5/11/2015
12:40 PM
Drills,
more drills and even more drills. Damn ! Already had enough on this, Fire
drill, Oil pollution , Drill, Abandon ship Drill, Man over Board drill , etc.
there seems to be no end on this until at least after the U.S. Coast Guard
inspections. "God" Captain
Sorin takes no chances at all in any lapses, - I'm not saying that drills
aren't necessary, Its just basically
getting tiresome doing the same thing every day. If there is anything good
about this drill , its only for the personal information about my what role
will I do.
On the first drill, which is a fire drill I made a mistake of not
reporting and finding chief mate Alexey Shaley first before preparing the fire hose. On the second drill, which is an abandon ship
drill , I later found out that I was among the four people who will unlash the
life boat, (the other three were , BOSUN Diosana, Pumpman Sepulveda and A.B.
Ryan Osiang) . Anyway I will later cleared this up after the drill.
On May 08,
2015, in the afternoon there was a video showing after coffee break which
basically is a boring one. Soon after another discussion meeting followed and
wasn't really interesting, Mostly just threats and more workload for us coming
from our " GOD" Captain.
Bastard even cancelled out Saturdays and Sundays work off. Aside from the
cancellation of rest days , he also mentioned that if ever this ship gets
caught by the coast guard about garbage disposal issue and this ship gets fined
, he will deduct the said fine on our salaries . What the hell !!
On work on
the bond store, Third mate corales , has told me that I should never sell
anything (or dispense) anything without his permission first. Its sort of like
an unwritten rule. Anyway as for the bond store handling, I could say that I'm
doing basically well. I just had to keep in mind of coordinating stuff
frequently to third mate corales and that all items bought by the crew should
be well accounted for - not an item more or an item less.
In other
news
Lately I
found out via gossip on the crew mess that some people here are getting envious
about the gear I wore during work . Not that I mind at all but the problem here
is that some people here just couldn't keep their mouth shut in bothering
people and try as the best they could to "defunct" the equipment I use, Honestly what could they
possibly gain by just saying that my equipment is not suited on this kind of
work ? . For their ignorant knowledge the equipment I use in working on the
ship doesn’t compromise safety of any kind at all and I had been using (and
improving) the designs on those equipment's for years.
Most likely
the reason why this people are so intrigued is probably because of jealousy.
This jealous pricks have nothing better to do but ruin and crap on other
peoples work. This kind of sailors just can't take on the reality that some
people are more better equip and had better stuff than them. Surprises me a lot
that they have been on this job for decades and yet their brains haven't
developed any tools or equipment that would helped them on their work - More
mind blowing is that they never focused their brains on improving something (or
showing any signs of ingenuity ).
Honestly I
can't exactly tell whether which one is more envious over the other on my
equipment. 3rd mates corales or captain sorin both exhibit
"marker" behaviors on that ,
and since I had been around here on this job long enough to observe (and learn)
marker behaviors of people , it's not that hard for me to tell and figure out
on what goes inside in their minds. In any case I should be careful.
In other
news
Lately I
heard that coast guards (or some sort of inspectors) conduct also a random
cabin to cabin search and check crews computers if anything unusual is stored
on it like prohibited type of porn etc. Well bringing porn is ok if a ship is
staying in European countries permanently and Europeans don’t mind having all
sorts of porn on a sailors computer however
but if a ship is doing trade in the united states then it would be
prudent wise for a sailor not to be storing in any kind of porn in their
computers whatsoever, it would be difficult to take any chances that
authorities will find something out on those files.
If it's
totally unavoidable like for example in my case, that I never foresaw that this
ship will be going in to United States (this ship is permanently based in
Europe but once in a while it goes in the U.S.A.). Then it's best to remove
them on the computer and store them on removable data like a secret hard drive
or an SD card then hid it on somewhere
where people can't find it. Another thing aside from that is that if a sailor
have some of sophisticated file encryption and total file destruction program (
anti- cyber forensic programs) available, then its best to use them afterwards
to avoid any sensitive data from being seen. To simply put it , remove all porn
from the computer and store it on an SD card or hard drive then, sanitize the
computer using anti cyber forensic programs. Most sailors do not know this kind
of procedure and probably a lot of them don’t have access to anti cyber
forensic programs.
Fortunately
on my case I do have these kind of programs and will be moving all my sensitive
files and porn on a much safer location then sanitize my computer using those
programs. My programs aren't updated yet I think they're sufficient enough to
at the very least deter any sensitive data from being uncovered, if in case a
random computer search will be conducted. Port authorities may or may not
conduct these kind of searches given that this is random. I would like to
discuss more on this blog the general specifics and details of how an
anti-cyber forensic programs work in general, and even discuss programs that
encrypt sensitive files altogether with file recovery programs, however given
with the complexity of discussion and terminology - most sailors on this blog
will never probably understand what I'm talking about, and even younger
generations of sailors will not even fully understood it. But despite this I'm
going to share my knowledge for the public and for the sake of the maritime
community here in the Philippines and will be also uploading the programs to
wipe my hard drive on my public storage (courtesy of Microsoft's One drive
cloud storage).
We live on
the 21st century and communication and sharing knowledge is now readily
available thru the use of social media and public cloud storage - unlike 20
years ago were it wasn’t even thought possible - you just simply relay on bogus
tales coming from other veteran sailor and listen to them on "good
fate" alone. Now Sailors have now access to internet and communication ,
and now you see sailors like me maintaining a blog, face book and twitter
account to document everything from scratch.
Hopefully I
might finish my work in surveying life in a boat before I retire from this job
and I have one hell of a story to tell. I guess that will be my contribution to
the maritime community here in the Philippines, AN ACTUAL (and documented)
SURVEY OF LIFE ONBOARD AND LIFE AS A SAILOR.
5/12/2015
6:43 AM
After a few
days of rough seas, finally the seas is getting much calmer now and much to my
relief my sea sickness has subsided for now. Apparently from what I heard from
A.B. Ryan Osiang is that this ship will now be stationed here in the America's
PERMANENTLY , much to my dismay - it looks like that this will be the situation
from that and on after the transatlantic transit and it won't be anytime soon
that this ship will be back in Europe at least not until my contract expires.
Anyway in
today's work. I'm kept myself pressed on grinding and compressing all the trash
from the garbage compartment, and since NSB ships don’t have a "grinding
machine" for plastic related trash
- I'm stuck cutting each of it manually using either a pair of scissors or a
cardboard box cutter. (good thing my cutters, have sharp blades).
After the
no brainer work, O.S. Bantic rang in on my phone and invited me for a drink on
his cabin along with Pumpman Sepulveda, A.B. Osiang and Bosun Diosana. Well
there's no issue on being social, after all folks here are more friendlier
compared to the folks in Cape tallin , So I decided to went ahead. Well folks
on
Folks on
O.S. bantic's cabin are very nosy when it comes to other people's lives and
kept asking about personal details including love life. Obviously I'm not very
good at talking and made it a rule to myself to never ever talk about my
personal details especially to strangers.
