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Six and six is fine, if you actually do it. In reality, junior officers do six on watch, six on a computer doing paperwork, six back on watch, a couple hours e
by sandworm101 2y ago
Six and six is fine, if you actually do it. In reality, junior officers do six on watch, six on a computer doing paperwork, six back on watch, a couple hours eating/bathing/cleaning, then perhaps get five of actual sleep each day.
- kstrauser 2y agoIt’s not. You can’t ever have a full night’s rest. That’s not sustainable.
- sandworm101 2y agoNavies have been doing some version of six and six for centuries. It isn't total bunk.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoDoing something stupid for a long time doesn't make it a good idea.
- sandworm101 2y agoNor is doing 8-8-8 or 12-12 shifts. There are only so many people on a boat and they all need to be working about 50% of the time, plus all-hands stuff where nobody sleeps.
- kstrauser 2y agoThe risk of that logic is that 1-1 shifts would have 50% of the ship working at a time, although most of them would die after a week or so. 1-1 is clearly absurd. So is 2-2. And 3-3. I'm convinced 6-6 is also biologically unsustainable for most people, although 6 hours is long enough that 1) some people are perfectly fine with it, and 2) most other people can hack it for at least a while before incipient mental breakdown.
- aaronmdjones 2y agoA full night's rest isn't 8 hours, and the sleep doesn't have to be accumulated in one block. This is a myth that persisted after the invention of street lighting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
- kstrauser 2y agoFor some people. Sleep monitors confirm that I consistently sleep from 7 to 8 hours straight through per night unless something external disturbs me. That's my own natural sleep pattern. I cannot function on fewer contiguous hours long-term. I know. I've been through it several times in life and it was universally horrible. Some people function best with several shorter sleep periods. Other people function best with 1 longer one. The former can work just fine with a 12-12 schedule. The latter cannot maintain performance with a 6-6 schedule.
- bumby 2y agoA sleep cycle is roughly 90 minutes. Is there evidence that ~5 continuous cycles is any better/worse than 5 non-continuous ones?
- psunavy03 2y agoAs a former aviator JO . . . you're drinking the Kool-Aid. You didn't need to do that, you just did it.