I heard an interesting story saying that the crews are routinely sleep deprived. Like hospital residents. And the old school tough guys say, “you can sleep when you’re dead” but that doesn’t sound so tough when you hear the horror stories about competent seamen falling asleep at critical times.
That’s an interesting observation. You can ‘muscle’ your way through sleep deprivation in some situations, but not all.
>>I heard an interesting story saying that the crews are routinely sleep deprived.
The crews of naval vessels are always sleep-deprived. I’ve been so tired that I couldn’t eat, but I stood my watch because my training took over once I signed into the logs.
This was the results of the Snowflake Generation taking over. The Navy is an early warning because it is place where young adults generally are in charge of powerful machinery. This will spread until the days of 24/7 running water and electricity on demand are over. On the average, this generation is not prepared to take the reins of an industrial civilization.
I work in the utility industry now and can see the warning signs in the few Snowflake Generation people who are willing to even take a job that doesn’t involve building web apps.
What are these competent seamen doing that they’re so tired but _none_ are standing deck watch?
I was always sleep deprived when we were underway, but there was nothing like a watch with a few ships around to get the adrenalin flowing. The guys standing watches as phone talkers and lookouts were a different story. Keeping them involved could be hard.
I flew in the Navy. Our bible, NATOPS, imposed sleep time for us after each flight. Why not the surface Navy?