ENTRY
JOURNAL DATED: July 20, 2016
Location : Somewhere Far east on the Somali coast
"Just
for the record this is a bad idea , if I ended up being hostage by Somali
pirates because of negligence of these blockhead Indian ship officers we have
here, I swear to god , I'm going to play Judas and help out the pirates on how
get to the citadel and open it myself"
- Unknown Filipino Sailor During G.O.A. Somali
Piracy Transit, July 2016 -
As expected
despite the anarchy reported and hostage taking, transiting Somalia area is
generally peaceful and nothing to worry about, and what's more to add to the
assurance is that we have an armed guard around to cover our asses.
But despite
all the confidence and assurance. Our Indian ship officers here exploited this
and wants us to do day work - WHAT THE FUCK !!!! Go outside and do our normal
routine of day work ! Right in the middle of a Somali pirate infested area ?!
You got to be shitting me ! Just for the record , this is a terrible and stupid
idea coming from our Indian chief mate. Now what kind of person in their right
mind do a day work on that kind of situation ? - I don’t know but it boggles my
mind on logic why the fuck , this Indian chief mate wants that. What is
exactly the fuck goes on in his mind ???
Honestly I
don’t see the reasonable judgement on why I have to go outside and do a routine
day work in the middle of a pirate watch besides that it's definitely unsafe to
be outside on the deck lollygagging on unimportant matters. These block head
Gandhi's didn’t realize the possibility that if ever there is a real pirate
attack and somehow they got lucky , one of us crew could end up being a
hostage.
Although
highly unlikely but , if I ended up being hostage by Somali pirates because of
negligence of these blockhead Indian ship officers here, I swear to god , I'm
going to play Judas and help out the pirates on how get to the citadel and open
it myself - So we can all go to hell -WHOLESALE !!!! (Geez I'm starting to
think Oiler Allan Sta. Maria was right quitting this ship early.). Cant end up
me being the only hostage do I ? I'm going to be relieved if all us end up
being hostage (imbecile Indian officers included) .
Anyway so
much for all that , so called Safety meeting and briefing shit yesterday -
practically useless talk and irrelevant now. I just hope that the three armed
guards would do their job in safe guarding this ship, while doing a day work.
Can't
imagine that I'm here right now on one of the worst possible places on earth
and on top of that , I'm not even getting paid for it. Fuck you Norstar Ship management and fuck you
too CF sharp for putting me here and changing my original ship assignment.
Speaking of
which, about the Irrelevant "Safety meeting" - Turns out that the
location of the beloved "citadel" (panic room) is the steering gear
room, worst place to pick if you ask me. Why ? The whole area has no decent
ventilation to start with and pirates can literary access the room easily
starting on the steering gear door and "skylight" hatch above, Were
secured on the sides entrances but not above entrance. In other words it's
basically a death trap and if any crazy ass pirate would be smart and desperate
enough to figure this out, he could just basically blow up any of the two
entrance door right on top of steering gear room and delivery death from above.
Luckily Somali pirates are not known for such mindless carnage and usually (if
not almost all) instead prefer capturing sailors alive for ransom, Besides
what's the use of a dead sailor anyway compared to a live one ? If it were not considering the safety of
armed security escorts here,. I could say that were all doomed.
Incidentally,
a small fishing vessel when straight ahead towards this ship Thursday
afternoon. Everybody dropped everything on what are they doing and went inside,
even the armed guards got alarmed and hurriedly went upstairs from the mess
room to the bridge and wore their bullet proof vest and armed themselves. The small fishing vessel went in close
proximity and incidentally had the stereo type appearance of a "pirate
mothership" (dilapidated rundown look) and small skiffs a few meters just
beside it. Fortunately the small fishing boat didn't change direction and just
passed by, and the skiffs never moved at all. In other words it was a false
alarm and was just a typical fishing boat in the middle of the sea or maybe it
saw that this ship has armed guards (via telescope) and decided that attacking
was a bad idea - who knows ? . In any case this scared the shit on most of the
people here, including our neglectful Myanmar ship captain. At about an hour after,
we all went back to our usual work. Me on the bridge as a lookout for pirate
ships and the others were on day work chipping rust.
