Some people say it's all about the money. And for me, it's about the money too, along with 98 other things why I love working on ships. So on one starry night, with a cold beer in my left hand and a few more bottles behind me, this idea popped into my head. I...
If you stay long enough in your seafaring profession, you begin to see and experience crazy and unexpected things. This happened to me in a form of a promotion. And who doesn’t like one? Well, if you were just living a carefree life on board and didn’t care much about...
Crew change is very much overdue for many seafarers at sea during this pandemic. According to the IMO, there are approximately 400,000 seafarers whose contract is expired and can not go home. That figure also translates to another 400,000 sailors who can not join...
Seafarers nowadays demand frequent connection to their loved ones. The introduction of roaming SIM cards and WIFI internet made our world smaller and smaller as connectivity with our family becomes more accessible. Unfortunately, WIFI internet is not yet fully...
Travelling to London was one of my best shore leave experience in my whole career as a seafarer! It was filled with uncertainty, excitement, fear, surprises and thrills. Mixed emotions were running around me but everything went perfectly well even if I only made a...
Fantastic shore leave don't just happen. You plan for it and make it happen. Aside from earning dollars, mobility a.k.a shore leave is the next perk a seafarer has. We are given opportunities to taste a bit of every port whether we stay there for twenty-four hours or...
A few days ago, we visited Aalborg, the fourth largest city of Denmark situated in the northern part. When talking about Denmark, it is usually synonymous to "expensive" due to their high standard of living, just like any Scandinavian countries (others being Norway,...
When you go ashore, you travel from water to dry land. This is always what seafarers do when they are in port as most of their time is spent at sea. But not all seamen go ashore. Not all seafarers are convinced of the benefits shore leave has on our physiology. Due...
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