Watching footage from the back deck of a commercial fishing boat in high seas in the Great Australian Bight had numerous viewers claiming to have become seasick, the video is so insane.
“Getting seasick just watching this,” one commenter wrote as many others did on the Facebook page of On The Deck, started by two commercial fishermen in Australia.
“We get asked a lot of questions about what we do and how it all works, so we wanted to give people an understanding of where their seafood comes from in Australia,” one of the fishermen named Connor told Yahoo! News Australia.
So, the fishermen decided to start posting images and videos on Facebook showing what it’s like. The latest video was of their 88-foot trawler going up and down 40-foot waves, shot from the back of the boat some 185 miles off the southern coast of Australia.
Though viewers watched from the comfort of land, they felt the ill-effects of the rollers, or at least claimed to feel them. Some examples of the comments:
“Just watching that made me seasick.”
“I’m sick watching this!!”
“I feel seasick just watching.”
“I feel a bit seasick.”
“I got seasick watching this.”
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Some simply posted green-faced emojis.
“Nope,” one wrote. “Couldn’t pay me enough to get on board.”
“Nope, nope, nope,” another wrote.
Even though the waves appear scary, one of the fishermen wrote that “these boats can handle a lot if you drive ‘em right.”
Fortunately, the skipper knew how to drive the boat correctly.
The conditions look extreme, but “it’s actually pretty typical” for that part of the world during winter, Connor told Yahoo! News Australia.
“As you’re surfing the waves like that you can actually end up going completely sideways,” he said.
“We were actually heading into port at that stage and that was behind us, but believe it or not we can actually fish in weather like that … We’ll pretty much fish until you can’t steer the fishing gear [back] on.”
Incidentally, that isn’t a brick wall in the back of the boat. On The Deck explains: “It’s the pound boards to hold fish on deck. We put them in when its rough. So [much] safer for crew working and walking around. Looks like bricks cause they were dry and have water dripping down them.”
