The crew works on the ship all year round, lonely heart, and lives on the ship every day, which can make a crew member slump. Living in that lifeless living area every day, facing the cold environment, indifferent crews, some crew members seem to be crazy, wanting to change their lives.
So there are crew members who are fascinated by fitness every day, work non-stop during the day, soak in the gym at night, constantly challenge their limits, constantly stimulate their muscles, and even some crew members will buy a large amount of protein powder abroad and work hard for their muscles to expand.
Maybe that's the case on the ship, the crew really can't find fun, so they shut themselves in their rooms and enjoy women's movies alone, I remember that Mr. Cang's movies were very popular on the ship. At the beginning, the crew was hiding in the room alone, and then after the crew was discovered, everyone simply squeezed into a room to watch, which was happy, made people feel very excited, and the crew's living environment changed a lot.
The old crew members, who were not physically good at this aspect themselves, did not seem to be interested in this aspect, so they drank and had fun in their rooms. Work during the day, get yourself drunk at night, and the next day is another good day.
Everyone's attitude on board will vary greatly, and when they first get on board, everyone is still fresh to the environment on board, but after two or three months, the crew no longer shows freshness. As a result, some crew members began to feel homesick, and even some interns could not accept this environment, so they clamored to go home, and if the company did not go home, they threatened the company by jumping into the sea.
The company is helpless, and in the end can only let the crew go home, the company also knows that these young people can not stay, it is better to fire them early, and for us crew members who have more than ten years of sailing life, returning to land is not used to it, and prefer to live on board.
Life on board is actually very simple, the problems to be considered every day are basically things on the ship, big things and small things at home, you want to help but can't help at all.
In the past, when there was no Internet on the ship, everyone's life was nothing more than walking, walking or walking, otherwise it was playing cards, playing cards, or playing cards.
With the development of the times, computers appeared, mobile phones appeared, the crew's life slowly changed a little, and then later, the crew's living area was also installed with wireless networks, which completely changed the originally lifeless crew environment.
Every day, the crew had dinner and did not go for a walk, and the crew did not play cards and exercised. When everyone returns to the room, they talk to their families, relatives, and lovers. In the entire living area, everyone closed the door to live, and the aisle was exceptionally quiet.
I prefer the past to my current life. At that time, the crew seemed to be more simple, and everyone was living for fun on board.
In 2008, our ship went to Newcastle, England, loaded in Japan that year, and went to the United Kingdom to unload. This road is indeed very arduous, trekking through the Pacific Ocean, East China Sea, Taiwan Strait, South China Sea, Singapore Strait, Malacca Strait, Indian Ocean, Somali Pirate Zone in the Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea, Strait of Gibraltar, Atlantic Ocean, into the English Channel.
The straits that pass through, the pirate quarters that pass are all challenging areas for the crew.
The voyage is very long, the sea environment is very complicated, and even the one-and-a-half-month voyage has to go through several seasons. If there is bad weather, then the life of the crew will be more difficult, and they will not eat well and sleep well.
The only thing that can comfort the crew is that it is time for the crew to pay their salaries again, and the other is that we are going to Newcastle.
The crew seems to be more interested in Newcastle than in wages.
The salary of the crew is only so in the eyes of everyone, every day on the ship, there are very few places to spend money, it is not to go to a country to buy things, find a girl to solve personal problems, and the rest will not work. There is little money to spend, and the crew has nowhere to spend it if they want to spend it.
When it comes time to pay wages every month, everyone just looks to see if their wages have arrived, but most of our crews let their wives help to see, after all, the wages are directly paid to the card, so many crew members are not interested.
On the contrary, when we loaded the goods in Japan, we heard that we were going to the port of Newcastle, and we were very excited. Everyone is like "beating chicken blood", suddenly energetic, spirit.
The head of the boat made a big move, asking the first mate for leave to go down to the streets of Japan to buy cages. It's just a pity that I didn't buy anything I wanted, and I had to make it myself on the boat.
After three days in Japan, our ship finally left Japan. The sea voyage began for more than a month, aiming directly at Britain.
On this sea voyage, the crew, especially the ordinary crew, showed a particularly abnormal appearance. Especially the water and engine heads on the ship, they seem to be much more active than in the past.
In the past ship life, these two old people were the quietest people, they were old, they had no hobbies, and they hid in their rooms all day to watch women's movies, drink and smoke.
The ship's alcohol and tobacco warehouse seemed to be dedicated to these people, and they asked for half a cigarette a day and half a case of alcohol. These two people's rooms were completely afraid to go, and the smell of smoke and alcohol was very heavy.
However, they are still very self-disciplined people, who can get up on time and go to work during the day and complete work tasks step by step.
This time, somewhat unlike usual, they bought less alcohol and smoked less. Their concentration seemed to change, and both of them made big moves.
Every night after dinner, Shuitou wandered around the tool room alone, unable to see what he was going to do at first, asking him what he was doing, and not telling us.
It wasn't until the ship sailed in India that what he tinkered with was done. It turned out that he was making shrimp cages, crab cages.
And the coppersmith in the airport tool room is even more powerful, making harpoons and fishing nets. These people seem to be natural masters of fishing, as if they have worked on fishing boats since childhood. Everyone has their own skills, and the shrimp fishing equipment is very good.
I kind of admire them, but I don't know why they have such spirit to do this.
I don't know if I don't ask, they say that Newcastle is the world of seafood, no money, free fishing.
I don't believe what they say, let alone that there is so much seafood.
In order to confirm this, I also personally went to the bridge to find out about the driver.
Unfortunately, the driver and captain were at the helm station. But they talked about something completely different from what I wanted to know. They were chatting about the location of Ladies' Street in England.
I go to the UK relatively rarely, and the Netherlands and Germany are two countries I often go to, so I know more about the girls' streets in these two countries, and the crew must go every time they visit these two countries, so I will often follow them to the local area to feel the feelings.
The British don't know if they're more uninterested in this aspect or if people here also think that girls are shy about this kind of work.
It is generally difficult to see casually on the street, and you have to go to some relatively hidden places to see these places.
So, when I came to the bridge, I heard the captain and the pilot talking about this. I also jumped on the bandwagon, got close to them, and asked them if they were familiar with Newcastle.
Unexpectedly, one of my topics could let them talk for an hour, which was really unexpected, it seems that these old crew members have been to Newcastle too many times and know this port too well.
Unfortunately, I went relatively little to this port, and it didn't have much impact, mainly because of the relative shortage of time. They seem to be familiar with this place, and when it comes to this topic, it seems that they can't stop. Both of them were talking about their experiences in the local area, and one of them was the best that the captain said.
The captain said that he had eaten 12 pounds of lobster here, and the key is that such a large lobster was not bought with money, but caught locally by the crew themselves. As you might not expect, Newcastle has a river that meets the sea, the water is relatively muddy, but there is a lot of seafood in the river.
There are many creatures in the river, including swans, sea lions, lobsters, and crabs.
The captain said he has been running boats for more than 30 years and has caught seafood for free in many countries, such as free sea cucumber fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, free lobster fishing in Australia and free abalone digging in Morocco. There is so much seafood in these countries, and the locals don't eat much, which is what puzzles him.
In Newcastle, it makes the captain wonder, lobsters here, crabs can be seen everywhere, but people here just don't eat, but sea lions are more interested, sea lions are hungry and go into the river to fish, swans can also eat crabs.
The captain said this, which made me very interested in this country and looked forward to going to this country. It's no wonder that the water head and machine head are so active and active, and they want to buy cages in Japan in the early days like they want to catch lobsters and crabs.
Looking at these crew members, the spirit and spirit came, all of them had spirit, and even the chef was not idle.
The chef alone studies the seafood method in the kitchen. The chef is a northerner, not very good at seafood, and now he is about to go to Newcastle, and he has seriously studied the seafood method.
It seems that this time, everyone is ready to experience a different life in Newcastle.
Around the time our ship left the Strait of Gibraltar, the crew began to liven up and everyone was looking forward to arriving in Newcastle.
After about four days, our boat finally reached the mouth of Newcastle and waited for the pilot to board the boat.
Some crew members have already begun to look forward to the scene of the crew catching seafood in half an hour.
The water head and nose also put the pre-made fishing equipment on the deck of the ship, and they waited for the boat to arrive at the dock and start fishing after the formal formalities were completed.
I was thinking about the incident when our ship was in Africa, which was falsely deceived by the locals. Africans thought we were fishing illegally, and our crew was caught and fined not only according to local regulations, but also jailed, which made the crew suffer a lot.
Now, if they want to fish in Newcastle, will they also violate local laws and regulations?
I kindly reminded them that they didn't seem to disdain, and the head of the water told me that I had been here several times before, and every time I came here, I had to catch a lot of crabs and lobsters locally, and I didn't encounter this phenomenon.
It seems that these people are completely unworried about these regulations and already want to go about it.
Early in the morning, with the assistance of the pilot, we finally landed on the dock smoothly. As the pilot disembarked, local officials also came to the ship.
For the sake of safety, the captain was also very attentive, and especially asked the agent and relevant personnel whether the crew could go down to the local area to catch local crabs and lobsters.
The customs answer made everyone very satisfied, but we were not allowed to drive sea lions and catch swans.
Suffice it to say that we're not interested in sea lions and swans, crabs and lobsters alone are enough for us to have fun for a few days.
After all the formalities were completed that day, the water head and the machine head directly carried the large barrel and tools to the dock.
The pier here is different from the dock in other countries, and the pier here is an iron suspended pier, that is, the river is under the foot.
In order to feel that atmosphere, I also fought very hard. Just after work, I ran to the dock and looked for them to catch crabs. When I arrived at the site, half a bucket of crabs had already been caught in the bucket.
Looking at the crabs in the bucket, there are about two kinds, one is similar to the hairy crab, not large, and the other is a large head, like the king crab paste crab, the tongs are particularly large.
I was an eye-opener, and the crabs here were beyond my imagination. Others need to use meat as bait to catch crabs, and we don't, just a cage to sink to the bottom of the river, just wait five or seven minutes, and when you pull it up, you can get at least a dozen crabs.
At this rate, I really don't know how many crabs can be caught.
However, this river is a bit magical, the daily ebb and flow is very regular, usually there will be a big low tide in the morning, and then the high tide will be high at noon.
Interestingly, at low tide, crabs will run to the cage, and when the tide rises, the crabs will follow the tide back to the dock.
Lobster is interesting, the lobster here is blue, I saw it for the first time, and I didn't know if I could eat it. My colleague told me that this lobster is called blue shrimp, which is a lobster that can be eaten directly.
I wondered, these things are so good, they can be eaten directly, why don't the locals eat them?
What's more interesting is that when the workers stopped working that day, they came to the site to watch us catch, some told us that the seafood here was not edible, and some simply laughed at us Chinese we can really eat anything."
One of the British workers asked if we were from Guangdong?
I wondered, did the fact that Cantonese people can eat anything still reach the ears of foreigners?
Cantonese people can indeed eat anything, and can eat anything.
The British shook their heads as they watched our cages of crabs and lobsters being carried ashore and carried back to the boat.
I don't know what exactly caused them not to eat, they just told us that these things cannot be eaten.
But in the eyes of seafarers, these seem to be edible, not only we think so, but also the Filipino crew who came behind our ship, their boat leaned behind us, and they also saw that we were constantly fishing for seafood, they also made temporary fishing tools, and also caught a lot of back on board to eat.
It can be seen that these things can still be eaten. On that day, we caught at least five or six hundred catties of crabs and more than two hundred catties of lobsters. It was the chef who told us to stop fishing.
The chef believes that stale seafood is not delicious, and the fire of the crew eating too much will be very large, and the fire that has no place to vent is still very harmful to the body.
Of course, the chef must also consider that he is not very good at making these things, either steamed or fried.
The captain also saw that we had caught a lot of fish, so that we could not catch any more, otherwise the next time we came, we would be extinct.
Shuitou doesn't think so, he thinks that after more than 20 years of running boats, the seafood here has not decreased, but more and more.
I wondered if the river here had been polluted, otherwise why would the locals not eat these things? Are these things just for cleansing in their eyes?
The crew doesn't seem to care about that, but is still keen to catch crabs and lobsters.
I think that's the fun of the crew, who completely forget about the boredom of their life on board and devote themselves to fishing.
It's so rare to see them all excited and excited. Everyone wants to experience the experience, and no matter how busy they are at work, they have to pull up a few cages of seafood before they are willing to return to the boat.
In ordinary life, the life of the crew is boring, lonely, boring, and being able to encounter such a good thing really makes these crew members fully active and completely blooming.