In case you missed it, he is the CAPTAIN!!!:
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Yeah, reckon some one confused him with the oiler at one point, hoody with stripes and your title time it was after that!
BBC radio show, “Cabin Pressure”, comes to mind. Benedict Cumberbatch character (Captain. Martin Crieff) is quite insistent that people know he IS the Captain.
C’mon, be nice. He looks like an MCA yacht captain. It took weeks at sea to qualify for that job and he is proud of his achievement.
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I once took a job on a foc AHTS vessel. While making it aboard I was meet by a snappy dressed early 40’ish guy & he directed to the galley before heading to drop my bags in my stateroom for coffee or water. His English was near unaccented & better than mine. Come to find out he was tri-lingual, English, Portuguese & German even though he never visited the US or Germany. He knew the answers to every question I asked about the ship, schedule, client & operation. A perfect gentleman from the moment I meet him until we stopped working together about a year later. I incorrectly assumed he was the master of the vessel & somehow let that slip out. Nope, he was the steward. The captain was up in the bridge. That dufus NEEDED every labeled coffee cup, embroidered shirt, pen or anything else that he could put his title on to let others know he was the captain.
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A tacky clothing ad, I think, pasted on to a stock image of a bridge.
Note focus variation in the depth of field of the model, in comparison to the relatively sharp focus of the background.
But more likely a CV photo from a wannabe - there’s a lot of it about!!
(trying to get on Below Deck)
Yes it is from an ad. Quite obvious, I thought.
Here is a link, if anybody is interesting in purchasing their gear: Exclusive Merchant navy Uniform, Apparel & Gifts
PS> They have gear for other ranks as well.
Sometime it can be important to wear uniform, or insignia let other people know who you are without having to ask.
An anecdote:
In 1973 I was captain on a tank that called at Dubai for bunker. When the pilot came on the bridge I was standing near the door ready to great him.
Being young and not wearing a uniform, or epaulets, the pilot just walk pass me and greeted the Ch.Officer, (who were in his 40s)
He pointed at me and said; “That’s the Old Man”.
The Pilot, who was an elderly Englishman, apologised profusely and was very embarrasses by the situation. A few stiff whiskeys in my cabin after we had docked calmed him down, though.
PS> When I told him that we were bound for Rangoon, it showed up that he had been the last British Harbour Master there and could give me information on the way tankers were using buoy moorings there, which came in handy.
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What an incredible contribution to the forum.
An elderly person once again fooled by Facebook AI bullshit.
This forum is dead.
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You must be one of those children who don’t understand irony, sarcasm. or satire.
Donate to your favorite charity in lieu of flowers.
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