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Shifts, Sleep and Sanity
20 March 2020 · 10 min · 141 views
What this video covers
A crew of four maintained a four-hours-on, four-hours-off watch schedule during a 3,400-mile delivery from Les Sables d'Olonne, France, to Split, Croatia.0:08 To prevent fatigue and maintain crew interaction, the team staggered shifts so that each person overlapped with two different crew members during their four-hour watch.1:28 Sleep trackers, including Apple Watch and Fitbit, recorded average sleep as low as 2.5 hours per day during the most demanding weeks of the passage.4:01 Crew members mitigated sleep deprivation by utilizing scheduled port stops for recovery and wearing noise-canceling headphones to block the sounds of the catamaran’s hull flexing in 4.5 to 5-meter swells.5:15 Maintaining sanity required individual coping strategies, such as cooking, spending time on deck, or taking solo watches to manage frustration with slow progress and weather conditions.9:22 Seasickness affected all crew members to varying degrees, impacting eating habits and energy levels throughout the transit.8:39
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