Four days ago a young sailor, 25 year old Filip Rinčić from Split died in a tragic accident in the China Sea aboard a cargo ship.
It is assumed that he was crushed by a port hole door in the deck - which weighs many tons..Though he was not participating in our project, Filip is a colleague sailor, born in the same city as the two mariners who we are following, and I am taking the opportunity to pay respects to the young man. One of many young men lost at sea trough out the centuries.
The news reminds us how dangerous working aboard these huge ships can be. Technology has evolved shipping, but still the men's lives are permenentley at risk aboard the ship.
They are at risk without ever needing to leave the port, and still more once they set sail, out at the ocean rolling in huge wave swells, exposed to all sorts of weather, to ice in water , to pirates, to mal function, and to the very breaking up of the ships hull due to slamming of the ship on to the waves.
I head discussion of these news around a tea table, between two mothers of young sailors who are at this moment away abroad a ship. The mothers shuddered in realisation of how dangerous the jobs their sons have, and in relief ,to have after their heart almost stopped beating whilst they read the morning's headline- -discovered that their son was not on the vessel in question.
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