The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
by Ian Urbina · 19 Aug 2019
, labor agents deducted expenses like “currency variations,” “transfer fees,” and medical checkups, which, in some instances, amounted to 30 percent of their earnings. Indonesian and Filipino sailors from the sunken Oyang 70 wait in line to leave New Zealand in August 2010. To get the jobs, the men often had paid over
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,” Sputnik News Service, Dec. 8, 2014; Kim Tong-Hyung, “11 More Bodies Recovered near Sunken SKorean Ship,” Associated Press, Dec. 3, 2014; “Three of 13 Filipino Seafarers in Korean Trawler Sinking Come Home,” ForeignAffairs.co.nz, Jan. 8, 2015; “Trawler Wreck Worst Maritime Accident in Recent Years in Far East,” Interfax: Russian
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Stranded Merchant Sailors: New UN Rule,” Bloomberg, April 11, 2014; JOC Staff, “ILO Backs Protection for Abandoned Seafarers,” Journal of Commerce, April 11, 2014; “Abandoned Filipino Sailors from MV B Ladybug Finally Home,” World Maritime News, April 29, 2014; “16 Indian Seamen Stranded on Ship in Dubai for Almost a Year,” Asian
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. Mead, Anne S. Collet, and Michael Podesta. “Collisions Between Ships and Whales.” Marine Mammal Science 17, no. 1 (2006): 35–75. Lamvik, Gunnar M. “The Filipino Seafarer: A Life Between Sacrifice and Shopping.” PhD diss., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002. Langewiesche, William. The Outlaw Sea: Chaos and Crime on the
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel · 2 May 2022 · 363pp · 98,496 words
vessels in the area. Once the Brillante’s crew had been attended to, Tagalog speakers on board the Philippine Sea began conducting interviews with the Filipino sailors, asking them to recount precisely what had happened. Captain Gonzaga told naval personnel that the pirates insisted there was $100,000 in cash on board
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from the Brillante’s crew in the aftermath of the attack. As he read through the transcripts, they struck him as strangely formulaic, with multiple Filipino sailors using the same English words and phrases. To Veale, they seemed scripted. The crew might have been under duress. “They’ve got to be redone
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. The shipowner’s attorneys said they had tried their best to acquire records from the Brillante’s shipping agent, the crewing firm that supplied its Filipino sailors, and the security outfit that was supposed to provide the tanker’s escort, among others. In each case, the files had been destroyed, or lost
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a while. He was booked on a flight to Taipei, connecting onward to Manila for a well-deserved break. Trips home are momentous events for Filipino seafarers, not only because they’re a rare chance to spend time with the families for whom they work so hard. The visits also serve as
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interests. We heard many versions of the truth about the Brillante Virtuoso: from private investigators, police officers, judges, insurance executives, officials in far-flung ports, Filipino sailors, and Arab businessmen, each with different and sometimes contradictory recollections. Before we could complete this project, we wanted to hear from the men who were
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: The Southerners Flex Their Muscles,” The Economist, Jul. 2, 2011. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT After building up some experience: Gunnar M. Lamvik, “The Filipino Seafarer: A Life Between Sacrifice and Shopping” (Doctoral diss., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002), 161. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Seafarers are responsible
Deep Sea and Foreign Going
by Rose George · 4 Sep 2013 · 402pp · 98,760 words
: Filipinos make up more than a third of all crews worldwide. A quarter of a million of them are at sea. They are popular, a Filipino seafarer once told me, because ‘we are cheap and speak good English’. They are the new Malays, who were the new lascars – Asian seafarers widely employed
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in a Tagalog accent. Perhaps other entertainment happens behind cabin doors too: in a paper entitled ‘The Filipino Seafarer: A Life between Sacrifice and Shopping’, the Norwegian academic Gunnar Lamvik revealed the alarming practice among Filipino seafarers of slicing open their penis with a razor and implanting ball-bearings or coffee beans. The implants
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shoeboxes of donated gifts to seafarers. In mid-January there are boxes still left over from the Christmas deliveries, so Colum approaches a group of Filipino seafarers sitting near the fountain. The fountain has toy penguins perched on its edge. They were in the Christmas crib, says Colum, as if that is
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were employed by a Vega-owned manning agency in Manila. Its books seemed to be in order, except that they were false books. Visit any Filipino seafarers’ forum and you will find plenty of tales of double book-keeping. One set of salary rates to please ITF; another set of figures that
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taken from them under duress.’ Who could the crew complain to? Blacklisting by manning agencies is a career-ending risk, and common: about 10,000 Filipino seafarers are thought to be blacklisted. Sometimes, the ships are just abandoned. This is defined in law, rather lyrically, as ‘the severance of ties between the
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Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science, New York: Harper Collins, 2009, pp.183–185. 10 Secret weapon of the Filipinos Gunnar Lamvik, ‘The Filipino Seafarer: A Life between Sacrifice and Shopping’, Doctoral thesis submitted to Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002. Chapter 4: Open Sea 1 Two thousand seafarers
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Point International, 1, 2, 3 Falklands War, 1, 2 Farole, Abdirahman Mohamed, 1 fatigue, 1 Felixstowe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ferry accidents, 1 Filipino seafarers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 exploitation and blacklisting, 1 maritime training, 1 fish filleting, 1, 2 hearing in, 1, 2 Fisherman’s Friend lozenges, 1
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
by John S. Burnett · 1 Jan 2002 · 399pp · 120,226 words
Liberia, registered in the Bahamas, classed in the United States, chartered by a Swiss-based Russian company with offices in London, crewed by Greek and Filipino seafarers, sailing from Latvia to Singapore, sank off Spain, and also polluted beaches in France. NUMAST Telegraph, December 2002. 13 The complete report can be found
The confusion
by Neal Stephenson · 13 Apr 2004 · 1,020pp · 339,564 words
deck and gave van Hoek a certain look. The captain stretched out a mangled hand towards the bow, then let it fall. A pair of Filipino sailors swung mauls, dislodging a pair of chocks, and the head of the ship pitched upward slightly as it was relieved of the weight of the
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below the burning mountain of Griga in the Marian Islands on the fifth of September. The next day the Shaftoe boys and a squad of Filipino sailors went ashore and ascended to the rim of a secondary cinder-cone on the western slope of the mountain proper. They established a watch-post
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
by Donovan Hohn · 1 Jan 2010 · 473pp · 154,182 words
there are no passengers, and because most merchant mariners these days are Filipino. A lot of people don’t seem to care if twenty-five Filipino sailors drown.” And drown they do. How many, exactly? Nobody knows for sure, but the number of accidental seafaring fatalities appears to exceed one thousand lives
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by Michael Scott Moore · 23 Jul 2018 · 476pp · 124,973 words
, “Small money!” Step Up Marine Enterprise later changed its name on the shop at the mall, and its owner, Victor Lim, was charged with trafficking Filipino sailors in another case. Other Naham 3 crewmen would tell similar recruitment stories. And now they were hostages in Somalia, where pirates were happy to treat
On Time and Water
by Andri Snaer Magnason · 15 Sep 2021 · 272pp · 77,108 words
one can find plastic bottles of Ajax cleaning detergent, brown bottles with an odd gunk at the bottom; a practically undamaged right shoe; and a Filipino sailor’s safety helmet, labeled R. Marquez—that’s how I learned that Spanish naming customs are prevalent in the Philippines. A short distance from our
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by Robert Kanigel · 25 Apr 2016
systems. Stress—overwork? worry? loneliness?—the evidence powerfully suggests, can weaken the immune system and offer a ripe field for disease. One study found that Filipino sailors serving in the American navy—typically away from home for years at a time, and for much longer than other sailors—were more TB-prone
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson · 19 May 2015 · 945pp · 292,893 words
a small contingent from the Philippines: a scientist who had been working on genetically modified strains of rice, a sociologist who had been working with Filipino sailors who spent their whole lives on cargo freighters—she’d be working with Luisa, presumably—and a pair of Arkies who, judging from looks, were
In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
by Stewart Lee Allen · 1 Jan 2002 · 270pp · 81,311 words
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
by Alan Weisman · 23 Sep 2013 · 579pp · 164,339 words