PERILS OF THE SEA

PERILS OF THE SEA

by: Capt. Daniel Winston S. Generato

Phenomenon that arises in ocean, at  bay or in sea,

Even in what location we might be...

Regardless of the type of vessel we're sailing in,

International or Domestic or from which you are trading in...

Latitude, Longtitude, from the North, the South, East or West or in

Seasons like Winter, Spring, Autum or Summer which is BEST...

Of course many of them back home say,we are LUCKY to see the WORLD for FREE, but

For they have the least idea, massive SWELL and GALE force winds are plenty and threaten to harm us unexpectedly!

Tropical Storms, Low Pressures or the dangerous Hurricanes...

Heavy Pitching and Rolling can drive you INSANE... but amazingly

Every SAILOR knows we'll see the sun happily arising after the heavy rain...

Sailor strives to remain focus, be brave despite of the odds and the homesickness working at sea

Everyone's prayer night and day, to finish the contract successfully, not for us but especially for our family...then

Again we can come home safe to the loving arms of our family, after the long months spent battling the 

"PERILS OF THE SEA"

Leadership style

What kind of Leadership do you possess onboard... What will be the best style to use onboard your ship:

Authoritative

Participative

Delegative

The Visit

The gate squeaks with rust. The flowers are gone. The ponds are empty and dry. Ceilings droop. Everything seems dilapidated. A contrast to how things were in the past.

I went around. I can almost feel my mother's breath on the walls. I still see vividly how she and dad had kept everything perfectly cozy and comfortable.

I was teary-eyed, thankful one daughter was with me. I see life, I see death. I see people come and go. I see rise and fall, excellence and destruction. I see life's cycle.

None of us wanted the house. No one amongst the eleven. No one wanted to stay. We have carved our niche elsewhere under the sun.

And so the old house shall stay. Until blown away by seasons, dust and wind. But wherever we go, whatever we do... a part of us remains there.

#TillTheNextVisit....

by: Mary Sarah Georgie Generato Flores

Prayer of a Survivor

Lord, you brought us here today bound by a common thread. 

Each of us has been a victim of injustice, bias, and inequality. 

We have suffered pain and desolation in different degrees.

Each of us found ourselves in a fight we did not cause,

a fight we did not start. 

There were times, we lost to these fights,

but we moved on and kept fighting anyway. 

We implore You now to come to our aid. 

To console us, to comfort us,

and to heal our hurts and pains. 

We recognize that it is through Your loving grace that we survived. 

And as such, no amount of threat or harm can injure us again

because we are not fighting our wars alone

since we have you with us. 

We trust.

We believe.

You are with us.

Amen.

Befalhavare's Chronicles of a Seafarer...

“Love your job and it will take care of you” - Capt. Daniel Winston S. Generato

This is always the advice he gave for the beginners.

Who is Capt. Daniel Winston Sabijon Generato? “Boyboy” as what they call him; the second to the youngest of 13 siblings; the only sibling who took Maritime Course. He was just an average midshipman a member of Sigma Rho Fraternity " Neptune Chapter " not even on the Dean’s list. He graduated his Associate in Marine Transportation at John B. Lacson Colleges Foundation-Arevalo (formerly Iloilo Maritime Academy) last April 14, 1993. Started his seafarering career last February 5, 1994 as a Deck Cadet onboard “MV Cadmus” owned by a Greek Company “PTL” Palmyra Tsiris Lines; a double boom General Cargo vessel under New Horizon Shipping in Ermita.

While on vacation (June 1995) after a year onboard, he decided to look for good standing shipping agency in Philippines. Again, he applied again as a Deck Cadet to Nordic Oriental Management “NOM” (now Swedish Crewing Management) before managed by Mr. George Guererro under the shipping agency “PTC” Philippine Transmarine Carrier Inc. in Makati by the help of his classmate 2/O Joremar “Ima” Gallinero who was in that time an OJT cadet. He was hired and but first to do an OJT cadetship together with Ima and a friend Michael Angelo De Filipe; in less than 3 weeks they (Winston, Ima & Michael) together went onboard “MV Forest Sovereign” a woodchips carrier vessel owned and manage by a Swedish company “Frontline/ Sea Partner”. He work onboard for total of 14.6 months as a “Deck Cadet (10 months) Messman (1.8 months) and Ordinary Seaman (2.8 months)”.

November 27, 1996, he joined the vessel “MV Atlantic Cartier” as an Ordinary Seaman. Onboard one of the OS was promoted to AB; and when he find out this OS (now 2/O Sixto Baldevia) who was promoted to AB has a 3rd Officer License and was his batchmate in Maritime School. This motivates him to move one step ahead, so he did his OJT Logbook and enroll to be Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation after 13 months onboard.

February of 1998 he got his diploma in Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation. Reviewed in RBR Areview Center in Ermita and successfully passed and got his first stripe; in which the people in San Miguel, Iloilo celebrates when the results was released because it is the day prior of the Town Fiesta (May 7, 1998). He completed his Deck Officer documents on 22 June 1999.

He joined 14 July 1999 as an Able Bodied Seaman and on October 28, 1999 the start of his life as a full pledge Deck Marine Officer; navigating and adventuring the Perils of the Sea;he was promoted as 3rd Officer onboard a Generation 3/ Roll-on Roll-off / Load-on Load-off “MV Atlantic Cartier.

He joined “MV Humber Arm” a paper carrier vessel May 1, 2001 as a 3rd Officer under Swedish Crewing Management principal “Gorthon Lines/ Sea Partner”. He sailed together with 2/O Nelson Fian. On July 13, 2001 there he was promoted to two stripes (2/O) relieving Nelson even without a Second Officer License only as per Master’s discretion; but after a month and 15 days he disembarked; he fractured his left wrist during docking while the vessel is proceeding to dry dock in Gothenburg, Sweden. He stayed on vacation for medication & therapies for 4.6 months and then back again at sea.

Year 2002 the Swedish Principal “Sea Partner” transferred to Orient Ship Management (now OSM Maritime Services Inc.); his service once again hired by Sea Partner and he joined “MV Tyrusland” last January 16, 2002 a Roll-on Roll-off vessel.

After his son’s (Dyland Winston Joseph) first birthday September 3, 2004 he decided to review and take his three stripes (Chief Officer Licensure Examination), when the result was released on November 25,2004, he was onboard MV Vasaland.

After completing all the requirements as Chief Officer on July 31, 2005 he joined under Torso Rederi/ Sea Partner “MV Windena” a Multi-purpose vessel as 2/O and was promoted to Chief Officer October 14, 2005.

After 3 years as Chief Officer he decided to go for the last stripes; so he took his Master Mariner Licensure Examination February 2008 and after 4 days; the result was published and he made it. He got his four stripes. He continues his career with OSM under the same principal “Sea Partner” with various ships (RoRo Passenger, Multi-Purpose & Bulk/General Cargo) as a Chief Officer.

While on vacation 2010; he decided to pursuit his career as Master. Mostly of the Captains of the principal were European and there is no slot for him in the Fleet. He asked permission from the principal and gracefully ended his career with OSM April 16, 2010.

He applied via “pinoyseaman.com” to the Shipping Agencies in Philippines and the Diamond-H Shipping Inc. hired him. On September 29, 2010 he joined a 5 months old Dutch owned “MV CFL Penhar” multi-purpose vessel as Chief Officer; after 3 months and 18 days (January 18, 2011) he was given the opportunity to command the said vessel by relieving his mentor Capt. Johnny Tayapad.

In his 20 years of sea experiences and to date, he is now a worldwide Master Mariner plus a part time Professional instructor to his Alma Mater (now John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University – Arevalo) and the Alumni-President of Sigma Rho Fraternity Neptune Chapter. I do believe that his knowledge in Shipboard assignments, experiences, and enthusiasm to share; these entire can help his fellow seafarer or students make the most of his compilations will help them in their future career.

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Most common videoke sung by a seafarer onboard a vessel....

SAILING

by: Rod Stewart

I am sailing, I am sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
I am sailing stormy waters
To be near you, to be free

I am flying, I am flying
Like a bird, 'cross the sky
I am flying, passing high clouds
To be with you, to be free

Can you hear me, can you hear me
Through the dark night far away
I am dying, forever crying
To be with you, who can say

Can you hear me, can you hear me
Through the dark night far away
I am dying, forever crying
To be with you, who can say

We are sailing, we are sailing
Home again 'cross the sea
We are sailing stormy waters
To be near you, to be free

Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free
Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free
Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free
Oh Lord

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Ship's Captain Obligation...

Ref: SOLAS CONSOLIDATED EDITION 2014 Regulation 33

Distress situation: obligations and procedures

1. The master of the ship which is in a position to be able to provide assistance, on receiving information from any source that persons are in distress at sea, is bound to proceed will all speed to their assistance, if possible informing them of the search and rescue service that the ship is doing so. This obligation to provide assistance applies regardless of the nationality or status of such persons or the circumstances in which they are found. If the ship receiving the distress alert is unable or, in the special circumstances of the case, considers it unreasonable or unnecessary to proceed to their assistance, the master must enter in the logbook the reason for failing to proceed to the assistance of the persons in distress, taking into account the recommendation of the Organization to inform the appropriate search and rescue service accordingly.

Ref: 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Art. 98-1)

- Every State require the Master of the flying its flag, in so far as he can do so without serious danger to the ship, the crew or the passengers:

a. To render assistance to any person found at sea on danger of being lost;

b. To proceed with all possible speed to the rescue of persons in distress, informed of their need of assistance, in so far as such action may reasonably be expected of him.

Ref: ISM Code

(Part A – Implementation) 5 Master’s Responsibility and Authority 5.1 The Company should clearly define and document the master’s responsibility with regard to:

.1  implementing the safety and environmental-protection policy of the Company;

.2 motivating the crew in the observation of that policy;

.3 issuing appropriate orders and instructions in a clear and simple manner;

.4 verifying that specified requirements are observed; and

.5 “periodically reviewing the SMS and reporting deficiencies to the shore-based management”  

5.2 The Company should ensure that the safety management system operating on board the ship contains a clear statement emphasizing the master’s authority. The Company should established in the safety management system that the master has the overriding authority and responsibility to make decisions with respect to the safety and pollution prevention nd to request the Company’s assistance as may be necessary.

  

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