Thank you for generously using your personal internet time to post this vid. We know that you are very busy, but we sometimes can forget that when you are out to sea, that you do not have unlimited internet access time like we might have.
I've worked in Electrical/Mechanical maintenance all my working career (presently retired). Never did I think I would be watching shipboard maintenance videos, yet here I am. Machinery is just fascinating to me. Thank you Chief for bringing your world to us.
Thank you for letting us into your world! Do you spend some of your leisure time editing your videos, to be uploaded while in port? Your RU-vid videos are so nicely done, plus I love your drone work, too! You said 2 GB a MONTH? Damn, yeah, that would limit you to emails without photos...If I were a woman of means, I would gift you a Viasat receiver and a year's unlimited service! You deserve it for your educational and entertaining content!
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to make these videos. It is very interesting to watch what goes on in an industry and environment that most of us will never see in person. The content is outstanding with a fine balance of narration in terms that make it easy to understand. Safe travels.
Many thanks! Your days are at the same time very similar and very different to our days of running the engine rooms on Mississippi River towboats. Much of what is done is the same, and we had less equipment and fewer crew. (Usually just me and a helper standing square watches.) Your videos give me a view into another world, I'll be back for more. Thanks again!
Very interesting as always. I imagine that you haven’t had many typical “at sea” days recently and will be looking forward to getting under way again soon. Always looking forward to your next video.
I liked that you described engine room conditions and let the volume of it play while talking, unless you’ve been there most people wouldn’t understand the conditions of working in that heat, noise and vibration. It always amazed me how engineers could communicate with each other from different levels or across a space, me, what did he say?
I am in Iowa, its after four PM and I am stuck in a line at the Des Moines sewer plant waiting to unload a tanker of restaurant FOG (fats, oil, grease). Apparently the plant is suffering from some sort of failure. On a normal day I can get through here in under 20 minutes. Today I've been here several hours with three trucks ahead of me. Watching your video is helping me to pass the time. Thank you.
The Chief Engineers are always the unsung heroes of ship travel. They keep ships running, and in an emergency, can save lives. My grandpa was a chief engineer in the U.S Navy, and made it to the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
As you're traveling for a long distance how do you cope with the time change as you're underway from day to day, or do you maintain the same time on the ship?
On cruise ships underway, time changes an hour every two or three days running from Los Angeles to Hawaii. Some consumer devices don't support the time zones en route. (fitbit)
I’m about to go to a maritime academy for deck. Hats off to you guys that can make a career in a 98 degree engine room turning a wrench. I’ll continue complaining how cold it is on the bridge😂
2:04 I love it! Rice, Spam, and an egg. My mother used to make that same meal for us in the 1960's. But what if you don't like Spam? What if they serve for lunch SpamSpamSpamBakedBeans and Spam? (Ha ha, this is reference to Monty Pythons "Lumberjack" sketch.) BTW love this vid. I always was curious as to what goes on with a person with great responsibility in a day on a ship.
I was working with a man today who I met for the first time and he is from the Philippines who worked on ships and I told him about this channel and I'm not subscribed but here you are 🤔
I was a marine engineer in the Canadian Navy... lots of the equipment looks familiar , only yours is bigger ! we used to melt the plastic waste into " hockey pucks" that could be disposed of later
Love your management style....Builds confidence and trust. Very comprehensive reporting. Gotta be tought limited Wifi and internet access. Wouldnt it be great to finish your day on time...:-) As always..safe sea's ahead Chief !
Remember an old Chief showing me how to 'spin' out a purifier by filling it with gas oil about 50yrs ago. Worked a treat. You'll have to explain to the viewers the art of communication in the E.R. with the noise of the turbo blowers howling. No salt tablets for breakfast? Great series.
@@ginog5037 was on one ship, the Gulf Coast ( ex Leeds - Humber Associated Lines ) running down to West Africa. One degree in E.R.temp would raise the exh temps by 10 degrees. Could work in temperatures up to abt 105 F but not much above that .Interesting how you adapt and can sweat profusely after a while which helps keep you cool.
@@ginog5037 No computers back then, but we used to have to keep easing the engine back (to maintain exh temps at 800 F) On returning back to colder weather we would gradually increase the revs again, only to have the inevitable 'Scavenge Fire! ' Ho Ho!
And yet another excellent video. Besides better video equipment, your production skills have gotten better with time. I'm still looking forward to your post-career documentaries! (I know it must be getting tiresome reading that).
Do you think StarLink (and/or other providers getting into the Low Earth Orbit sat scene) will be widely adopted in the commercial shipping industry to improve internet access for crew?
Great vlog as always! Still an officers mess? Why no film of lunch and dinner? No overtime? Where will Christmas and New years be? I miss your in town vlogs! Keep up the good work. Be safe!
Interesting comment about your limited WiFi/internet communication with home. Imagine sailing with Cook on his Pacific voyages. Once you’re over the horizon, that is it for years sometimes. Can see modern people doing that.
Hey chief, was wondering if you recommend an engineering degree to get in the engine department? Or is working up through the ranks just as good? Thank you.
Chief, do you think a white boy like me would do ok as a mariner? It seems like southeast Asian folks dominate the industry (which I don't mind, I ain't about that "they're stealing our jobs!" type of stuff), and I'm curious what ship culture might be like for someone like me who might not have the same cultural background as most crewmen. Those barbecues and everything you've talked about look awesome, I don't really mind being the odd man out, and I don't mind hard work with weird hours and long periods away from family, either. I'm curious whether you'd be willing to talk more about shipboard culture and how crew members from different backgrounds integrate into it. Being a mariner is one of the most international jobs there is, so if I had to guess, it wouldn't be a problem for a crewman to come from a different culture? Either way, could be an interesting topic to go more in depth on. I have a feeling a lot of young people are watching your videos and asking themselves the same questions.
I like your show and your personality. I never came to an C/E. I ended as 3rd Eng. Off. But i enjoyed every day. Now i have ashore job in the port and its fantastic. Keep strong mate. 💪
Fixed overtime as per contract. We also have to take into account the ILO requirements for rest period. Port authorities are very strict when it comes to that.
Chief, I strongly recommend you try one of the sleep cycle smartphone apps. You start the app and lay your phone under your pillow as you sleep. It uses the phone's motion detector to figure out your sleep cycle and wake you close to your alarm-clock time when you're least asleep. It sounded like a gimmick to me, but I really find it helps me get up on time without snoozing, and with much less groggy feeling. The app I use is called "Sleep Cycle". I don't pay for any subscription.
Never occurred to me that you / ship's have to deal with the many different "TIME-ZONE(s)." I'm assuming you try to keep to your home local (and office) time? Looking forward to hear that now freshly rebuilt gen-set startup! Thanks so much for making / editing/ uploading this video. Stay safe, Chief MAKOi
In your experience would it be very hard or complicated to store stuff like cardboard etc and recycle those materials once the ship gets to the next port, rather than just burning it?
A sort of conventional day for a senior engineer. The big thing is you can't jump in the car at the end of the day and drive home. And every few days you can be in a completely different country. You have to cope with months away but then you get long breaks at home. That isn't a bad thing really. The land bound guy works all year with the odd week or two off. Or the self employed guy like me works nearly all the time with no holidays. I can see why this life at sea would appeal.
Hi Chief... Do you have any remote readouts on ship's systems on your desk computer - that you can check from your cabin during odd hours? And what would a day look like for the junior Engineers? Do they rotate shifts, how long are their shifts, and is there always one or two on duty monitoring the systems on the overnights? How many are there, and can you get them all moving quickly in an emergency? And your internet should improve greatly when SpaceX's Starlink is fully operational --- if your company lets you subscribe.
I thought engine rooms got a lot hotter than 37 C (98.6 F)? I kept hearing navy stories of engineers sweating very heavy and even getting heat stroke from working long hours in 45 C (112 F) conditions. Then again, they were older 1960s era navy ships
Rice, one egg, spam..yep.. America's greatest export to the pacific ocean states and the pacific rim. God bless the Hormel Meat Company! Feeding the Pacific basin since 1942!
Thank you for another insightful and well presented video keep up your excellent work best wishes for you and your family, love Michael Edinburgh 🏴
Love this channel Chief. I am doing a maritime engineering degree. And start my onboard training in the summer. During overtime work is it possible to help out the deck department or only engine room overtime
you actually remind me of my Dad his also a Marine Chief Engineer , truth is his out working for the longest he would work for 4 to 5 months and be bck only for 2 to 3 days so yeah sometime he'd be gone a yr and come for a leave, I really miss him alot as I watch your video but at the end is all worth it😢❤
helo chıef :) thanks for vıdeo, you very lucky, maybe I fınısh more than 15 contract by CE but I never seen workıng prınter and computer ın my cabın, only ecr, also I never seen coffe machıne ın offıcer mees room only brıdge, also I never watch any overhaul from back sıde always I do sometıng for save the day..
Chief, regarding internet access, is Starlink being installed on cargo ships yet? Not sure what they charge for maritime access but at least the connection quality should be quite nice.
Hi there, I finished the first courses, I mean mandatory course like, PST, PSSR, EFA, PFF and Security Awareness but till now I didn't get sea time many agencies needs an experience and I never work at the sea before, the position I like to work is engine room, what should I do to get sea time
Hi Chief Makoi, of course we get ready for the next one. With Sam Chui you're my favourite RU-vid channel. With you we go all over the world, at home. We wish you the best for the next inspection, God bless you, your team and your family.
I used to work as a 3rd marine engineer way back 1985 and license 2nd marine engr sayang sana ipinagpatuloy ko profession ko till Chief engr kaso we move to US way back 1991 so hindi ko narating ang pinka mataas na position sa barko lahat ng batchmate ko naging Captain and Chief Engr
A prividige Chief, and thanks for taking us along. At 9:50 it was interesting to hear more aobout your internet access, do you know of ships or crews using Starlink? Seems that could really change the quality of life for crewmembers.
Nice video for all the landlubbers. Very rare for me to see a chief in a boiler suit, nonetheless everyone wearing a helmet in the engine room. It that stated in your SMS? Very sad to hear you only get 2GB a month, i have never received less than 1.5GB since it became available on ships.
Interesting! How does a ship at sea -assuming its route goes across a few timezones- adapt to time's changes? Do you ignore them or do you follow 1:1? Is your ship's noon in line with the sun?
Love your videos Do you ever use the Noon engine and machinery reports to identify emerging mechanical problems and change parts before they fail ? Maybe you should investigate getting a Starlink internet system on board
