Philipinas.-A challenging but rewarding profession

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A challenging but rewarding profession

By Dinna Chan Vasquez | Jun. 28, 2014 at 08:01pm

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BEING a seafarer pays so much more than if one were a management trainee in a multinational company, which only hires graduates of UP, Ateneo and La Salle.
Chief Mate Bienvenido Arevalo Jr. (second from right) instructs students at the Bridge Simulator.

Chief Mate Bienvenido Arevalo Jr., dean of Lyceum International Maritime Academy (LIMA) in Batangas, recalls his first year as a trainee of a shipping company.

“I spent my first 13 months in land doing errands like cleaning cars and making coffee. It was actually very good training for me,” says Arevalo, who graduated from Lima in 1995.

He has had a rewarding career

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Tall Ships sail on, despite terror threat

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Tall Ships sail on, despite terror threat

July 25, 2014
 

PHOTO FEATURE: Dozens of the most graceful and historic vessels in the world have been sailing along Norway’s coast this month, as the annual Tall Ships Races called first at Fredrikstad in the south and then, this week, sailed into Bergen. The Tall Ships Races scheduled for this weekend unexpectedly coincided with heightened security around the country because of a vague yet credible threat of  terrorist attack, but the nautical extravaganza was surging forward as planned.

A total of 69 sailing vessels took part in the Tall Ships Races segment in Fredrikstad, 22 of them so-called “Class A.” They’re the biggest of the vessels and include Norway’s own three high-masted ships Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Christian Radich and Sørlandet.

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Ship traffic threatens blue whales

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Published on Friday, 25 July 2014 22:59
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Ship traffic threatens blue whales

Blue whales spend their summers in the shallow waters of marine sanctuaries surrounding the Farallon Islands and Channel Islands, offshore of San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. Scientists tagged blue whales and monitored their movements via satellite between 1993 and 2008, delineating core areas of use. Commercial shipping lanes intersect with these whale hot spots, sometimes resulting in fatal ship strikes.
*DATA EXCLUDE VALUES LESS THAN SIX.
NG STAFF, JAMIE HAWK. SOURCES: LADD IRVINE, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY; USGS

Ships struck and killed three blue whales in southern California alone in 2007, says study co-author Ladd Irvine, a marine mammal ecologist with Oregon State University in Newport. Two others were found dead in the same area, but the cause of death was

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La falta de personal del Instituto Social de la Marina bloquea 30 pesqueros

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Published on Friday, 25 July 2014 00:30
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Una treintena de embarcaciones de Lanzarote no pueden faenar al no cumplimentar las obligatorias revisiones de sus botiquines

d. rivero 24.07.2014 | 02:10

 

Una treintena de embarcaciones pesqueras de Lanzarote y Fuerteventura no pueden salir a faenar al no poder cumplimentar los permisos sanitarios obligatorios por falta de personal en el Instituto Social de la Marina (ISM) en Lanzarote. Las cuatro cofradías de pescadores de Lanzarote y La Graciosa han denunciado que Capitanía Marítima ha bloqueado los despachos de las embarcaciones que no cuentan con la revisión en regla de sus botiquines y de las revisiones médicas de toda la tripulación.

"Las embarcaciones de lanzarote y Las Graciosa no pueden despachar

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