There are all kinds of shipping industry initiatives which try to make life at sea better. There are those which focus on seafarer happiness, there is “wellness at sea” and all kinds of other attempts to make the lot of crew better. A new trend taking hold though, and it could just change the way people live, work and exist onboard ships…welcome to maritime mindfulness.
Read MoreFrom 20-26 June 2016 “Seafarers Awareness Week” will promote maritime job opportunities, at sea and ashore. It will also focus on increasing young children's knowledge of the UK's historic and ongoing 'island nation' dependence on seafarers.
Top seafarers share their best practical and medical tips on how to tackle seasickness Suffering from seasickness is probably about the most draining, debilitating, demoralizing and down-right awful feeling you can have that isn’t going to kill you. But on ships it can be something of an occupational hazard.
One of the more popular pastimes for many seafarers is fishing. It seems no sooner has the anchor grabbed the bottom, then the lines and hooks are thrown over the side and the angling begins. However...
Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin…when you are all set to leave the house to head back to sea it can be a real pain. So what are the essential bits and bobs which every seafarer needs....
People have always gone to sea for many different reasons – for some there is still a sense of adventure, for others the challenge, while some are in for the money - and pay the cost of being away fro...
There has been much made about the effect on Somali pirates that the various navies have made in the Indian Ocean. Another major element in deterring piracy ...
Brazil has soccer, the Philippines has basketball! As the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is set to show full games on merchant ships through KVH’s SPORTSlink™ and IP-MobileCast™ - we ask just...
Whether it's Hollywood, novels, documentaries, or good old fashioned history class, the lives of famous sailors (whether fictional or real) have permeated most parts of popular culture. As a member of...
