JOURNALS OF A FILIPINO SEAMAN

After waiting for some time on the news regarding my upcoming disembarkation, It seems that there is now an information about it. The latest news that I heard and was notified on memo was that who will be the guys replacing us and I already saw on paper on who is going to replace me. For now it's just a name drop and there is no specific details yet on the date and flight schedule, but it's good to hear that my return to the Philippines would be very soon. Upon confirming this information, I immediately prepared to pack my luggage in case there's a possibility that my disembarkation will be on short notice.  The only problem I have for the moment is the "where" and not the when part on disembarkation. Its rumoured that its possible that my batch will disembark in Ecuador which from what I know is not exactly a "convenient" for travellers especially on the joining / departing crew. From what I heard Ecuador , Is very similar to the Philippines when it com...

Some videos i made during my stay on my previos ship , hope that in anyway this will be useful Unmooring work Putting fenders for ship to ship mooring ops Anchor dropping , gravity type with audio

ENTRY MADE OCTOBER 12, 2015 MONDAY Past few days have no significant thing that happened well at least not anything that’s very important, for the moment this ship is still stuck in anchorage in Panama (pacific side) and I have no idea on what are they still waiting here for. My suspicion will be that there's an incoming vetting inspection probably on this ships next destination. There's a lot of hints that vetting inspection will be on next port and that the two of us O.S. are currently doing work in the engine room and painting some stuff. Our presence in the engine room apparently is not met with question and as a matter of fact I myself ask on why the hell am I doing there when I'm supposedly doing work on the deck. Even the BOSUN is figuring out why where currently doing work there. Us deck crew suspect that chief engineer is behind this. In other news… Wiper Glenn's replacement has arrived a few days ago. A brand new engine cadet and without any past work experien...

ENTRY LOG MADE ON OCTOBER 02 , 2015 Just another tiring day again on work, and it’s a bit busier than the usual because today was supposedly the day this ship is going to cross panama canal. Work was already suspended at noon time to give way for us to rest and the only thing we did was pull out a few more mooring ropes in the aft and forward area. From what I recall we pulled out on 6 ropes forward and 4 ropes aft.  After that noon time wasn't exactly a rest time and all of us crew had to help out on the provisions , on my part in particular is the bond store. Handling on the provisions on the shore side was apparently piss poor job on the ship chandlers side and there were some items that got broke during it was being transferred from the supply boat to our ship and as a result a few item got broken in the process, luckily no case of beer was broken nor even wine bottles. As for the bond store matters, it turns out that the Budweiser beer purchased here was way too expensive, as ...