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| Can you imagine that your worst boss in real life would be pictured here as a saint and a hero ??! WHAT THE FUCK ???! why don't they just stab my heart with a stake huh ?! anyway sailors are meant to be deceptive in the first place , only shows their character that they don't tell the truth. Maybe one day when my biography gets the big screen or Hollywood , i get to choose the actor to be the heroic one like alden richards (from eat bulaga tv show) etc... nah !!! that idea is pathetic hehhehe |
In
a few days' time we will be saying goodbye to 2015 and will be greeting 2016,
Amazing that one year just went by in a snap and being in prison with the ship
for six months was tolerable.
Lately
I had watched the film, known to sailors as "Captain Phillips" . This
film is well known to any sailors around the world especially Filipino sailors
and believe it or not it was nominated on the Oscars, this film was based on
the height of Somali piracy few years back. In this case it was a ship named
"Maersk Alabama" was attack and its American captain was held hostage
and on the later was rescued by the U.S. navy
The
film was average and mediocre at best on my perception but it took my curiosity
to at least do a background research about it. The thing I never expected was
the film should be at least historically accurate, well unfortunately it turns out too far from the
historical accuracy of the events nor even the portrayal of real life
characters in the movie is entirely based on a person's single bias testimony.
Anyway the film was made purely for cinematic and money making purposes only
and does not cover the facts and reality - just like the film "brave
heart" (starring Mel Gibson)
The
film features Captain Phillips who is being pictured as the heroic captain who
has no fault , brave and a dedicated sailor. If it were not for his actions the
whole crew would have perished in the hands of Somali pirates.
For
the people reading this , I will not go on describing the film and let the
people watch the film themselves and analyze the facts from cinema, what I can
say on the summary is that it was not historically accurate and doesn’t even
come close to facts. What I'm going to write now is the reality of the
situation. First off Captain Phillips in reality is the "asshole
type" captain (horrible bosses - least to say), he wasn't the hero of the
day and it was not even his efforts why the crew was saved, people onboard that
ship figured out during the pirate attack that it was best that they don’t
listen to the captain and hid in the engine room, (in the movie it was ordered
by Philips that they hid in the engine room)
Fact
is his attitude was so obnoxious that people refuse to be assigned on the ship
he's stationed at . He doesn’t even fit the criteria for a diligent captain and
ignored the safety part on putting up anti-piracy measures which already
existed back then (putting up barbed wire) . In the movie there was not a
single Filipino sailor around , when it fact in reality there was a Filipino
crew. Another thing in the movie portrayed was that his crew is nothing more
than coffee break lazy workers who are comfortable hiding in the worker union's
protection and he is the only one who seems to be concerned about the pirate
attack during that time (in reality it was the other way around). Anyway I
don’t think the producers of the movie has nothing to do with the wayward story
, basically they just based the story on the warped perception of reality by
Mr. Phillips - even if it was bias , unfair and totally unrealistic, not to
mention deceptive. The thing here overall is that people should think about is
that if Mr. Phillips testimony is inaccurate and unreliable then its only
concludes that he's credibility is poor and reflects his character to be really
an arrogant asshole shitty kind of captain .
People
should seriously ponder about this….
For
me, if this was the case then captain Phillip's got what he deserves - to be
abducted and beaten by Somali pirates. Anyway its no surprise for me that the
tale told in the movie is a far cry of facts, what I can tell first hand as a
sailor myself , is that generally sailors and to be specific Ship Captains are
one of the worst kind of people in society - and expect them not to be telling
the truth, .
People
will never get to understand sailors, and will never know the truth about it.
What I'm saying is that not all sailors are bad people and not all of them are
good either, in fact generally mostly sailors are more generally inclined to
being more of a bad people than good.
THE FACTS I HAD READ IN FACEBOOK (repost from new york times)
New York Post
NEWS
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Crew members: ‘Captain Phillips’ is one big lie
By Maureen Callahan October 13, 2013 | 3:34am
Crew members: ‘Captain Phillips’ is one big lie
"Captain Phillips" star Tom Hanks with Capt. Richard Phillips. Photo: AP Photo/StarPix, Dave Allocca
It’s made for Hollywood: the story of an average American family man, captain of a cargo ship in dangerous waters, his vessel overtaken by armed Somali pirates demanding ransom, saving his crew by allowing himself to be removed from the boat and taken hostage.
All of this is the basis for “Captain Phillips,” starring Tom Hanks as the titular, real-life hero. The only problem, say some members of the real Capt. Phillips’ crew, is none of it is true.
Capt. Richard Phillips, they say, is no hero, and the film is one big lie.
The Maersk Alabama leaving the Port of Mombasa, Kenya in 2009.Photo: AP Photo/Sayyid Azim
“Phillips wasn’t the big leader like he is in the movie,” says one crew member, who, for legal reasons, spoke with The Post anonymously. He worked very closely with Phillips on the Maersk Alabama and was alarmed by his behavior from the beginning. Phillips, he says, had a bad reputation for at least 12 years prior, known as a sullen and self-righteous captain.
“No one wants to sail with him,” he says.
After the hijacking, 11 crew members have sued Maersk Line and the Waterman Steamship Corp. for almost $50 million, alleging “willful, wanton and conscious disregard for their safety.” Phillips is a witness for the defense.
“The crew had begged Captain Phillips not to go so close to the Somali coast,” said Deborah Waters, the attorney who brought the claim. “He told them he wouldn’t let pirates scare him or force him to sail away from the coast.”
‘REAL ARROGANT’
Phillips had taken command of the Maerskin late March 2009. Left for him, says the crew member, was a detailed anti-piracy plan now used by all ships per the International Maritime Organization. Should pirates get too close, the crew should cut the lights and power and lock themselves below deck.
“He didn’t want anything to do with it, because it wasn’t his plan,” says the crew member. “He was real arrogant.” Phillips says he knows nothing about such a plan.
Over this three-week period, 16 container ships in the same region had been attacked by pirates, and eight had been taken hostage.
As the film opens, Hanks, as Phillips, is seen assiduously tending to safety protocols. “Let’s tighten up security!” he orders. “I want everything closed, locked, even in port.”
Phillips has admitted that, on board, he got seven e-mails about increased piracy off Somalia — each exhorting ships to move farther offshore by at least 600 miles.
The Maersk was 235 miles off the coast, says the crew member, though Phillips has since rounded that number up to 300.
“I couldn’t tell you exactly the miles,” Phillips tells The Post. “I don’t know.”
In 2010, Phillips told CNN the Maersk was 300 miles off shore; published reports from that time had the ship at 240.
Phillips ignored every missive and later admitted he didn’t share these warnings — though they were not sent exclusively to him.
Meanwhile, another crew member was tasked with keeping track of every ship in the region that had been attacked. Using the e-mails, a chart was built. On it were the names of each ship, the dates and times they were assaulted, their latitude and longitude, the ransom demanded.
When presented with this data, a crew member says, Phillips ignored it, too. In the film, Hanks tells his crew — depicted as lazy coffee guzzlers who fall back on the security of their union-protected employment — that their job is to get the cargo ship from Point A to Point B in the shortest, cheapest time possible.
In fact, says this crew member, the Maersk veered off course by 180 degrees south — this was during the first attack, on April 8. Phillips denies this, and says the boat only picked up speed.
“We had two pirate attacks over 18 hours,” says this crew member, not just the one shown in the film.
The crew didn’t know whom to fear more: the pirates or Phillips.
According to this crew member, during the first attack, as two pirate boats came into view, clearly chasing them, Phillips was putting the crew through a fire drill. In the film, it’s a security drill.
“We said, ‘You want us to knock it off and go to our pirate stations?’ ” the crew member recalls. “And he goes, ‘Oh, no, no, no — you’ve got to do the lifeboats drill.’ This is how screwed up he is. These are drills we need to do once a year. Two boats with pirates and he doesn’t give a s- -t. That’s the kind of guy he is.”
At first, Phillips maintains this is a lie. “No,” he says. “The mate called up and said, ‘Do you want to stop the drill?’ They [the boats] were seven miles away. There was nothing we could do. We didn’t know the exact situation.”
But is it true that he ordered the entire drill completed anyway?
“Correct,” Phillips says.
“Yeah, seven miles. What’s the dif?” the crew member says. “I saw them, and they were closer than that.”
The Maersk eventually made a narrow escape, and Phillips ordered it back to its original route.
One of the crew mutinied — he refused to do it, instead going below deck, sleeping with his boots on and his flashlight by his side, waiting for the inevitable.
At 3 a.m., the pirates radioed the boat to stop; Phillips had left the stern light on and the bridge open. At 7 a.m., came the third and final attack: Four armed Somali pirates stormed the Maersk.
The crew was on their own. “Phillips didn’t say what he wanted to do,” says the crew member. “His plan [was], when the pirates come aboard, we throw our hands in the air and say, ‘Oh, the pirates are here!’ The chief engineer said, ‘We’re going downstairs and locking ourselves in.’ One of the mates said, ‘Let’s go down. We’re on our own.’ ”
They hid in the engine room, in 130 degree heat, for 12 hours. Phillips and three other crew members were held at gunpoint, yet Phillips tells The Post things weren’t that dire. “The ship,” he says, “was never actually taken.”
Aside
from the movie review , I had heard another news around the Philippine maritime
community.
UFS
also known as United Filipino Sailors , apparently got trashed by this so
called COMELEC EN BANC on its candidacy for political representation of
sailors. I'm not exactly sure on how UFS got denied on their petition to run
for office but those are the words of COMELEC , Anyway it's not that bad or
shameful if UFS didn’t make the cut - it's not exactly the end of the world
anyway and to be frankly honest , the maritime community would be better off
without any political representation in the government than having one, the
same goes as having a bad representation is much worse than having no
representation at all .
For
the record The last political party who represented the maritime community
turned out to be such a disappointment (I'm referring to "Angkla"
political party) and instead of helping
out the maritime community and easing up the burden of sailors , it turns out
that this organization added even more
problems than solutions to the maritime community. And thanks to them
everything is in the maritime community is in a god awful shitty mess and being
a sailor in the Philippines is much more complicated and impractical.
Anyway
despite the disappointments that UFS ran into , it doesn’t stop them from
helping people. And a little rain on their parade won't be a setback. AMOSUP
doesn’t even come close to UFS in confronting and discussing issues related to
the maritime community in the Philippines.
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| Screen shot photo i took in wikipedia confirming if the film was shitstoricly errrr.. i meant historically accurate |
