A seaman life (a mariner at sea)

Being a Somali pirate looks like a profitable business from the outside and it is. The margins are as attractive as those in the software industry. Microsoft still makes 60% or better margins on its core Windows, business, and server operations. With the risks that the pirates take, they ought to do as well as that. The New York  Times  did a piece last year in which it estimated that the pirates would bring in $50 million in 2008. That number will be higher this year, by as much as four times. ( See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia. ) Most information on hijacked ships is that the ransom paid to get them back is about $2 million per vessel and crew. In some cases, the pirates actually charge an additional fee for the ships which has been estimated as being as high as $5 million. Based on 24/7 Wall St.'s evaluation of news reports, the Somali pirates are seizing near one ship per day now. This week, on a single day, they took over four vessels. Even though several lar...

Shrouded in lore and mystique, pirates built a fierce reputation upon their swashbuckling adventures that took place upon the high seas. They regularly raided and took over merchant ships, pillaged and plundered every chance they got, and enjoyed a free-spirited lifestyle that included plenty of partying and good times. However, things didn’t always go as planned and countless pirates died because of their chosen profession, and everything from illness to battle posed a threat to their existence. Although their success was sometimes short-lived, the appeal of a free-roaming pirate’s lifestyle is something that is still lusted after by many people to this day. Let’s take a closer look at the stories of some of history’s most famous pirates: Edward Teach (aka “Blackbeard”), 1680-1718 Perhaps the most famous pirate of all time, Blackbeard definitely lived up to his fearsome reputation. He was said to enter into every battle with a bevy of weapons including knives, pistols and two swords. ...

Story covered by website: The number of hostages killed or injured by Somali pirates increased significantly last year, according to a report by maritime officials. The International Maritime Bureau says 35 people who were held hostage by Somali pirates died in 2011. Levels of violence against seafarers in coastal waters around east Africa and the Gulf of Aden also remained high. While the number of successful hijackings decreased, hostages are being held for longer, the report said. Most of the hostages who died were killed while trying to escape during rescue operations. The other deaths were directly at the hands of the pirates or due to malnutrition or disease during captivity. Brutality While figures for hostages killed in previous years are patchy, the report says the 2011 figure does reflect a significant increase, and accounts for 3% of the total number of hostages taken. BBC Africa analyst Mary Harper says it used to be rare for hostages to die in captivity since their value w...

Maritime piracy and armed robbery against ship are one of the contemporary challenges of the maritime industry. These two phenomena have a global impact on maritime trade and security. Nowadays, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean are considered high risk areas in terms of piracy and armed robbery against ships activities. In this regard, both the international community and the coastal States of the region have deployed every effort to try to find ways to address the problem. Being part of the region, Madagascar faces the same challenges like the coastal States of the Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean region in terms of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships threat level, and the organization as well as the response capacity to tackle these crimes. The following research paper proposes a piracy response model for Madagascar by analyzing the manifestation of the modern maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships, the existing international and national legal fr...

If you want to be a reputed and respected seafarer, young generation of Maliku should follow the footsteps of our predecessors who were known as most disciplined dedicated sincere and hard working seafarers in the world and that was the golden era of Minicoy seamen, whereas being a Minicoy seaman itself was sufficient enough qualification to be recruited to the company. The valour of the sacrifices they made will remain unmatching. I am a son of a seafarer who had served as a bosun and an inland master and hence well aware of the hardships of a seafarer than any one else akin to many of our ages....There were days when I waited for months, some times an year, or more to see the my beloved father...at times i used to think how my father will look like and even asked myself whether would he be able to recognize me after such a long time, obviously a childish question...!!! Even my younger brother who is a chief engineer is onboard now during this pandemic far away in New York, miles away...

1. Why the bathrooms and toilets were *outside* our houses and not *inside*. 2. Why we should not touch anything or anybody when we return from a barbershop or a funeral. You may return to normalcy *only* after having a bath immediately. 3. Why the footwear has to be kept outside the house and not inside. 4. Why we have to wash our hands and feet when we returned from schools or outside after playing.  5. Why a mandatory 10 days isolation / quarantine (especially at a birth or death) in traditional households. 6. Why the households must not cook if there's a dead body inside the house.   7. Why the washing of discarded clothes has to be done outside the house and not inside. 8. Why was it mandatory to be clean and have bath before cooking for the house. 9. Why once you have had bath, you were not supposed to physically touch those who did not. Maintaining physical hygiene, social distance and cleanliness were laughed at, ridiculed, insulted, systematically breaking these tradi...

Ashwatthama became very angry when his father Dronacharya was killed in the Mahabharata war.  He left a very terrible weapon "Narayana Astra" on the Pandava army.  No one could retaliate it. It used to fire people and immediately destroy those who have weapons in their hands and are seen trying to fight.  Lord Shri Krishna ordered the army to leave their weapons and keep folding hands silently.  And said do not even bring the idea of ​​war to mind, it also identifies and destroys them.  Narayan Astra slowly calmed down when his time expired.  In this way, the Pandava army was protected.  Justify this story episode?  Everywhere the battle does not succeed. To avoid the wrath of nature, we should also leave all the work for some time, silently folding hands, keeping a good mind in mind and stay in one place.  Only then will we be able to survive its havoc.  The corona will also cool down by completing its time period.  Lord Shri Krish...

1.  "We will do it.",            means      " You will do it." 2.   "You have done a great job.",            means "More work will be given to you." 3. "We are working on it.",           means "We have not yet started working on the same." 4. "Tomorrow first thing in the morning . . .",             means "Its not getting done. At least not tomorrow !". 5.   "After discussion we will decide. I am very open to views.",           means "I have already decided. I will tell you what to do" 6.     "There was a slight mis communication.",            means "We had actually lied." 7.  "We are on the right track, but there needs to be a fine-tuning of the deadline.",             means "The project is screwed up, we cannot deliver on time." 8. "We had sligh...

Merchant Navy, a profession which always got ignored, merchant navy a profession which is always seen as bore, today all world go in isolation nd everyone care, we always lives in isolation world still no one cares, today this corona spread nd we still care, we still serve the world without in the same way nd b fair,  coz this is us we never complain nd we still  care, No one praise us still we serve nd still we care, coz behind every peaceful breath there is a nightmare which every seamen feel once he is out to smwhere, In the end it will be nt ryming worlds but jus wanna say u guys tk cr, Coz Coz Coz Tough men are out at sea....... Cheers b happy stay safe... Nd fr us who cares......????????

*DETAILED ITINERARY FOR TODAY'S EXCURSION PROGRAMM  *GUIDED TOUR* *8:00 am* - Departure from the Bathroom.   *8:30 am* - Arrival at the Kitchen & join a special Project of "Aqua Thermal treatment of Ceramics, Aluminium and Steel". *9:00 am*  Get hands on experience in preparation of sumptuous breakfast.   *9:30 am* - After breakfast we will visit the bedrooms to explore exquisite bedsheets and take part in workshop of making the bed. *10:00 am*- Then we will have another workshop where proper guidance and training will be imparted in how to wash the clothes. *11:00 am* - Added attraction - Sweeping and Mopping will also be allowed AT NO EXTRA COST. *1:00 pm*- Serve your specially cooked Lunch in the Dining Room and join others to enjoy the lunch. *2:00 pm* - Siesta on the sofa.   *5:00 pm*- In the evening, a visit to the Living Room, where hot tea and biscuits will be served.  *5:30 pm* Special adventure programme in cleaning the dishes. *6:00 pm* - Aft...

Dear friend, Do you believe how shore and land people think about hard work seaman??? How people compare and advertise their product with???? 😔😔😔😔

The captain and crew of the 'Vessel' pleaded guilty to attempted murder after throwing two stowaways into the Indian Ocean, off the South African coastline to avoid catching coronavirus from them. Captain watched as his crew built a makeshift raft roping together sealed plastic drums and plywood, then stopped his ship to dump the petrified pair overboard. Two stoways (thieves) were given just a life jacket and two bottles of water each and told which way to paddle with their hands to reach the nearest land. With no food to eat and at the mercy of the wind and sea currents, they were cast adrift on the high seas fearing being swamped by the waves or their raft falling apart at any moment. Three days and two nights later the Tanzanian stowaways were washed up exhausted onto a tourist beach at dusk on the KwaZulu-Natal coast about 50 miles north of Durban. They had drifted through one of the most shark-infested areas of the North Coast, near the Tugela River mouth frequented by Gr...

Life at sea is tough these days, not only because of perils that normally are at sea but also because of shore staff who just mess around to gain some points or bonus ... Such one's are mostly those who left sea prior completing 10 years (gross) of command or 10 years sailing as a CE. These are the ones who mostly are the problem makers for sailors as per my experiences... Those who have sailed beyond 10 years in command or as ce, are the better ones that I could rely on for advice in need. But just follow the following as a captain and chief engineer ... I write this basis my experiences at sea and hope it helps my fellow sailors (captain and chief engineers and all others) .... 01 ... Irrespective of commercial or operational pressures, crew always first. 02 ... Navigation is an art, do it slowly. 03 ... Ce runs the ship, Capt is the silent witness (I mean Atman) ... If you follow this, then no deck engine problems ever. 04 ... There cannot be two captains on board ... ship will ...

 1. The space between your eyebrows is called  a glabella.  2. The way it smells after the rain is called  petrichor.  3. The plastic or metallic coating at the end of  your shoelaces is called an aglet.  4. The rumbling of stomach is actually called a  wamble.  5. The cry of a new born baby is called a  vagitus.  6. The prongs on a fork are called tines.  7. The sheen or light that you see when you  close your eyes and press your hands on  them is called phosphenes.  8. The tiny plastic table placed in the middle  of a pizza box is called a box tent.  9. The day after tomorrow is called  overmorrow.  10. Your tiny toe or finger is called minimus.  11. The wired cage that holds the cork in a  bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.  12. The 'na na na' and 'la la la', which don't  really have any meaning in the lyrics of any  song, are called vocables.  13. When ...

One thing came to mind about career… .. after studying ‘Doctor’ people become ‘doctors’… but …….  .  After 'engineering' you can become anything from 'peon' to 'chief minister'….  And yes… .. ‘Luck’ stays with ‘Engineer’….  4  ………………….  That is to say… there is too much “scope” in “engineering” .. !!  4  Who says engineering becomes engineers only?  See for yourself:  Raghuram Rajan - RBI Governor (Electrical Engineer)  Kejriwal - Leader - Chief Minister (Mechanical Engineer)  AR Rahman-Musician- (Electronics Engineer)  Nagarjuna-Tamil Superstar  Akhilesh Yadav - CM - Uttar Pradesh (Civil environment engineer)  Anil Kumble - Coach of indian cricket team (mechanical engineer)  Ajit Jogi - Leader - Chief Minister  (Mechanical engineer)  Digvijay Singh - Leader - Chief Minister  (Mechanical engineer)  Nitish Kumar - Leader - Chief Minister  (Mechanical engineer)  .  The limit ...

International maritime Organization IMO's prime occupations:  1- How to add more annex in Marpol.  2- Explore more foolish and meaningless regulations like compulsory retrofit installation of  Ballast water treatment plants ( hand in gloves with installation companies ) 3- How to make MLC more useless by expanding on meaningless rituals like flag state complaint procedures. 4- How to make PSC inspections more and more ridiculous by adding new creative impossible regulations for ships crew and owners harassment. 5- Planning the next disastrous big regulation after the super flop IMO 2020 which filled the pockets of crony capitalist scrubber installation companies and shipyards. 6- where to organise the next super ball in five stars to discuss the plight of seafarers and ensure that no solution is found.

Beware of these 10 fake news: 1- An image of a city in Italy with several dead bodies. Fact: This is a scene from the movie Contagion 2- Jio lifetime free recharge for Rs.498/- Fact: Jio hasn't launched any such scheme. 3- Images of several people lying on the ground screaming for help. Fact: This is the picture from an art project of 2014. 4-  There's a cure for Novel Corona virus mentioned in a book by Dr. Ramesh Gupta. Fact: There is no such mention and no treatment for the virus has been identified so far. 5- Dr. Naresh Trehan from Vedanta Hospital has appealed for national emergency. Fact: No such appeal has been made by anyone. Only Government directives to be followed. 6- Image of a doctor couple who treated 134 patients before succumbing to the virus. Fact: The image is of a couple working in an airport.  7- Image of a medicine discovered for COVID-19. Fact: The image is of the test kit and not a medicine. 8- Corona virus has a life of only upto 12 hours. Fact: Corona ...

❤LuV STORY OF MARINE ENGG:❤ I was in 12th She was in 12th   I love her - she love me         I got MARINE ENGG She got BBA                                   I was doing Marine clearing back logs She got MBA I was preparing got CDC  She got married💔 I m doing 1ST sailing She's d mother of 2 children I got  4th Engineer Competancy after clearing exam Her daughter is in 1st stndrd, I became 2nd Engineer  Hr daughtr passd 10th, I hav joined as Chief Engineer Hr Daughtr passed  College. The Greatest irony- Today is my   ENGAGEMENT & Her daughtr is my WIFE .. Agle Janam Sala Marine Engg nahi banunga....! 

In Hamburg one vessel was inspected by water police ...sewage plant sample was taken and tested fr residual chlorine ..value found zero ..on insp of chlorine tablets dosing chamber ...there were no chlorine tablets found. Common PSC findings reg sewage plant is VV bypassed or seized ...all 3 Chambers found empty ..no flow observed ..body holed .. residual chlorine found zero ..fw in chem dosing tank as no chemical onboard ...stop hl alarm and pp auto start not functional ..disch pipe leaking ..sight glass not clear ..pumping out rate approved table not readily available on board... engineer s not familiarised ...effluent going overboard not checked ..PMS no entry of frequency of plant cleaning or maintenance schedule. Initially police wanted to arrest the CE fr discharge of untreated sewage water but after much pleading and explanation ..charge sheet was issued against the CE and bond of 1263.50 euro was issued .copies of his CDC and passport were taken.

जहाज़ी की गीता - १  (मुख्य अधिकारियों को समर्पित)  टैंक की सफाई और मोटे मौसम जैसी यातनाएँ को झेलने के बाद बिना किसी बेरिंग की सोनेाईश के लंगर पर खड़े जहाज़ और कागजी कार्रवाई की मोह माया मे लीन अपने पठ्ठे कैडेटों को निहारता, मुख्य अधिकारी जब हाँथ-कॉफी मैग के लिए सुबह की घड़ी मे पायलट की कुर्सी पर पसरा।  सोच रहा होता है कि जीवन का असली सुख यही है, केवल उसकी गलतीफ़हममी दूर करने मुरलीधर कृष्ण स्वयं पधारते हैं।  फिर शुरू होता है मुख्य अधिकारी के लिए गीता पाठ ...  1. CO- प्रभु, अगर यह नहीं तो फिर खुशी क्या है?  प्रमुख -  वेटिंग, पीएससी इत्यादि तमाम भवसागरों को पार करने के बाद, कंपनी के साथ पूछताछ भरे कई प्रेम पत्रों के इंटरैक्शन प्रदान के पश्चात, अंत में नाव बंद करके बैठे हुए मोड़-मोड़ कर जब आप फ्रैंक को भावनात्मक संबंधी से निहारने होते हैं, वत्स,  उसी क्षण असली खुशी का क्षण है।  2. ईर्ष्या क्या है?  प्रमुख -  किसी खड़ूस SIRE इंस्पेक्टर द्वारा डेक पर दो टिप्पणियों पर किए जाने के बाद जब आप मुझसे प्रार्थना करते हो कि इंजन रूम में कम से कम त...

HANDING OVER NOTES. Dear onsignee Capt. This good ship, Welcome's your membership. Down is engine, up is wheel house. In between is all penthouse. Anchor is holding, #'s r folding , all good with ballasting, Oh crew- some need scolding others still under moulding. Read the SMS books... written by all crooks. PMS is updated... Prov is outdated... so crew r irritated... anyone making noise r deleted. The shelves r bending... with requisitions which r pending.. Owners don't like spending... U can keep them reminding... but they will keep smiling... Report to Suptd if something not running... he loves the chance to make some earning. Charterers r the best.... they never let u rest. 2nd Mate sleeps on chart table... but only when bechara is able... Ch Mate is Great... but only if u don't take his parade... C/E as usual, an opposition party.... always conspiring with E/Rm party... Wanna finger them just in case... Block shore leav...

My wife forced me to help her in the kitchen... And I started inspection of kitchen. I found very serious short comings in maintaining kichen  _My major Observations_ ...    1. *There is no Stock Register  maintained* .  *Procurement is not in line with consumption  pattern or any Menu Planning* .  *Purchase orders are placed verbally* .  *Inventory Replenishment  levels not defined* 2. *There is no any budgeting documents available.*  3. *There is no indexing of products.*  4. *No bin cards are displayed* .  5. *No annual, monthly or quarterly stock taking carried out.*  6. *No inspection has been carried out for years. Most of the spoons and plates are of the wrong pattern and do not match with the original part number.* 7. *No procedure of  inventory valuation* .  8. *Weighing scale non existent* 9. *No handing over/taking over files maintained.*  10. *No SOP  or Menu displayed*  11. *Fire fight...

A Mariner signed off from merchant ship at sikka port, Gujrat and went to quarantine for 14 days in Jamnagar. After completion of quarantine period he got medical certificate and apply for e pass as per MHA Govt of India, vied Oder no 40-3/2020-DM-I. e-Pass No. has been issued to him and started travel fromJamnagar to his home state by car. When He reached my state border  check post, the Police person not allow me to enter my state and said that they will not entertain such e pass. They will allow only  if supdt of police of the districts orderd them. I stuck in the middle of the road near checked post as He was not able to communucate with SP of the district. he try to communicat to my local police staion but nobody is bother of e pass. He does not know what to do now and surely he would fall sick if stuck on the road. He request those police personal several time and show the govt order but they are so rude to me in behaviour that he was a criminal not a seaman...

SHAME POLICE AND SHAME SHAME DISTRICT COLLECTOR Received from some other mariner group .... What a joke the crew change has become in India !!!! Joiner/off signer have crew/officers sitting in quarantine centre. All tested with certificates showing negative. All have E-Pass ( as per DG) All have taxis ready to take them to their hometowns by road But cannot travel home !!!!! Commissionar says Collector needs to FURTHER endorse the E-Pass !!!! What ??? Why ??? Says who ??? Never mind - we need endorsements. So Collector’s office - then - off we go. Except Collector now says SP will endorse - really ??? Ok - we go to SP next. SP now says (an hour ago) Port immigration will endorse !!!! Welcome to Indian bureaucracy.... But the government allowed for joining/sign off.... All instructions follow by company as per central government order....

This is story of one of seafarer. This is Chief officer sailing on tankers fleet. He was lucky enough to sign off from Paradip, Orissa during lockdown in may 2020.. wish to share my story with all of you especially seafarers .. he joined  ship on Dec 2019 and contract was toll Mid May.. looking at global scenario of this pandemic He had lost any hopes of signing off and returning back anytime sooner and was mentally prepared to sail for few more months .but beleive me sailing beyond your contract especially at rank is difficult.. the job is very demanding..and requires more than 100 percent effort ..especially in this pandemic situation..where we have to work more to maintain social distancing onboard from visitors like authorities, Loading masters , surveyors .. When ship got the voyage to India .it was the time We thought this is the moment.. needy to get off the ship .. else will be stuck here for many months. Company took notice of this opportunity and swung into action....

*Covid scenario off a offsigner*   Signed off at Mumbai and went for quarantine at Mumbai for 28 days... Later travelled to his home state using e-pass and finally taken to quarantine again there  for 28 days... Reached home safely after 56 days... His mobile rings on next day... Call from his company asking to join next ship... It’s part of a joke but many time in normal conditions it’s true......