Life Of A Sailor- Onboard And Offshore
Hey seaman! You enjoyed you independence days of 8 to 10 weeks or more
. Spent excellent holidays ashore , splurged excessively on friends or family, enjoyed uninterrupted sleeps in days and nights. Suddenly, the mobile started ringing in your pocket when you were watching a romantic movie on your television. Who can be? Your wife? No ! As she is busy in kitchen making delicious meal for you. Plumber ? Certainly not, as you paid him yesterday only! Obviously not your telephone bill as you cleared them online. You guessed it can be someone from your company then.
It is going to be happen with you anyway or it was about that time. Your lovely vacations on land flown and it is time to go onboard again with a harsh beat on the screen of your phone. A seaman on facebook fell into the similar situation and what he writes is as follows:
Soon its gonna be official that ill be given an article no and placed in the shelf as a spare part and then taken out after a month when they will say"Mr. Kapoor your vacation has ended and we would like you to come outta the shelf and rejoin the vessel
However you received the call. Mr. Bahuguna ? , the person on the other end chanted, We would like you to join the MV Sirocco in Mexico in a week" the ship is General Cargo, built in 2004, flag 149, DWT 6033, Call Sign PCBN, IMO 9268849. Several expressions and emotions came and went on your face. Emotions of parting from your Beloved; emotions of see yourself working with ropes on ship, emotions of disappearance of your lovely spent time, emotions with fear of the nature of next contract . The whole variety of emotions appeared just from a phone call . Now your preparations starts with your suitcase first. Toothpaste and toothbrush, soaps and towel, mirror, comb, oil, clothes and toiletries, nail clippers, perfume, an ipod, some book of your choice, some wrestling and movie C Ds, comfortable pyjamas,sleepers, cookis, home made Gujiyas and mathhri , snap of your girlfriend if unmarried etc. If your mother or wife was helping, there were three brushes, 7-8 soaps and two toothpasts packed in suitcase. If they were not there, only a sole toothpaste and toothbrush already used was kept in the luggage.
As a matter of reality, this happens with every seaman. This becomes a emotional scene for all family members that time. Emotions start breaking out at the thinking of empty times ahead in you absence. To escape the bursting out emotions, the family members diverts themselves in some physical activity like a heap of advice about what to do or what not to. As for your wife, she finds it hard to cope with the upcoming depature times. Well you and your family have faced it before and you and they have to face it again.
Now the time comes of your departure. Sailors wife goes with him to say him goodbye to the airport. Your bags are checked in as usual and the couple take heavy steps around the terminal. For a few moments, your wife breaks the silence with her heavy voice and says , I love you, with breaking down in tears.
(This happened with me and my boyfriend who made a promise that he would change his career and will come back soon after a planning of some other earning option. He promised me, he would never forget me. The promise came quicker than expected and he is the director of a esteemed marine academy now. Sailors, but you do not do that. I heart a sailor in the same situation missed the flight lost in consoling her, he is now elevator repair man in a department store and she ran away with a captain soon after his change of career.)
Some emotional and romantic and unrealistic foolish seafarers choose to extend onboard contract as they have no reason to return on land. Rather they have an appealing reason to be onboard. Not for consciousness for the career, but for some other reason. I tell you an interesting inicident, I read in the blog of Davey Jones. In the words of Davey Jones, a sailor, in the same situation above met a young girl Amina offshore during his voyage. Fell in love with her and all of his hardly earned wages went in buying costly gifts for Amina and on fancy foods with her. And before boarding the vessel, he fixed a monthly stipend for her. After boarding on the ship, he found his mobile was missing and his wallet was empty. He searched in his pocket and found a slip having the words written on it, thanks for the nice times After 2 years the shipping company asked him to leave and he reached home penniless , a shell of a man, he was never before. You new born sailors, never do that.
So it was all basically about a sailor who enjoys his vacations on land and the feelings of his friends and family members with a little input of onboard sailor. I also keep exploring the feelings view and life of the sailors who are onboard. Such is a person I knew on facebook who shares his every thinking, evey incident, day to day happening. He is Aviral Kapoor . I am sharing some of his post in his own words:
Awesome rajma chawal..
Mmmmmmm..the taste dsnt seem to go away frm the mouth.. ;
Feels gr8 when you can count the days left on one hand..,
5 more and home here i come:)) ; It feels great when the captain writes an official mail to d company saying that 3/O Aviral Kapoor has performed really well and we would very much like himto rejoin the vessel in july after his vacation.
Proud of myself today:)
Nothing beats the melody of soft rock on the night watch..gives a feeling of rejuvination to the soul..
, .
And there it came
Bremerhaven to frankfurt to delhi
Followed by a hotel stay in mapple emerald and then doon
Ticket in hand..will b bak on 28th..
(only if my reliever replies)
Soon its gonna be official that ill be given an article no and placed in the shelf as a spare part and then taken out after a month when they will say"Mr. Kapoor your vacation has ended and we would like you to come outta the shelf and rejoin the vessel
Throughout the month I print papers and then get pissed about filling them
But then comes this 1 single paper which just has a few numbers on it and gives the joy and relief to the eyes like nothing else.
Thats my payslip.(just love it)
So , this was the story of an onboard sailor who reflects every sailor onboard and justifies each of his profession
by: Pooja Bhandari
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