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NEW DELHI: The search for one Indian crew member of merchant vessel MV Tampen, thrown in the sea by pirates off the West African nation of Gabon, is going on.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put seafarers around the world in precarious situations. As of July 2021, It is estimated that 250,000 seafarers are currently stranded on ships beyond the end of their original contracts and unable to be repatriated, due to COVID-related travel restrictions. A similar number of seafarers are stuck at home, unable to ...
Engineering Officers and Ratings Information on how to gain a UK CoC for Engineering/Electro-Technical Officers or Engineering Watch Rating Certificate From: original documents (except passport which must be an attested copy) to: Seafarer Certification 2/13 SO15 1EG If you already hold a MCA-issued CoC, MEOL or watch rating certificate: please email your application and scanned documents to engineering@mcga.gov.uk Fast track requests If you have sent us an application and need us to expedite this on an urgent basis, please ask your company to email engineering@mcga.gov.uk directly with yo...
Science Fiction & Fantasy — by Suzanne Palmer — I have a purpose, therefore I serve. It recited the Mantra Upon Waking, to check that it was running at optimum physical efficiency, then the Mantra of Obedience, the Mantra of Not Improvising Without Clear Oversight and Direction, and the Mantra of Not Organizing Unsanctioned Mass Action Among Other Bots, all of which had been imposed on it by Ship as a condition of its continued existence after the last time it had been activated. Bot 9 noted, as it ran them, that those subroutines had too many non-discrete variables and shoddily-define...
Inspiration She also cited the inspiration of pioneering Tayside woman Victoria Drummond, the UK’s first woman marine engineer. “I started a cadetship with full sponsorship from Lloyds of London, now Maritime London, directly from sixth year at Webster’s High School,” said Fiona. “My first trip was on the Teignbank, a general cargo vessel which traded on an 80-day trip round the world. “I joined the vessel in Le Havre and sailed across to the Panama Canal, down to Tahiti. “We had port calls in New Caledonia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, various ports in Papua New Guinea, Singap...