Passage peeing

[Gary Fox]

I thought everyone did that?

I have always had red lights in saloon and heads but I am now told this is nonsense?

If you have some dark sunglasses handy, this works:

If you awake, having to go on watch at night, put on sunglasses. It preserves quite a lot of the 100% night vision acquired while alseep, but easily lost while trying to pull your boots on, light the cooker etc.
Or if you are on watch at night, properly using your night vision to keep a lookout and see the compass, but you need to pop below: put your shades on! Then you can use the light in the heads or chart table without totally ruining your night vision.

(Red for dimmed lighting is presently back in favour, after being supposedly de-bunked. There are trillions of surveys, experiments and studies, most seem to agree that red is better for dimmed lighting.)

 

[pyrojames]

The problem I have is that under red light, my eyes are not good enough to read anything on the chart, so I have to use full white...

 

[mjcoon]

The problem I have is that under red light, my eyes are not good enough to read anything on the chart, so I have to use full white...

Hmm, I wonder if back-lighting the chart would help. A tablet, say, could provide even lighting in any desired colour to experiment with...

 

[Gary Fox]

Hmm, I wonder if back-lighting the chart would help. A tablet, say, could provide even lighting in any desired colour to experiment with...

Good idea, althoughit might not work if the chart had print in the back as well.

 

[Kukri]

The problem I have is that under red light, my eyes are not good enough to read anything on the chart, so I have to use full white...

Snap! Same here. I tried the little chart light on a stalk for white light where I needed it and I might as well have used the Aldis lamp.

 

[LadyInBed]

If you really want to know, nearby, you’d cut blocks of compressed snow/ice and make a shelter (just low walls and no roof) around a designated peeing place. And as we were always on exercise and not in a real conflict situation, there would be a chemical loo to sit on for a No 2. Leaving piles of human faeces around wouldn’t be the best way to keep the Norgies onside. It did lead to the surreal experience of sitting on a chemical loo in subzero temperatures inside a low walled ice and snow enclosure looking over a frozen landscape of ice and snow and mountains etc. There were no ladies present. You did ask…

Chemical loo! We were told to to dig down through snow untill we reached tera firma then dig into frozen earth! You can guess how well that worked ?