Usually some young, strong, agile, high stamina crewmen are necessary, but there is also room for some old, fat, weak, gimpy crewmen. Not everyone needs to be Superman.
A good attitude offsets a lot of other shortcomings.
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This is worth watching.
A very rich and famous athlete in an argument with a ref, what does that have to do with the ship?
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I know it’s long, but seriously watch it through.
I’m assuming you judged the book by the cover.
You’re asking people to watch a forty minute program without giving even a clue why you think they should. That’s not a realistic expectation in my opinion.
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I have sailed with a handful - both union and non-union and all of them were excellent and one even taught me a thing or two as a brand new Third Mate.
Only two stand out who were disgraceful in their personal and professional conduct; one was an officer with a penchant for using her gender as a reason to get out of reprimands for continued poor performance, the other a CMA deck cadet on a bulk carrier who was just an obnoxious brat to most of the officers. Luckily, the latter was shown the door by MMP pretty quickly after graduation.
Good riddance.
Once again, here in the western world we are excoriating each other over real and perceived injustices against gender/ race, fill in the blank. Meanwhile in the ever increasing FOC third world the industry is becoming more male dominated as the shipping world becomes more Communist, Eastern and Islamist male dominated.
Third world shipping was at some point NOT male dominated???
Simply because ideology sets the agenda, tone and culture, which effects one’s world view. Having said that, I strictly censure myself when aboard ship, and act as a fly on the wall.
Point well taken but your two above examples are not representative and unrealistic to say the least.
Your world view stopped evolving sometime during the cold war apparently. Get with the times and stop hiding in some old obsolete myths.
Communism is dead. Even North Korea is not a true Communist country, nor is China, or Cuba.
No country evolved to true Communism, nor will there ever be one.
Some tribes in Papua New Guinea did reach something resembling Communism, but contact with modern “civilisation”, missionaries and advertising killed that. Now you got the “Rascals” in it’s place. (Google it)
An ex-pat Aussie in New Guinea plagued with burglarys electrified his iron roof. Two rascals gained access to the roof and the Aussie had to leave town.
The incident was known as “the Port Moresby foxtrot” after that.
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Yes it has been an amazing change since my days in PNG in 1968-70. I could leave my office door, which was directly out to deck, wide open and a $50 bill on the table and it would not disappear.
Now leaving a stubby on the desk would be a different case.
Last time I was in Port Moresby (2011) I had to get a security guard and his “onetok” taxi driver friend to take me around to look at old haunts, even in daytime.
I’m not doing the hard work for you.
I feel it’s a good compliment to the conversation at hand and me giving the Reader’s Digest Version would do it no justice.
I lasted through seventeen minutes the other night and got so tired of the guy’s snarky attitude and love of his own voice that I bailed. Sorry.
FWIW I didn’t see anything in that seventeen minutes that I thought contributed to this conversation.
Why do I have to constantly give history lessons to such a learned individual as yourself? I am well aware that communism as a theoretical construct was never and can never be achieved. The soviet leadership made that admission from Lenin on (until Kruschev supposedly predicted it was being achieved) that a hard central controlled state (the soviet socialist republic) would be the “temporarily” caretakers and implement “the scientific socialist state i.e. Karl Marx” and then disappear . Correct there is no such thing as true theoretical communism or any Utopian construct, or democracy, oligarchy or any other “theoretical political or theocratic institution but that is immaterial, the Socialist - Communist collectivist if you will model is constantly being revisited and always involves a centraliszed re-distributionist, collectivist society primarily for purposes of control and power in the hands of a few privileged party members. We see this happening in real time in Venezuela, shining example of using extreme socialism central control and confiscation/nationalization of most assets and private property, this in the name of redistribution and equality, Bolivia soon to follow suit. North Korea is a hybrid totalitarian state, once again claiming equality under the communist banner and actuality a primitive brutal totalitarian dynastic state. Truse theoretical communism not, but that theoretical title is irrelevant. I take people and nations at their word; if they claim that the practical implementation of so-called communism is what they are practicing, then that s what they are called, no matter how far from the ridiculous utopian model it falls. In true communism there is elimination of any monetary system which once tried by Lenin was quickly abandoned. The fact that the PRC found out that “true communism” could never be achieved and seeing the impossibility especially after the fall of the Soviet state, re-invented themselves into a centrally controlled 'free market” hybrid economy. Central planning and central control of a huge population also necessitates very limited free choices and independence of its people, but allowing the day to day market mechanism function on ground level. The growing middle class will and is already threatening their central control, history will soon be written how long that model can last. Quite ingenious and also very dangerous as a future construct to be imitated. When I use the word communism, it is obviously meant to represent the practical transitional implementation of the system not the theoretical one. It is you who is stuck and obsessed with the “pure theoretical” meaning of the word.
Meanwhile - the only two places that still practice USSR style communism are Cuba and North Korea.
Since you know there are no Communist countries and true Communism is no acheivable, why do you keep on harping up again and again on it. Get with the times, America has got new bogymen to hate without understanding what they are all about.
Nobody today have the illusion of achieving true Communism. In fact even Mao did not think it was possible. He once stated; “it will take 20 generations to achieve true Communism and each generation have to have their own revolution”. He only got to see two revolutions.
As for the Chinese middle class and their opposition to the present Chinese regime, it may be slightly exaggerated in Western media and minds. Those Chinese who have travelled widely are not overly impressed with the West and their “freedom”. They look at the bickering and the dysfunctional political system in Washington and say; NO THANK YOU.
I’m not sure which will be written off in history, but raw Capitalism based on greed may not be the lasting legacy of development toward a just and equal society. (Neither will Communism)
In 2018, “communist” = “things I don’t like” 
Are you referring to pretentious Norsks?