Qilu Network Lightning News November 2, "What is the day today?" This is the most asked question by the crew on the ship. They drift on the sea all year round, watching the moon rise and set, and accompany the sea. In the days of chasing the moon at sea, they are full of thoughts.
Bao Jigang, who is now a first officer of COSCO SHIPPING's Anxiushan, is now in his 9th year of sailing at sea. It sails for more than 9 months a year, and has accumulated more than 500,000 nautical miles of safe sailing before and after.
In 2008, Bao Yigang was admitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Shandong Jiaotong University, and joined China Shipping International Guangzhou Branch after graduation in 2012, starting from the internship of three pairs, step by step, until the merger and reorganization of China COSCO Shipping Group.
Just after joining the work, Bao Yigang boarded the "Yueguanfeng" ship at the Pinghai Power Plant in Huizhou, which is a bulk carrier with a length of 225 meters, a width of 32.26 meters, a full load of 14 meters, and a deadweight of more than 70,000 tons. The first time I went to sea, everywhere is very fresh, but also from the spirit of "breaking the casserole and asking the end", as soon as I have time, I will run to the captain to ask this and that, and always have to ask a reason. That is, this time out to sea, when he returned to China, he encountered a 12-level typhoon, the average rocking of the ship to about 25 degrees, the maximum rocking to 35 degrees, continuous shaking for 3 days, that was his first seasickness, when he ate at noon, the first time he saw the meal did not want to eat, and wanted to vomit.
On the last flight of the internship, they waited for the flight instruction from Indonesia and prepared to sail to Brazil. I didn't expect this wait for more than half a month, driving for 42 days along the way, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, I didn't see a boat for ten days, as a foreigner, I first felt the loneliness of leaving the motherland and leaving home.
"After ten more days of anchors in Brazil, there was very little food to eat on board, so many sprouts, potatoes, onions every day, so much so that I don't want to eat them now." Bao Jigang said.
However, this situation is not bad, and the most feared thing at sea is to encounter extremely bad weather. Once sailed in the Tatar Strait on the east side of the Russian Asian continent, the terrain of the strait is like a horn mouth, the more open inward, the narrower the terrain, coupled with the temperate cyclones intersect here, forming a strong storm, a large wave with a wavelength of about 200 meters, the wave height of about 15 meters, "the ship climbs this 15 meters high wall of water, just like a rickshaw climbing a steep slope, on the one hand, it can not climb, the ship may slide down, on the other hand, because the length of the captain and the wavelength are almost the same, the bow and stern are mounted on two crests, the ship must be in the trough, Once the ship is overhead, it is possible to break from the middle. Bao Yigang recalled the thrilling moment at that time, "The captain chose a time when the wind and waves were the smallest, and directed me to slowly steer the ship around, and it took more than half an hour to turn the ship around and return to the ship." Later, many old seafarers still remember vividly: "I have never seen such a big storm in my life." ”
As a wanderer, in the days of wandering outside, I am worried about the motherland and hometown, and I have a deep understanding of the wealth and strength of the country. Whenever you sail to the African continent, you often receive Chinese FM shortwave radio stations along the African coast, which include programs that teach Chinese and African news broadcasts in Chinese.
"From their speeches we can hear heartfelt praise for our motherland. They are using substandard Mandarin, expressing their heartfelt envy for our birth in China. I deeply feel the prosperity of the motherland's overseas construction and the growing influence of the motherland. Bao Yigang said.
"Ride the long wind to break through the waves, and ride the giant ship to the end of the sky." These years of ups and downs, the hardships of which only I know. Bao Yigang said, "The cultivation of my alma mater has made my learning useful, and the strength of the country has resisted the 'wind and waves' for our crew." ”
Lightning News reporter Wu Lilan correspondent Tao Yuancheng reported