"I will start from scratch on this new ship, but
I have done so successfully before. When I started out a few years ago I only
relied on my strength and vigilance. Survivalism has never baffled me, as it
has so many others. Such principles just makes sense in me. I will lead my
family to great riches, and Career Ship management will profit once I had my
share"
APRIL
05, 2015 Sunday
After
being notified by Career Shipping company on such a short notice, and getting
the plane ticket in just a few hours before the actual despatch (can you
imagine me hurling my way on such long distance from my home) and successfully
making it all the way to Taragona, Spain along with five others. Only the four
of us proceeded directly out of the airport and into Conti Agulhas (what no
hotel accommodations??) and one was left to the hotel to be followed in joining
us on the latter.
While
writing this , I had been on CONTI AGULHAS for a couple of hours now, staying
on the Suez cabin temporarily and making observations. So far I won't be able
to make yet a full analysis on my situation, but here's some information I had
gathered within just a couple of hours. CONTI Agulhas seems to be having
problems with the water supply and as far as I'm concerned and this affects
basic stuff like laundry and potable water (one litre of mineral water allowed
only for now per person as opposed to my previous ship Conti Greenland were
there's an abundance of water).
One
observation I made something about this ships current captain. From what I
heard on rumours spreading on my
previous ship they're not saying anything positive about this so called Captain
"Soren" guy. I asked a few folks here on CONTI Agulhas and they say
the captain is an OK guy but they're comments are somewhat restrained and
hiding something, or their comments are somewhat fake on my intuition, - not
exactly sure for now but it gives me a nasty impression that something might be
wrong on the surroundings.
Another
observation I had made is when I had a small chat on the O.S. I'd be replacing.
He mentioned something that folks around here are easier to get along with and
theirs so called "harmony" , Honestly when he mentioned that, It
raised my suspicion that people here might not be going along well and based
from my experience both from STOLT Strength and more recently Cape Tallin - you
don’t mention those kinds of words (or highlight it) when everything is exactly in good harmony, but like I said I haven't
made my mind yet on what's the general situation on-board this ship given that
I had just arrived.
As
for the folks here, I had been familiar with Pump man Thanny and chief cook
Pineda from Conti Greenland and their Ok and for the moment all the other folks
I saw are somewhat less of a threat for now (or my data and observations is
still incomplete). However theirs a folk here whom I encountered on Cape Tallin
and obviously I'm not in good terms with him ever since my days there. To be
specific I'm mentioning 3rd mate German Tan Corales (the predecessor of Third
Made Byron Fourie in Cape Tallin) who happens to be now the current 3rd mate of
Conti Agulhas, He's not much of a threat in general but the problem is that he
knows my past being in a call centre before and that kind of information is
very dangerous and damaging when I work as a sailor. Worse part of it is that
this guy sucks on keeping confidential information and sooner or later I
suspect that this fucker will spill in the beans and damage my reputation when
I'm really having a bad day. Regardless it’s a good thing that NSB ships have
only a life span contract of six months maximum and after that I'd be starting
again on a clean slate, So whatever the damage this might incur, it will only
be temporarily and will not hurt a lot in general.
For
the flora and fauna around Conti Agulhas, basically this ship is just almost an
exactly replica of CONTI Greenland, the piping systems , the arrangement of
rooms and even positions of equipment are very much the same. Based on the
rumours I heard about Conti ships, it looks like that indeed their claims are
correct and each of the six Conti Ships are exactly alike to each other. The
only difference is that this Conti Agulhas is more of a Chemical Tanker rather
than a Full fledge Oil tanker like in Conti Greenland
For
now my general observations on life in Conti Agulhas is that there is a present
danger but not enough to make my hairs stand given with my experience , But in
the meantime as a friendly warning I better be careful and watch my back.
In
other news….
Certainly
took me a while to finally get used to my surroundings, For the moment my data
and analysis is still incomplete on the flora and fauna of Conti Agulhas and I
can only give the basics of my situation here.
On
the moment Conti Agulhas structure and layout is very similar (if not alike) on
Conti Greenland ship. From the individual cabins - all the way to the piping
system and railings , as if like I was totally warped back to Greenland. I had
no trouble in memorizing the surroundings , the only difference is were
equipment's are supposedly to be located.
In
the meantime , this ship is currently in Tarragona, Spain discharging Naptha.
Some sort of "white" petroleum products, (though I'm not exactly sure
if this is a poisonous version of naptha ). Discharge operations were finish on
the span of only two days and the next port is still in Spain with only a six
hour difference, Soon after the discharge I took care of the essentials like
washing my civilian clothes and take a bath (haven't cleaned myself up until I
left the Philippines)
