“Sailors life is completely an adventurous one. They face cramped, stark, noisy, and dangerous weather conditions at sea”. I joined ship on 6th Nov 2019 on a 3 months contract. My sign off was due on 6th February. But due to long voyage my sign off was not possible. Then a possibility of sign off […]
Imagine meeting the love of your life all from an Instagram post that by chance appeared on your suggested feed. It may seem unimaginable, but believe me it can happen as that is exactly what happened to me. My relationship all began thanks to cricket, in fact a Mumbai Indians match. The photo which appeared […]
There will a lot more qualities needed for becoming a good sailor’s wife but these few qualities needed at most. I have sailed on ships with my sailor and gone through with many phrases of his life (Onboard and ashore, before and after marriage). By my Experience and also observing other supernumeraries I have penned […]
On 23rd April, a Filipino 3rd Officer went missing from a Teekay Ship named as Jiaolong Spirit. After he went missing, family of the missing seafarer started a campaign, which asked for a thorough investigation in the case. The news became a big voice in the whole shipping industry. More detail can be read in […]
Feb 26, 2017 Bandaranaike International Airport, Sri Lanka. It was close to five in the evening, surrounded by strangers, I was seated on one of the chairs in the waiting room, tears were incessantly rolling down my cheeks, my hands were joined together as if my heart with each beat was praying for time to go […]
I came across a diary maintained by a mariner that spoke about the hardships and the agony the seafarer goes through being away from home for long periods of time. He had everything written from his point of view, somewhere I felt that this officer didn’t understand that his wife faced the same and much […]
