ENTRY LOG:
July 18, 2016 Monday
Location:
Nairobi, Kenya
Although It
was highly unlikely that our Myanmar 2nd engineer would quit on his job, He did
pass his repatriation request - and what's written in his letter is disembark
on next convenient port. Up to now it's not clear what is his reasons why he
quit his work, but it's obvious that maybe he quit the job because this ship is
not a comfortable working environment to begin with and almost all of the crew
agree on that matter.
In any
case, this adds to the list of the number of people who are supposedly going to
disembark.
In other
news
Other
anti-piracy measures have been put up such as dummies' (though highly
ineffective because of the material used to make it) which had toy guns and
fire hoses (doubtful on the fact that most of these are broken) , anyway
despite the ineffectiveness of these measure's , I'm relieved that there's an
armed guard around so in cases of any pirate gets smart enough to try to even
board - the armed guards will be happy
enough to pepper them with bullets. Of course for us sailors, when that happens
- we will be rushing to our makeshift "citadel" (actually it's called
a "panic room" on land) , cowering like helpless civilians. Armed
guards are really necessary here, since this ship travels at a very slow rate
like a 17 century wooden one, slow as a damn cow and chances are, without any
armed security this ship could easily be captured by would be Somali
pirates
At about
6pm July 18 , the DNV inspectors disembarked and was swapped in by armed guards boarded this ship. It was a
chore hauling off their heavy luggage's , but I did little of the work and let
the others do most of it. After all I'm not in the mood and had little
motivation to work on this pathetic ship (because of salary issues) - I just
made it to look like I'm doing something. By midnight , I went to the bridge
and asked third officer if the pirate watch will start, lucky for me it wasn't
and was told to go back to sleep.
