You know, I do appreciate your comments but what I don’t like about the internet is simply showing / quoting a movie. I likely have never seen that movie which is one thing but more than that it’s just lazy. If you want to make a point then at least put enough thought into it to be able to make a point. What I’m saying is that cut and paste is not discussion, it’s just, well, cut and paste.

 

Four years a vessel's prisoner:

Sailor spent nightmarish 4 years trapped aboard Egyptian cargo ship​

@atferrari, I think you might find this story interesting. The cruelty of other people's apathy towards their own peers has never ceased to surprise me ... it's that kind of attitude "if it doesn't affect me, then it's not my problem" that I hate the most... complacency at its worst.

The horror stories of individuals or even complete crews abandoned jointly with their vessel always start with the disponent owner being unable (or not willing) to pay some amount to someone usually in the current port of call coming to the point of abandoning all.

The immediate consequence is that in most countries nobody takes charge of the situation because that means to pay for whatever is required to keep the vessel safely moored/anchored with minimum qualified crew as required in the safe manning certificate. Bunkers, medical care, fresh, provisions, fresh water, shore people to tend the lines, tugs...a long list.

Another, not frequent occurrence, is when the flag (that is the register) ceases to exist or does not recognize them anymore. We had the case of several fishing boats berthed in Buenos Aires when the Soviet Union collapsed. For a mix of reasons nobody took any decision about them and their crews for much more than two years. For starters nobody could swear what was their actual nationality. Go figure.

The sole case I know where the authorities took charge on the spot, was with one vessel of our flag in a port in The Netherlands where the current crew was appointed by the local authority to keep her safe until she was sold to cover all expenses including the last voyage salaries owed to them. I relieved the Ch. Officer when they came home, back in Buenos Aires. BTW, the best of all vessels I was in my career.

Ill treatment to seamen is a painful thing. Bad to suffer when you are alone in the middle of nowhere...

 

You know, I do appreciate your comments but what I don’t like about the internet is simply showing / quoting a movie. I likely have never seen that movie which is one thing but more than that it’s just lazy. If you want to make a point then at least put enough thought into it to be able to make a point. What I’m saying is that cut and paste is not discussion, it’s just, well, cut and paste.

Those that understand do, those that don't, don't. Life is too short.

 

Personally, I like most, if not all, of the memes and pop movie references that Nsa posts. An image, and a situation quoted in its proper context can be humorously enlightening. And as he's just said, life's too short. Sometimes too short to elaborate on the obvious. So why not just cut and paste if that gets straight to the point?

 

Personally, I like most, if not all, of the memes and pop movie references that Nsa posts. An image, and a situation quoted in its proper context can be humorously enlightening. And as he's just said, life's too short. Sometimes too short to elaborate on the obvious. So why not just cut and paste if that gets straight to the point?

I do understand that not everyone gets meme references to pop culture out their normal preferences, region or age group but this IS the Internet weird/off-topic area. I'm often baffled by modern meme's on personalities, and events I've never heard of in this thread.

 

Personally, I like most, if not all, of the memes and pop movie references that Nsa posts. An image, and a situation quoted in its proper context can be humorously enlightening. And as he's just said, life's too short. Sometimes too short to elaborate on the obvious. So why not just cut and paste if that gets straight to the point?

kv

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mannequins-quinpool-diner-halifax-police-called-1.6007512

Halifax police respond to dummies 'dining' at Quinpool Road eatery

 

Elderly couple escape Tennessee assisted living facility using Morse code training​

The couple, a husband and wife team who remain unnamed in public records, suffers from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, but they had their wits about them as the husband used his military training with Morse code to figure out the facility's electric lock code.

 

 

Only regular sailors actually saw this horror.

 

Only regular sailors actually saw this horror.

No need to translate anything. What you see is enough: last year, in the middle of the lockdown, we had this on the official daily press conference reporting the number of dead people.

 

Elderly couple escape Tennessee assisted living facility using Morse code training​

Learning code is deeply implanted in long term memory.

 

No need to translate anything. What you see is enough: last year, in the middle of the lockdown, we had this on the official daily press conference reporting the number of dead people.

Words fail me...

 

kv

 

kv

Any exorcist available nearby?

 

WTF Google Ads?

Since 2005 I have paid Google tens of thousands of pounds to run ads on their system. In return they have wasted loads of my time with endless changes to the platform and arbitary and erroneous enforcement of their own policies. They feel less like a partner and more like an enemy.

I’m not too bothered about one ad being dissaproved. Especially during COVID, where almost no face-to-face events are happening anywhere in the world. But experience shows they will probably start disapproving many more over the next few weeks. I have clicked the link to appeal the disapproval. Hopefully, sometime in the next few weeks some under-paid, under-trained contractor, who might not speak great English, will re-approve the ad. But maybe not. Who can say in this opaque, Kafkaeaque, ‘computer says no’, outsourced world that we have collectively built for ourselves

 

The strong granma:

 

kv

Edit: COVID now Rocket?

 

In 1925, Inventors Created "The Isolator" To Increase Focus And Block Distractions



​

“You’d probably have to have a new cylinder of O2 every half hour, which is quite an expensive way to not get distracted. They’ve essentially designed a big snaking exhaust port which massively increases the dead space in the system, acting as a reservoir for exhaled gas. You’d be better off just having a hole."

 

In 1925, Inventors Created "The Isolator" To Increase Focus And Block Distractions


View attachment 237480
​

Or it was the early attempt at a CPAP machine.