40% of the World's Mariners are Filipinos

[Selurong]

Sunday, April 6, 2014


THERE are more than 400,000 Filipino seafarers deployed overseas, roughly 35-40 percent of the world’s mariners, and 60,000 more working in domestic routes.

Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya made the disclosure in his speech during the commencement exercise of more than 1,000 graduates of marines courses at the University of Cebu-Maritime Education Training Center (UC-METC) last April 3.

Abaya praised UC-METC, which he said is known for excellence in academic training.

He said UC-METC was named Region 7’s “Maritime Training Center of the
Year” by the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina).

“From January to November 2013 alone, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported that sea-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) remitted US$4.765 billion to the Philippines, which is equivalent to a whopping P213 billion infused into our local economy,” he said.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local...ariners-336851

If Filipinos as a constituency would stage a strike...

(Which they should because they are overworked, underpaid and ignored)

Then the worldwide shipping industry would grind to a halt.

http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/1534-%...%E2%80%99.html

[The Lawspeaker]

For what I have noticed they are better mariners than drivers. Put a Filipino on a boat (not one of those leaky ferries) and you will get to your destination in one piece. Put a Filipino behind the wheel and he will go from civilised human being to psychopathic mass-murderer in under 2 seconds.

[Selurong]

For what I have noticed they are better mariners than drivers. Put a Filipino on a boat (not one of those leaky ferries) and you will get to your destination in one piece. Put a Filipino behind the wheel and he will go from civilised human being to psychopathic mass-murderer in under 2 seconds.

We were never fit to be on land. Unlike in continental cities and civilizations: Rome, China or Mexica, were roads where the people's highways, our highways were the seas and rivers.

Before the Europeans came. Our cities are mostly port-settlements and our highways were the rivers and seas.

Here's an example of a Pre-European settlement.





But we thanks the Europeans for teaching us to be more land-based creatures.

But we adjusted pretty badly.

[The Lawspeaker]

We were never fit to be on land. Unlike in continental cities and civilization, Rome, China or Mexica, where roads where the people's highways, our highways were the seas and rivers.

Before the Europeans came. Our cities are mostly port-settlements and our highways were the rivers and seas.

Here's an example of a Pre-European settlement.





But we thanks the Europeans for teaching us to be more land-based creatures.

Being a Dutchman I know how you feel. Like the Filipinos, the Indonesians but also the Danes, the Norwegians, the Portuguese and the English we are a maritime nation.

[Selurong]

Being a Dutchman I know how you feel. Like the Filipinos, the Indonesians but also the Danes, the Norwegians, the Portuguese and the English we are a maritime nation.

Omigod. I Idolize the Dutch! Especially in their reclamation projects in the seas.







Pure engineering genius.

What's even great are your future projects in Jakarta

(Garuda island reclamation area)



And finished projects in Dubai



Dutch geniuses!

I think we have the capacity to duplicate the Netherlands in land reclamation too.



In case of global warming and rising sea levels. We can damn off Manila bay by building a sea wall across into Corregidor island like what you Dutch did in this place.



I love Dutch engineering genius.

[The Lawspeaker]

Omigod. I Idolize the Dutch! Especially in their reclamation projects in the seas.







Pure engineering genius.

What's even great are your future projects in Jakarta

(Garuda island reclamation area)



And finished projects in Dubai



Dutch geniuses!

I think we have the capacity to duplicate the Netherlands in land reclamation too.



In case of global warming and rising sea levels. We can damn off Manila bay by building a sea wall across into Corregidor island like what you Dutch did in this place.



I love Dutch engineering genius.

When you're living in a small and extremely flat country that is harassed by one big storm after the other you tend to start thinking about how to protect yourself. I had the misfortune of ending up a cyclone last year when I was in Manila (I already dodged two: one went for Mindanao and the other hit Luzon and we were on Siargao) and it was no laughing matter so the Philippines needs to start thinking about adequate defences. For their own sake. Some years ago my girlfriend was stuck in her apartment for two weeks because of a cyclone that turned half of Manila into a toilet bowl. And I think we both remember the big one that wrecked Leyte last year. It was the Philippines version of 1953. One of our mutual friends has family in that particular area so she was quite worried.

[Hexachordia]

I hope they will grow some brain to write down stories they experienced at sea. Some chinese sailors had did it, there had been murders, ufos, cryptomarine creatures, betrayals, hell of a stories. They should fucking write a library.

[The Lawspeaker]

I hope they will grow some brain to write down stories they experienced at sea. Some chinese sailors had did it, there had been murders, ufos, cryptomarine creatures, betrayals, hell of a stories. They should fucking write a library.

The Philippines has a very interesting literary history but it should always be expanded upon.

[Hexachordia]

The Philippines has a very interesting literary history but it should always be expanded upon.

Modern ages is ridden with more supernatural interferences, sporadic murders. There is a chinese forum where retired sailors tell their experiences, supernatural, cryptozoology, ufo, fights, murders, I was amazed they were not educated untill highschool, but speaking of these stuff like professionals. One has to rely on humans primitive instincts to survive on sea, and would return as a philosopher, or die and forgotton.

[The Lawspeaker]

Modern ages is ridden with more supernatural interferences, sporadic murders. There is a chinese forum where retired sailors tell their experiences, supernatural, cryptozoology, ufo, fights, murders, I was amazed they were not educated untill highschool, but speaking of these stuff like professionals. One has to rely on humans primitive instincts to survive on sea, and would return as a philosopher, or die and forgotton.

True. I have noticed the same tendency in Dutch fisherman's tales or sailors tales (which were usually recorded and past on). Most of those people could barely read and write but they managed to pass on the most amazing details of natural and "super" natural (unexplained) occurrences. Maybe that's something typical of naval peoples.