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[00:00:11] We are taken to Preemerhaven, Germany mainly by a cargo ship carrying machinery,
[00:00:14] the Stena
[00:00:15] Forteller.
[00:00:18] To our surprise, we don't wake up at sea, but in Finland. It turns out that
[00:00:22] the ship also loads cargo here, and only then can we head south.
[00:00:26] We are not allowed to film the
[00:00:43] machinery on the outer deck, but Chief Mate
[00:00:47] Viktor takes us to the lower cargo deck, where we are allowed to take
[00:00:50] a tour.
[00:01:14] So it's a big variation of cargos. You can see we have some bones, we have
[00:01:18] stones,
[00:01:19] machines.
[00:01:27] And by the way, there's paper, there's
[00:01:30] market, and wood is loaded from pallets,
[00:01:33] these machines, the tracked ones where you
[00:01:38] have metal tracks. Since the
[00:01:41] steel is metal also, you have very poor friction with steel on
[00:01:45] steel. So what we do then is we put, uh, either rubber, or in this
[00:01:48] case, wood in between that compresses and increases the
[00:01:52] friction in
[00:01:55] addition
[00:01:57] the regular fashion. Viktor said one day he tried to fit
[00:02:00] all sorts of these machines here, and then he found that he had
[00:02:04] left 43 tractors out of that equation,
[00:02:08] and all the work had to be redone and they started recalculating, playing
[00:02:12] around to see what comes from which port, what
[00:02:15] gets off first, what gets off later.
[00:02:19] That's basically his
[00:02:20] job.
[00:02:35] Viktor hands us over to the next guide, Senior Mechanic
[00:02:38] Tänni. After him, we go down several floors from the deck.
[00:03:00] "the heart of the ship, as they call it. So we
[00:03:04] are, see, we are first engineer, two second
[00:03:08] engineers, one electrician
[00:03:11] and one motorman and one fitter. So we are
[00:03:15] in total six down there. So as I
[00:03:18] said, this is the engine control room. We control
[00:03:20] everything, engines. These are the main engines and these
[00:03:24] are the auxiliary engines to produce the
[00:03:29] moment for Hannah to electricity on board." But only like this is zero
[00:03:32] and zero stops. Only two engines are, yeah, we're only running on two engines now
[00:03:36] on very low, so not the maximum speed. No,
[00:03:40] what's the maximum speed? Depends a little bit on weather and
[00:03:43] everything, but around 20
[00:03:45] knots.
[00:03:49] So we can we can see practically
[00:03:52] everything on the ship. It's mean, it's like, it's
[00:03:56] like a small community. We're having all the fresh water,
[00:03:59] electric, sewage, ventilation, everything like a
[00:04:03] normal town or any community has and we control
[00:04:06] everything from
[00:04:07] here.
[00:04:13] So this is just the engine workshop where
[00:04:16] we have all the tools and such doing repairs.
[00:04:33] "I'm trying to explain how awfully hot it is in this engine room, but in this
[00:04:37] noise, you can't even hear your own thoughts,
[00:04:40] and these engines are not that exciting to look at, because they have much more
[00:04:44] interesting
[00:04:45] details in the workspaces.
[00:04:51] The men here in the engine room didn't want to
[00:04:54] well, do we? We have just such a black handle, so they brought
[00:04:56] gear levers from a car, skull-shaped and made." To make
[00:05:00] this place a bit more homely.
[00:05:45] "At dinner, we are promised that we will be allowed onto the captain's bridge, and with
[00:05:48] that, we will have covered the most important points of the ship.
[00:06:23] So, K one
[00:06:26] zero. So we're
[00:06:30] already
[00:06:33] changing 8.5, and it
[00:06:35] turns.
[00:06:38] I turned the knob and steered the ship. They laughed
[00:06:41] at it, that it's such a small thing. It was so cool, like
[00:06:45] you just turn a small knob and you see how this
[00:06:49] big, big, big ship really
[00:06:52] reacts to it.
[00:06:55] Well, but you actually have experience. I overheard your father's call, who
[00:06:59] said, "Eee, Keiti, what are you talking about? You haven't slept on ships." Actually, you
[00:07:03] are a tough ship's girl. Yeah, in my childhood, my father was
[00:07:06] on a fishing boat, working, and then I would go for weeks, to be
[00:07:10] honest, when the fishing ended in spring, then I
[00:07:14] would still go with them, and there I remember too, I was
[00:07:17] so happy when the captain held me like this by the steering wheel, just in
[00:07:21] case I didn't drive completely wrong, but but I remember those
[00:07:24] moments when I was so proud, "Yes, I'm driving myself!"
[00:07:41] So the little rascals are here now. At sea.
[00:07:44] I can't imagine, everyone stayed standing and they will reach
[00:07:48] the port quickly, maybe. If there's a strong wind pushing fast,
[00:07:52] but
[00:07:55] my brother has a really good, safe feeling being in the big sky right now.
[00:08:54] I have here, wow, karaoke, I now, if I could
[00:08:58] find out how this works, I would scare
[00:09:02] these sailors a little here. You like rock too,
[00:09:05] I don't like it at all, but I think if you've been here for like the fourth day already,
[00:09:09] then you'll start to like any activity there is. Not
[00:09:12] sitting, well look at this, everything is tied
[00:09:16] down with straps, ship stuff,
[00:09:19] so if it's wavy, you wouldn't lose
[00:09:22] expensive equipment. Here are non-slip
[00:09:26] rubbers and additionally, straps and ropes.
[00:09:47] "My ear is resting, so good.
[00:10:09] First time in my life I'm driving through such a long
[00:10:13] bridge. This bridge connects
[00:10:17] Sweden and Denmark, Malmö and
[00:10:19] Copenhagen.
[00:10:30] Here are high-speed trains, cars driving above.
[00:11:00] "And you know, the romance of a cargo ship is slowly starting to appeal to
[00:11:03] me too, like such cool corners, and
[00:11:07] these cars and chimneys and tractors and all
[00:11:11] of it
[00:11:11] is so good.
[00:11:21] So why are you going to Portugal? Exactly, aha?" "
[00:11:25] We're um, just trying to get to Porto, actually.
[00:11:29] Aha, Porto, yeah. So you don't know what next
[00:11:32] boat? No. Oh my God, that's
[00:11:35] tricky, is it? I don't know, we don't know
[00:11:39] either, we're just going to do it. Oh man, that's a good one. I
[00:11:42] thought you have everything planned all the way. No, no, no, it's just
[00:11:45] intriguing. Oh man, that's perfect. And it's possible. We'll
[00:11:49] see, we'll see. But, but all these, uh, you have all
[00:11:53] these securities and everything. How you passed that?
[00:11:56] Yeah, basically, yeah, we are, we have
[00:12:00] insurance, but that's all. And we have life jackets. Yeah, we
[00:12:03] have life jackets, but you haven't, you haven't contacted the company, so you
[00:12:07] just asked the captain or? Yeah, we're going to try to get on
[00:12:11] on yacht boats, sailboats, okay? Yeah, mostly. But
[00:12:15] if we can't find any sailboats, then we're going to find these captains and
[00:12:18] ask, "Can you take us?" It doesn't matter what? Wish.
[00:12:22] No, okay. Just on on
[00:12:42] the rest from this week, the food, so we serve it again. Okay, so it's every Sunday. Yeah, every Sunday we take the the week with all the leftovers, we
[00:12:45] eat today. Oh, okay, so that's why it's not so much
[00:12:48] cooking now. Leftover
[00:12:52] day, basically.
[00:12:55] So so you are the one who makes the
[00:12:58] menus? Yeah, everything. So even I
[00:13:01] buy everything and yes, I'm in charge
[00:13:05] of everything inside the boat, you know. For example,
[00:13:09] toilet paper, soap, laundry
[00:13:12] powder, everything. Buy fixed. So you buy it every week that
[00:13:16] applies, or a month or
[00:13:18] actually
[00:13:20] when we are ashore. You know, this trip takes nine days around
[00:13:24] from all
[00:13:26] so actually I buy every nine days. Okay.
[00:13:30] So when I'm in Turkey, I buy fresh
[00:13:33] milk and like that. And now in Germany, I buy
[00:13:36] fish and meat. And everything is cheaper in
[00:13:39] Germany. Oh, everything has to be planned out.
[00:13:43] Yeah, of course. So you, you had
[00:13:45] to, you had to write the menu and then you had to know
[00:13:49] how much you need for and how many people on
[00:13:52] board. So this is the herring. This is a
[00:13:55] salmon. It's been in the fridge
[00:13:58] for two days or 48
[00:14:01] hours. You have seen this before,
[00:14:05] yes.
[00:14:10] So and now you have to try. You
[00:14:13] see slice
[00:14:16] if you want to try. There are no bones left. Now no, they're
[00:14:20] gone. And you have to slice very
[00:14:23] thin. Like
[00:14:26] this. How long have you been a
[00:14:29] cook? Oh my God.
[00:14:32] I've been, I've been working in restaurants for over
[00:14:36] 30 years.
[00:14:39] So then I have my own restaurant for 20 years.
[00:14:41] So you still had a restaurant? No, no, I
[00:14:45] had until I started here working on ships. But why did
[00:14:48] you come working on ships? Because it didn't work out
[00:14:52] so good, the business. Okay? Because I have a small
[00:14:56] cafe in Gothenburg and it didn't work out so good, so that's why
[00:15:00] I closed that and then I stopped working. And
[00:15:03] because it's easy to, for
[00:15:06] example, work as a chef in in a city is very stressed
[00:15:09] and you work weekends and everything, so the boat is perfect. You work four weeks
[00:15:13] and then you're free four weeks, and that's
[00:15:16] suits. Okay. Basically, work half a year, yeah, six
[00:15:19] months, yeah. Everybody does,
[00:15:23] except the Filipinos. They work more and they work six
[00:15:40] And you like working on the ship? You know, I can
[00:15:43] feel the
[00:15:46] yeah, it's okay. Today it's very calm. It could
[00:15:49] be worse, yeah. But then you change the menu, of
[00:15:53] course, if it's too bumpy. You can't serve
[00:15:56] everything. Sometimes you, you had to
[00:15:58] stand like this, so then you change the menu for something
[00:16:02] easier, so and everybody understands that.
[00:16:06] And most of the people who were bumping, they're not so hungry,
[00:16:09] so it works out very
[00:16:12] good.
[00:16:50] While the ship's management consists of Swedes, the manual labor is mostly done by
[00:16:54] Filipinos.
[00:16:57] For several days, the very friendly and always smiling Männi has been bringing us food.
[00:17:01] But how long are you here? Six months
[00:17:04] and then you can go home for six months. Two months on,
[00:17:08] two months home, and then again six months. Yeah, yeah, that's my
[00:17:11] life. But a lot of
[00:17:14] Filipinos uh work on the
[00:17:17] ship all for the same reason. Yeah, yeah, the same reason. Yeah.
[00:17:21] Better salaries, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if I work
[00:17:24] in very small, only for the, yeah, only
[00:17:27] for the food, you cannot, uh,
[00:17:31] you buy something, especially for children for
[00:17:34] education like that. Yeah. Yeah, okay.
[00:17:38] Yeah, in the Philippines, if no money, your children no go
[00:17:42] to school. Because you pay
[00:17:45] by yourself. Education is, uh, you have
[00:17:49] to pay for education, or yeah. Yeah, by parents to
[00:17:52] pay the education for children. Oh.
[00:17:55] Yeah, no problem. How many, how many children you have? We have
[00:17:59] two.
[00:18:01] Two. Okay, small. So that's why you're working here to,
[00:18:04] you know, you can give the education later. Yeah. Boystion.
[00:18:08] Yeah.
[00:18:12] Since the Filipinos work on the ship for six months straight, they also have
[00:18:16] opportunities to relax. They can watch movies, play
[00:18:20] table tennis, even play basketball outdoors.
[00:18:34] I just learned the first
[00:18:37] word. Is it Filipino language? Is it Philippine language?
[00:18:41] Philippine language? It's it's
[00:18:43] the Galo, the Galo. Aaa,
[00:18:47] Tagalog is their common language. Yeah.
[00:18:50] Magandang umaga. Magandang umaga, that means
[00:18:54] good morning. So tomorrow, Keiti, we can greet everyone
[00:18:57] magandang umaga.
[00:19:00] By the way, Erik here said that actually they are
[00:19:04] from the Philippines, all three from different islands. "And they
[00:19:07] speak different dialects, so here they
[00:19:11] use this common language that they know, but
[00:19:14] otherwise, sometimes they don't even understand each other when they start speaking their
[00:19:17] dialects.
[00:19:20] Magandang, and the evening is Magandang Gabi. Magandang
[00:19:24] Gabi. Magandang Gabi. Yeah. Magandang Gabi.
[00:19:27] Magandang Gabi. Maganda ka. Maganda
[00:19:31] ka. If you hear, I say maganda ka, you are
[00:19:34] beautiful. Yeah."
[00:19:37] Always, thank you. Ah, Salamat.
[00:19:41] Salamat. Spasiba.
[00:20:10] And what is the favorite activity of Filipino men on the ship?
[00:20:14] Of course, karaoke.
[00:20:26] These are the kinds of songs here. I'm afraid we don't know them very
[00:20:31] know them. The scary thing is, I already saw before that we know them. Ah,
[00:20:35] you know, yes. Okay.
[00:22:46] bus for two girls. Beautiful.
[00:22:50] Casmari, after five days we leave
[00:22:54] home.
[00:22:57] And we know nothing about the city either.
[00:23:58] Hmm, maybe we can really find an endless harbor for fishing boats, endless
[00:24:00] cranes.
[00:24:08] We reached the first harbor, initially
[00:24:12] from afar. When we were told that there was a marina here, it certainly seemed like some
[00:24:15] nonsense, nothing visible. Well,
[00:24:18] potentially there are maybe three here. 10 or 40, look
[00:24:21] at the yachts. 10
[00:24:25] or even more, one could surely find one.
[00:24:43] You try to do this trick where you walk around the harbor and then you still smile
[00:24:46] at people, "Oh, beautiful day, hurray, everything is so."
[00:24:50] Angry, with angry faces, they already look
[00:24:53] at you like, "Please don't talk to me, please stay
[00:24:56] away. You have suspiciously many things and you look like
[00:25:00] some kind of hiker."
[00:25:03] And then you realize, "Come on, get out of the way, I want to ride past on my
[00:25:19] we won't find a boat." We'll leave the cafe
[00:25:21] then.
[00:25:23] I don't know why I suddenly feel like it's so
[00:25:25] hard.
[00:25:30] It's not easy, but you have to start talking to every
[00:25:33] person. Yes, you have to become immune
[00:25:36] to all those bad looks
[00:25:51] camera. I'm actually a bit afraid of that too,
[00:25:53] yeah.
[00:25:58] See how easy it was in Tallinn,
[00:26:01] we knew the code." I knew my code and asked to go in. Here,
[00:26:05] nobody seems to be around. In the next
[00:26:08] episode, we start losing hope that
[00:26:11] we'll get on anyone's yacht in
[00:26:23] us in their
[00:26:23] activities.
[00:27:28] towards
[00:27:28] men.
[00:27:32] The boat rocks from one side to the other. We are still
[00:27:36] some 740 miles away from Barbados.
[00:27:39] How to move forward when fatigue sets in and
[00:27:43] strength begins to wane? Well, Mart,
[00:27:45] listen,
[00:27:48] a great adventure across the Atlantic, on Tuesday
[00:27:51] evening on Estonian Television, to Barbados,
[00:27:55] to Barbados.