Getting a Grip on Gravity Aboard a Ship

There’s an infinite stream of recommendation about issues that may cease you sleeping properly: vivid screens earlier than bedtime, an excessive amount of caffeine, the improper pillows and so forth. Let me add one to the checklist. It’s nearly unattainable to get any first rate sleep when you’re continuously sliding throughout the bedsheets all the way down to the top of the mattress, after which a couple of seconds later sliding again the opposite method.

This sounds excessive, nevertheless it’s been an everyday characteristic of my life over the previous month. I spent a few of November and all of December on a scientific analysis ship in the course of the Labrador Sea, as a part of a global mission to measure stormy seas and the way they assist the ocean breathe. It was an ideal alternative from a scientific viewpoint, nevertheless it got here with a built-in problem—the center of the ocean throughout an enormous storm is a really tough place to work, as a result of gravity turns into a fickle trickster.