WORKING ON A CONTAINER SHIP | LIFE AS A MERCHANT MARINER

SOMETHING ABOUT A VIRUS, IM SURE ITS NOTHING

Everytime your boat stopped. Were you able to leave the ship?

How much did you make during that 77 days on the ship?

Thanks for posting. Very cool.

Fair winds and following seas.

I’d report you for not wearing your hardhat correctly.

something about a virus...its probably nothing. hahaha damn.

Nice. Straight shooter. Rare

I'm a retired AB who shipped out of Seattle and San Francisco so I was in the far east a lot. Question: Are you union and if so which one? I was NMU which is now defunct

Hey man, I currently work in tech sales and really want to do this. I’m 32 years old and I don’t know how to start. I quit weed/drinking for this. Should I wait until I’m fully clean to pass the drug test? I just don’t have patience, I want to be on a boat.

I need job like this, am tired being jobless

Cool vid !!! Well done bro!

I have to apologize for being so late to the party and I also can't lie I've seen a few of your video's and for some unknown reason I didn't sub up??? Go figure. Anyway I'm here now and definitely looking forward to going back thru your video's. I definitely have my work cut out. Being that I live just outside of Toronto the minute I finish checking out the one it's on to the great lakes one. It's already "Qed" up and ready to go. So ya new guy here and hopefully see you in the comment section again soon 👍 🇨🇦 🔧

I like how most of those doing this back-breaking, nerve-wracking jobs on these container ships, are men. Today's toxic feminists won't complain about the obvious shortage of women in these kinds of jobs. They only want jobs where women will exercise control over everyone else. Salute to these men who sacrifice large parts of their lives (and comfort) to literally make the world work. Good job Joe for showing us what it's like to live on a cargo ship. Loved this from Cape Town, S. Africa

Wow, thanks. Now I know absolutely nothing about Container Ships!

What was pay like?

"all the canal workers were super nervous and paranoid whether our ships been to China or not. Something about a virus or something, I'm sure its nothing."

Narrator: it was not.

whats inside the container

Watching this video at the end of 2023, it appears that the fears about a possible virus in China at the time of filming might have been founded... Thanks a lot for this video.

How much did you make per day?

Thanks for this video bro. This is actually the job I always wanted. I just never took the time to apply. You just got me looking it up now. Thanks . Keep up what your doing too. I'm sure it inspires a lot of people. Me being one of them .

How does one become a green horn on a container ship

Good thing they didn't have any problems with Somali pirates.

I remember those sunrises and sunsets at sea.

it's just corona virus, no beegee

Do these guys need to get their passports checked everytime they cross into new territories or are they given a pass on that due to being on a ship?

owner what container had coke in? id sniff all

When your working out using free weights does the boat rock and create a problem

Run into any Somali pirates ?

I wanna do that.

Bruh, your red line just sailed into Matagorda, not Houston.

How many days you shipthe container from china to qatar?

What music did you use in mumbai

Those are some very dangerous waters dude! Hope the food was good. Do you have any idea what is packed in the containers?

Thank God for men!

whats your daily wage like if you dont mind sharing

You made a very nice video. Thank you for uploading.

If the mate said no overtime during the crossing,then get together with the crew and when in port tell the mate to stick his overtime up his arse and there after.Stick to your guns pal ,I’ve come across 2 nd engineers who think overtime is his money and spends it when he sees fit.Ha ha fuck him,it’s the COMPANY who decide the overtime budget and only the Captain can control extra hours after yoyr watchkeeping hours.Pull the Hours of rest sheets and stick to them religiously that will fuck the mate up bigtime and he will soon get the message.Also ask the captain to check the mates hours of rest I BET ITS FULL OF OVERTIME.

I worked on trawlers and longliners. Maybe its just me, but its spooky being on a ship at night. I never wanted to sleep in a room by myself. I did sometimes and nothing ever happened. But still... I stopped grasping for explanations and just decided its not for me.

"Something about a virus" lol

I find it funny how he said "I'm sure its nothing" about COVID but it changed the world.

You dont go on modern working ships to "see the world" anymore. The days of slow off loading bulk freighters is long gone. I remember spending THREE WEEKS in Israel in 1977 on a bulker. Now, port stays are ,measured in HOURS.
SAVE your money and spend it WISELY in safe, cheap, exotic countries in The Pacific Rim/South East Asia. NEVER vacation in Japan. Go to THAILAND, that's where THEY go to vacation. You can spend more in five days in Japan than in 30 days in Thailand or Cambodia or the Philippines.
Work for the MSC and there is an NEX (US Navy PX) in every port you go to. Get Walmart prices even in Sasebo, Japan. I never left the base after a while. Japan is CRAZY expensive and unrewarding compared to Southeast Asia.

I have seen SEVERAL dock lines part under pressure. Anti climatic at best. It is WIRE ROPE lines sometimes used for spring lines. When THOSE part, they can cut a man in half!
Keep a healthy respect for anything under tension. But, wire rope, especially!!

You need what's called a "slow hand" with hydraulics. TONS AND TONS of pressure. I was a natural for some reason. I was always the top pick to run any the onboard CRANES too. Some were quite large!!!! I just have this "feel" for hydraulics. This is critical for safety reasons too. I received my official crane certification on a monster twin 50 ton Hagglunds Cranes at our Paul Hall union school in Piney Point, MD. If you can run those cranes well, you can run ANY crane.

I was always the most accurate with a heaving line. I would win bets so often that no one would bet against me after a while. Ill never forget pointing to a nearby dump truck in Brunswick Georgia once...like Babe Ruth calling right field.
I dropped that hard monkeys' fist right in the back of that dump truck. Now days, it's all sand bags for safety's sake. Pussies. Nothing like a rock hard monkey's fist!!!! sigh

The Bosun is usually on the bow with the Chief Mate or 2nd Mate.
I preferred the STERN with the 3rd mate. We would sometimes have rain and weather protection on the stern. Your watch dictated your position.

You did not talk about THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ, a critical choke point.
Our MSC ships always had a nuke sub underneath us, a US Navy missile frigate and two helicopters escorting us through the Straits of Hormuz AND the Straits of Gibraltar.

Onboard us lived a Platoon of National Guard with small arms plus two M2 Browning 50 BMG belt fed machine guns welded on custom mounts to both railings.
NO muzzy combatants were stupid enough to put our lives in jeopardy. We crew had classified shit too. IMPRESSIVE shit.

I have a photo of me HOLDING an M2 at "Ready Count Two, Port Arms" in my arms, unsupported. I was a beast back then. That fuker weighed a ton. TWO guys would move those normally.

You skipped over the BEST part of the Suez. Hand steering. In 2004, it was fukin VERY narrow with only 75 feet on either side, even for a smallish 660 foot RO-RO like The Cape Edmont The BEST part was not strangling the DISAGREEABLE arab pilot who would SNAP at you like an errant child if you deviated even a few feet. AB's were the ONLY ratings that steer the ship. NO officer touches that ships wheel, ever. The Captain runs THE BOW thruster when docking.

Steering a PERFECTLY straight line with wind or even with out wind and current is extremely hard. Hand steering in the Chesapeake is not bad. Hand steering in the Mississippi River is a breeze because everything is curves, therefore VERY easy to steer.

As lead AB, I had all of us at the wheel for ONE hour at a time, max. EVERY AB rotated. We had two AB's per watch (six total) and it was all hands on stand-by for time on the wheel. Our auto pilot simply was not capable of doing what a human can do . We also had to hand steer in The Storm of the Century we endured in the Mediterranean later on. Thats another story.

The level of concentration was so intense that ONE HOUR was all a man could do effectively. My method worked perfectly. We used it on the way back too.
No stinky, foul breathed, foul mouthed Egyptian pilots were harmed.