My Shipboard Training
My Shipboard Training
My Shipboard training started July 5, 2011. I joined the ship named CE-NIRIIS, which was a crude oil tanker. I spent 12 months and 14 days on board that vessel. Our vessel sails around Mediterranean Sea.
All of the crew on our vessel is a Filipino except for the Electrician and Fitter. I was a day man onboard ship. Every 0800H we start to work and finish working at 1700H. As a Cadet, I am the runner of our buson. If he forgot something, he usually calling me and take it for him. After working on deck I go eat my dinner, take a bath, and I go up on the bridge. My Officers teaching me the routines on bridge, corrections on the charts, paper works and a lot more. If my 3rd Officer is not busy on the bridge, he usually teaching me paper works on the bridge.
My unforgettable experience on that vessel is when the gyro compass was broken. The compass arrow of the gyro was turning 360 degrees. Before we leave the port on Egypt the pilot tell to our captain to go on Malta to have a repair on our gyro compass before proceeding to Genova, Italy. But our company refuse to do the pilots order, they decided to proceed as on Italy without having a repair on Malta. Our Captain decides to Duty all the deck officers and rating including himself.
Upon proceeding to Italy, we use manual steering for the whole voyage. My officers ask me to recall to them about the radar plotting because even our radar is turning 360 degrees. We were lucky to have the ship in Italy in one piece even if our gyro compass was having trouble during our
My Shipboard training started July 5, 2011. I joined the ship named CE-NIRIIS, which was a crude oil tanker. I spent 12 months and 14 days on board that vessel. Our vessel sails around Mediterranean Sea.
All of the crew on our vessel is a Filipino except for the Electrician and Fitter. I was a day man onboard ship. Every 0800H we start to work and finish working at 1700H. As a Cadet, I am the runner of our buson. If he forgot something, he usually calling me and take it for him. After working on deck I go eat my dinner, take a bath, and I go up on the bridge. My Officers teaching me the routines on bridge, corrections on the charts, paper works and a lot more. If my 3rd Officer is not busy on the bridge, he usually teaching me paper works on the bridge.
My unforgettable experience on that vessel is when the gyro compass was broken. The compass arrow of the gyro was turning 360 degrees. Before we leave the port on Egypt the pilot tell to our captain to go on Malta to have a repair on our gyro compass before proceeding to Genova, Italy. But our company refuse to do the pilots order, they decided to proceed as on Italy without having a repair on Malta. Our Captain decides to Duty all the deck officers and rating including himself.
Upon proceeding to Italy, we use manual steering for the whole voyage. My officers ask me to recall to them about the radar plotting because even our radar is turning 360 degrees. We were lucky to have the ship in Italy in one piece even if our gyro compass was having trouble during our