Nice music! Skipper, how do you know you've let out enough chain?

I love the closed feeling of the night and the lights reflection on the water. Thanks Captain, have a peaceful weekend..🎵✌️

Pls keep on posting ..amazing content

Good to see another video by you, Skipper! Are you back at sea again?

Hello Captain, another all too short, but beautiful video. This took me back to 1965, my first time at sea and entering my first port, I was just out of 'boot camp' and down in the bowels of the ship. The guys took pity on me and told me to go up on deck, when I did we were just approaching the Golden Gate Bridge like in your video, what a thrill that was for an 18 year old inland kid...Cheers, hope all is well.

Not too foggy really, you can still see forward lol

Great footage of the passage keep them coming please.👍👍

Impressiv !! Is tug assist required for HazMat cargo at this bridge?

Wow. Tremendous video. Another adventure for myself before work. Thanks Captain 🌏

Sumitomo built :)

Esque cuida su cabesa

It’s crazy you are not allowed to throw a cardboard box for a safety drill. It is certainly irrelevant to marine pollution. Each man should have an emergency transmitter fitted, if submerged it automatically transmits to an alarm on the bridge and continues to ping like a submarine thus providing a geolocation range finder via stereo receivers updating coordinates to the man overboard regardless of ongoing wind, waves and current. That is my recommendation.

Next time to the savage 60th. There will be no need to send the men out with scrubbing brushes after the deck has been rinsed by deck washer. I am always ready to volunteer for these adventures as deck hand, kitchen assistant and general duties of various kinds + camera man.

Captain, did you ever hear what happened to the master of the Evergiven following that misadventure in the Suez Canal? Seems to me the real fault was the pilots... who were in a heated argument at the time of the accident. But I understand the master is ultimately held accountable if his ship suffers an incident. Great video btw!

Skipper, you have a rare kind of gift. Making videos that turn routine sea voyages into mystical experiences. As always, thanks for your hard work. Praying for you and your family's safety there in Odessa.

Capt it was a fantastic video of that trip thank you for sharing it with people who love the sea and shipping.

Stunningly beautiful video Captain, a real treat seeing those waters again and recorded so well. Spent a year criss crossing that region from the Gulf of Thailand to the Inland Sea of Japan back in the mid 1960s, we visited 20 locations a total of 36 times according to my little diary. Enjoy seeing the port activity from the high bridge vantage point, all too often I was 'down in the hole' when entering and departing. Master job of capturing the Dolphins, the joy they must feel playing/surfing with a ship. The ever present flying fish in the South China Sea is what I remember most. We experienced everything from mirror smooth seas to an all out typhoon, beautiful skies and Islands, thanks for taking me back, best wishes as always.

Masterpiece one more

As usual, visually stunning footage captain and great editing. The dolphins love you guys and gals for sure. What was the long beam like item hoisted and laid on the ships deck before departure. The activity swirling all around the tanker at departure is so cool to see. Like different organs in our bodies, all doing what they need to do to keep these flesh and bone tankers moving along. 🤣

Do cargo take passengers

I heard Odessa got hit by a missile strike last night. Let's pray for captain K's safety.

Thanks for another interesting video on the life of merchant mariners, Skipper. Something I find endlessly fascinating. I pray that the war doesn't come to Odessa - and that you and yours are all well. Long ago, when I was a seaman in the US Navy, one of the guys went overboard while painting the ship's boat. We were cruising back from the Bahamas towards Norfolk, Virginia at the time. The Ship did a Williamson Turn and picked him up, but it took a long time... about ten minutes. He must have been worried at thoughts of sharks and how many thousands of feet it was to the bottom. Later, the skinny got out that he did it to win a $5 bet. I asked him about it. He wouldn't admit it. But he didn't deny it either.

TAK TAM ZHE ZHARKO

V ROTER ZA TRAVKOYU

YAK VI TAM VITRIMUYETE, VI BOGI.

thank you for taking time and effort to make this video- it remembered me of the time i took my sailboat-license, ther where similar manouvers, but just under sails - greeting from germany

Hello again from Colorado, Captain, another detail concerning life at sea where nothing is ever to be taken for granted. It was good to see you 'in person', you're looking well, although I know things are a bit unsettling at home. I'm so thankful for my time at sea back in the '60s, I wouldn't trade those years for anything, many who 'missed out' show regret when I share my experiences with them. We had 'swim calls' out at sea a few times but not being a strong swimmer, I would just watch, the horror of being in that water unwillingly while your ship is moving off in the distance is hard to imagine... Another beautiful and interesting video, thanks again and best wishes to you and yours.

The thought of going overboard is horrendous. I would think it rarely happens under ideal weather conditions? Thanks for the informative video, Captain..✌️

Oil tanker in the south atlantic?

Машинка стиральная в спальне - это сильно! Первый раз вижу. Судя по мебели китайский пароход.

Amazing video! Thank for posting!

Skipper, if you read this, what were your usual ports and routes?

I have to say that I view many of these videos with a quiet smile.. My first career was as a professional yacht skipper, almost ten years, primarily carrying out delivery work of all types yachts, both sail and motor yachts world-wide before transferring to the multi-million pound toys found in the world's more exotic locations where a civilized existance could be found. The seas depicted here are without doubt horrendous and certainly dangerous to any poorley constructed, maintained or handled ship.. But as for the experience, I can tell you that a 35ft or 40ft sailing yacht or motor yacht making way to windward in even a simple force six would be 50 times worse for the crew than what we see here. Standing on the bridge of a ship, dressed in everyday average clothing with a mug of coffee.. that bears No resemblance to the experience of being in the cockpit of a small yacht.. sometimes for many days and nights with no warm food, cold, sometimes freezing, sodden wet clothing, no adequate sleep and extreme fatigue.. equipment failing or breaking.. No, give me that comfort of a ship's wheelhouse and a dry warm berth waiting for me at the end of my watch :>)

Looks like a great adventure. I would be happy to sit quietly watching the majestic sight hour after hour. I watched the sea all day as a boy and wrote a story about being the captain of an oil tanker at 7 years old 1978 after being detained in a mass arrest on the school yard. I will volunteer free on your oil tanker cleaning the windows keeping everything spotless on the bridge and bringing tea and coffee, and learning the language. I hope we will get big waves like this.

I loved my 2-inch brush so much I still have it to this day, I keep it in a glass-fronted box attached to my wall. It has had 37 handles and 68 bristle blocks.

i used to work on that type of ship. I was always out in all weathers painting with my 2-inch brush.

Cool music..!!!!

I've paddled these kind of seas, in nothing more than a long thin bit of carbon fibre...you'd be amazed at how well those things can take the huge swells. It's a beautiful waterworld when you're in one, quite exciting.

This was really well done. Let me know if you ever want an original song for one of your vids.

Could be interesting......why so fast?

Thats a nice windshield wiper system!!

New subscriber here. Love this footage. Can’t wait to check out more of it!

Many years ago, I covered this route in November on a 15,000 DWT ship during a hurricane with a load of sheets and other steel products. We were storming, so we were blown off course by over 100 miles to the southat tilts of over 30 degrees. There was a lot of damage on board and in the holds, but it ended safely in the port of Quebec and Montreal, still without ice. Greetings to the crew.

tank you wanderful video

The good thing about these big vessels is that they do not pitch like hell. So you can eat your soup in an easy way.

I'm surprised it was worthwhile to bring petroleum products to Canada from western Europe, even in 2014. Somebody thought it was a good idea,

What’s the reason that Panama Canal was not used was it ( Haz materials …? )

Nice video! Thank you. Chile is so beautiful.

Fantastic video, many thanks.

Hello again from Colorado, Captain, beautiful sunrise entry into port. It's a treat to experience these operations from the perfect vantage point as most crew members are often stuck at their below deck duty stations. I recall as we were entering Hong Kong harbor back in the 1960s, I climbed up the escape trunk from the aux engine room to look around, I'll never forget that amazing sight. Thanks for sharing, getting close to 1K, best wishes.