Liferaft rations?

[penfold]

I was working with a Spider ADS suit, when the pilot on a dive got snarled up with something around a wellhead. It was a problem, but while it was being resolved he amused himself by resorting to the emergency rations.
Emergency rations when there's only 72 hours of life support FFS. He reckoned that the food "wasn't too bad", however he was a Brummie, so I'd not give it a Michelin star based on that.
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Condemned parties usually get fed before being marched to the scaffold.

i would try very hard not to eat anything in case i needed a no 2...

Astronauts use nappies, maybe divers do the same?

 

[Little Dorrit]

On Scott's Antarctic expeditions the daily meals are described in great detail and it's quite clear how important it was for the victuals to include morale boosters, so I would invest in chocolate bars and some miniatures of Scotch whisky... in fact as I write I'm salivating at the thought of a chunk of chocolate washed down with a slug of whisky.

 

[Pete7]

Astronauts use nappies, maybe divers do the same?

Not unheard of now for even leisure divers doing very long decompression stops.

Nearest we got was toffees whilst decompressing after diving the wrecks of the WW1 Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow. They worked well and past the time often 40-60 minutes. You had to time it between breaths or put the toffee in your cheek to take a breath. Then we got adventurous and tried cartons of orange juice. First mouthful was okay but if you stopped to breath saltwater entered the carton and the next sip was yuk

 

[Kukri]

The old Lifeboat and Raft Ration biscuits in rectangular soldered tins were rather nice. I think these same biscuits turned up in Army compo rations?

 

[Praxinoscope]

The old Lifeboat and Raft Ration biscuits in rectangular soldered tins were rather nice. I think these same biscuits turned up in Army compo rations?

I don’t know what is put into Compo rations but I seem to have a recollection that you became constipated for two or three days, after which it felt as if ‘the World was dropping out of your bottom’.