Post Number: 81
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 08:52 pm: |
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Remember this about getting sea sick. "First you are afraid you might die. Then as the sea sickness gets worse, you become afraid that you won't die and be done with your misery." |
Bad_kitty
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Username: Bad_kitty
Post Number: 1899
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 09:09 pm: |
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I never heard of that type of medi-vac but I heard some radio chatter yesterday regarding a diabetic passenger that needed medical assistance.
I belive they did call for helio due to the severe symptoms.
"The Head" .... one place the Captain knows what He's doing !
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Bucktailbob
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Username: Bucktailbob
Post Number: 4007
Registered: 12-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 09:33 pm: |
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Trapper1 wrote on Sunday July 25 2010 - 08:52 pm:
EXACTLY====== BTDT
Fishing is a matter of opinion
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Albemarle305
Senior member
Username: Albemarle305
Post Number: 2592
Registered: 08-2005
Get a Reel job, go Sportfishing
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2010 - 10:14 pm: |
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On Deadly Catch a cameraman was experiencing extreme sea sickness, he had to be transported by heli, the guy looked like he was about to die, his hands were all cramped, and body was not functioning right at all.. I use to always joke with my friends who don't want to go fishing because they might get sick. I use to always tell the "Oh, you will be ok, no one ever died of sea sickness" but I am afraid to say, that I think you very well could. The guy on deadliest catch was sick for 3 or 4 days and was suffering dehydration, I could see a older guy that is seasick on a day like today (100degree) having a problem with dehydration from puking, Just something to think about. On most paid charter trips the person that is sick, will usually try to let the rest of the crew fish, I don't know the situation but they might have been coming back in already.. |
Macmon
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Username: Macmon
Post Number: 651
Registered: 12-2004
Just Say NO to the New World Order
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 26, 2010 - 06:44 pm: |
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It aint no fun ,I as sik on an overniter the Capt told me if i tasted hair to swallow as hard as I could. 
PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS
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Tiny_bubba
Senior member
Username: Tiny_bubba
Post Number: 1076
Registered: 04-2004
Run Fast....Bark Loud
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 26, 2010 - 09:14 pm: |
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The worst part about seasickness (besides the being sick part) is the dehydration. If that gets bad enough, a person could literally die of "seasickness". When you're in that state, (the state of puking your brains out) you don't want to think about eating or drinking but if you don't drink water, you do stand the chance of dehydration. With the recent heat we've had, maybe the crew thought it would be best to get him off the boat and somewhere he could rehydrate quickly.
Just a thought.
Run Fast...Bark Loud
Bubba
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Chris311
Senior member
Username: Chris311
Post Number: 1384
Registered: 03-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 12:54 pm: |
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I have only had it once!! On Lake Michigan of all places, was like fishing in a wash tub, never felt that bad in my entire life and I have had a few New Orleans hangovers!
Relax, Smile, Wet a Line and Have a Cold One!!
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Frank
Junior member
Username: Frank
Post Number: 170
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 02:40 pm: |
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I would be very interested to hear from Mike_m about:
1. What his thoughts and reaction would have been if he were to have been ordered to do a heli medevac for a seasick passenger when he was active CG, and
2. What insight he may have on this particular situation.
I truly hope that the CG resources were not used unless it was truly a life threatening situation and that the delay created by returning to port would have exacerbated the victim's condition. I would be very disappointed if the evac occurred just because a group of well-connected fishermen didn't want their seasick buddy ruining their fishing trip. |
Esquired
Senior member
Username: Esquired
Post Number: 1575
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 03:47 pm: |
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Mr. Johnson's wife of 50 years suggested they take a cruise: "We could go somewhere for a week, and make wild love like we did when we were young." He thought it over and agreed.
He went to the pharmacy and bought a bottle of seasick pills and a tube of lubricant. Upon returning home, his wife said "I've been thinking, there's no reason we can't go for a month."
Mr. Johnson went back to the pharmacy and asked for 12 bottles of seasick pills and a tube of lubricant.
When he returned his wife said, "Since the children are on their own, what's stopping us from cruising the world?"
He went back and bought 200 bottles of seasick pills and more tubes of lubricant.
The pharmacist finally had to ask: "You know, Mr. Johnson, I don't mean to pry, but if it makes you that sick, why the hell do you do it?"
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Team Black Bart You sit at the dock, we fish!
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Seamaster
New member
Username: Seamaster
Post Number: 51
Registered: 01-2010
"Next in importance to having good aim is recognizing when to pull the trigger."
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 04:04 pm: |
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I have never been sea sick...but I was on a reasearch ship out of Lewes, DE (The Annandale) in 1975 taking a marine science course....a few of the students got sick the first night as we moved further out to sea. I think it was a combination of being below deck, smell of diesel fuel, and 4-6' seas. God I felt bad for those folks. |
Granpafish
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Username: Granpafish
Post Number: 202
Registered: 04-2005
a woman is but a woman, a good cigar is a smoke.
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 04:35 pm: |
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Just to clear up the circumstances, If it the boat that I think it is, it is a head boat (not a charter) from Cape May. I've never heard of a head boat captain being very concerned about a sea sick passenger so it must have been pretty bad. |
Waltthehatman
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Username: Waltthehatman
Post Number: 494
Registered: 03-2004
Gotcha!!!
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 01:00 pm: |
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Franks last paragraf has it on the head!! |
Mike_m
Founding member
Username: Mike_m
Post Number: 3461
Registered: 05-2004
Pass it on
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 09:45 am: |
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Frank, I heard something about someone being evacuated, but didn't know why.
As for doing Medevacs while I was flying crew, we did quite a few for all types of reasons. It didn't matter what it was for due to the fact if you were launched to do one, there was a reason for it. I can speak for myself about the effects of motion sickness. I was on a SAR case in Hurricane force winds when we lost our auto stabilization in the helo and thought I'd lost my innards I tossed so hard. It is a horrible feeling, but you had a job to do and you gutted it out. When we got back I just wanted to curl up in a ball and didn't care what happened to me, it was that bad.
You never know what could be wrong with a supposedly seasick individual, anyone who has ever gone into low sugar shock can attest to that. You may seem seasick until the other effects take hold. Fortunately for me a few years back my wife carries carbs and sugar or I may have had to be medevaced out from out past the Lightship.
Heart attacks can have the same type of symtom's also, so you don't take chances and get the person back to where someone with medical knowledge can check them out. Moral to the story, it is better to be overly safe than sorry. |
Halfhitch
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Username: Halfhitch
Post Number: 1429
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 05:59 pm: |
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I heard a story years ago that there was a guy who faked a heart attack to get the CG to pick him up out in the canyons. He was sea sick, but hadn't had a heart attack. I don't know if there is any truth to that story or not. |
Frank
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Username: Frank
Post Number: 172
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 07:23 pm: |
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Thanks for the response, Mike.
I understand that orders must be carried out and have no doubt in my mind that you did so professionally and without questioning those issuing them.
I sincerely hope that the officer issuing the orders for this rescue was doing so with full and complete knowledge that it was truly a life threatening situation for which the alternative of the boat proceeding to the nearest port was not an option. |
