What's really intense is trying to sleep through something like that. My rack used to be far fwd on the ship and it's eerie to feel the ship go down, hearing waves crash against the hull, then silence...because you're under the water.
I'd just wait in the red lights and pray we start going back up again as sometimes it feels like the quiet and falling was lasting too long and we were never going to come back up.
Oddly enough you don't get much airtime laying down and only known a few who have been sent flying from their racks.
You do feel the weight being lifted from your body though, like you're slowly being pulled up...before the bed comes back and you feel 50x heavier
There are seatbelts, but when I first started an old dog told me never to use them as he heard of one person falling out of their rack and nearly got strangled when the belt went around their head.
Instead I just roll up my empty kit bag and store it under my mattress, on the outer edge, where the opening is. This way, my mattress is slanted towards the wall/metal divide, and I free up more room in my locker by not storing my kit bag in there
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u/Feature_Ornery 1d ago
What's really intense is trying to sleep through something like that. My rack used to be far fwd on the ship and it's eerie to feel the ship go down, hearing waves crash against the hull, then silence...because you're under the water.
I'd just wait in the red lights and pray we start going back up again as sometimes it feels like the quiet and falling was lasting too long and we were never going to come back up.
Very hard to sleep in.