October
13, 2018 Tuesday
Enroute
to Perth Australia
Yesterday
marks my 60th day here, and without any stressful situations or incidents.
The
Papua New Guinean exploits went in very quick, and although shore leave was
totally impossible due to the ship mooring in a buoy (SBM , also known as ship buoy mooring in nautical terms) at least
the work load was very light compared to the traditional port facility.
Basically most of my work there is just babysitting a buoy on which the ship is
moored at and see if the ship is aligned, and that’s about it.
Despite
the announcement made by this ships Indian captain that we will be expecting
visitors specifically customs and immigration authorities, it turns out that it
was just a deception and that this uwak captain is just paranoid. The only
persons that came in is a mooring master, a ships agent and a loading master.
Nothing more
So
I guess there won't be cabins inspections and checking of hard drives which is
good for me.
During
work I manage to take the liberty in taking pictures while no one was around.,
of course I made sure that I'm alone in taking pictures and had to be careful
since people here are not that trust worthy - Filipino's or any other
nationality alike.
I
took pictures on how SBM looks like in the actual , this info and pictures will
be invaluable as a reference and knowledge.
My actions on taking pictures may violate some "safety"
standards on a tanker but people who would say that are stupidly ignorant and
do not know the value of knowledge nor even thinking of what we can learn from
it. Dangerous or not ITS IS STILL
KNOWLEDGE FOR ME , AND THEREFORE MUST BE STUDIED AND LEARNED FROM.
