In shipping, there are a lot of different sorts of crazy individuals who want to risk making a life, at sea. And, onboard any ship, you typically have three departments separating duties and tasks between them. The Deck Department along with the Engineering and Steward Department, consist of licensed and unlicensed personnel.
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This week started out very tumultuous.
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I hope you’ve all enjoyed your Fourth of July. It ended up to be a quiet evening, here, as I had to work the Watch between 4pm until midnight and every night at that time. One thing of interest,however that I did do, that day- I had walked over to the local Seaman’s Club for a noon time ice tea. There, I happened upon some mariners off a local container ship, the Motor Vessel Maunalei, as it was being loaded and unloaded at the port in Apra harbor, just across from where our ship was ‘berthed’. It’s owned and operated by Matson Navigation, the same outfit I interned as a cadet during the Summer of 1998 on board the container ship, the M/V Mokihana.
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