Don'tsurrendertheArabian Sea

摘要

Recently, the public image of shipping has not been good. Piracy has been in the headlines. At the dining table, conference table and via GMDSS, the discussion has been of piracy.There is not much positive talk about shipping any more.rnIf the talk is not of piracy, it is of stress (due to lack of manpower) or of ship masters and chief engineers being thrown into jail for acts of pollution that they did not intend. Then there are fatigue, the lack of a social life, the feeling of being cut off from the rest of the world and the possibility of ill treatment at the hands of coast guards and other authorities. Of course, when you are not concerned with any of this, you have stormy weather waiting for you at sea.