Voyage From Keelung,Taiwan To Tanjung Pelepas,Malaysia Timelapse 4K

Video made of footages taken furing the voyage from Port Keelung,Taiwan to Tanjung Pelepas,Malaysia on Product Tanker made on June,2020. Vessel discharged at Port Keelung and departed for Tanjung Pelepas Outer Anchorage for loading from another Tanker Ship (STS operations). Footages were made in 4K quality ( excluding the video made on the Navigation Bridge which was made in HD).
By Bigmorr - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

[@chrisfitzmaurice7484]

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.

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Thank you very much,my dear friend! It`s not so difficult to make good a videos when you have a good footages) . Presently we live far from Odessa in western part of Ukraine where situation is more or less safe. Best wishes!

[@markmark2080]

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.

[@user-qx3ue3ze8p]

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

[@alexanderchessa1319]

Masterpiece one more

[@scottgray493]

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. 🤣

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Many thanks for comment! Long beam is the ship`s portable ladder, usulaly lowered down to terminal if a shore gangway is not provided

[@askcitizenfitz]

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!

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Greetings! Regretfully I didn`t follow the matters regarding the "Ever Given" Captain`s fate. I guess he might still be employed. Companies sometimes keep captains employed after an arguable accidents as the immediate dissmisal might imply full admission of guilt and subsequent higher penalties or compensations. I have looked through the final investigation report issued few months ago. You are absolutely right, there are not so many situations when captain can be fully exonerated after an accident. Assessing that situation I might say that the captain`s biggest mistake was his agreement to pass the Canal under such unfavourable weather conditions. Captain has full overriding authority with regard to any activity of his ship. Of course, there is always commercial pressure on the captain, especially on such a large ship but taking into account ship`s huge profile, wind force and narrow Canal he should reject transit till the weather improved. It`s very difficult to navigate the ship in such challenging conditions. Regarding the Pilots - they are just advisors and have a very limited responsibility in case of accident.

[@askcitizenfitz]

@@S.Kostan_1970 I'd think in cases like that one, if the captain balks at something and the company pressures him into doing it, if the ship does subsequently suffer an accident he can at least claim he was pressured into doing it. But I feel for the poor guy. Seems it was a lose-lose situation he was put into. As always, I'm a true fan of your cool channel.

[@S.Kostan_1970]

@@askcitizenfitz Thank you for comment!. Regretfully captain can not justify himself in this case as he has the overriding authority which is the SOLAS Convention requirement - no one may force a captain to do anything he would consider unaccaptable with regard to the safety of the ship). In other words he MUST not follow any orders from any parties (Ship Owner, local Officials, Charterers etc) if he considers that this would compromise safety of his crew and ship. I fully agree with you that sometimes its a big psychological pressure. On some occasions captains, as employees, who afraid of loosing their job, undertake some risk to make compamy happy. Otherwise, if they insist on their position,they shall justify it. To be honest its not the case nowadays for high-standart and well reputated company to press or not to listen to the captain`s point. Evergreen looks a high-standart company with strict adhrence to safety and its hard to assess was it any kind of pressure on captain from them. But anyway captain, as I said before, can not justify himself referring to pressure from "outside".

[@fernandoovalle3778]

Do cargo take passengers

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Usually no. Sometimes shipowner permits to take the crew member`s wifes onboard