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00:00:11We are taken to Preemerhaven, Germany mainly by a cargo ship carrying machinery,
00:00:14the Stena
00:00:15Forteller.
00:00:18To our surprise, we don't wake up at sea, but in Finland. It turns out that
00:00:22the ship also loads cargo here, and only then can we head south.
00:00:26We are not allowed to film the
00:00:43machinery on the outer deck, but Chief Mate
00:00:47Viktor takes us to the lower cargo deck, where we are allowed to take
00:00:50a tour.
00:01:14So it's a big variation of cargos. You can see we have some bones, we have
00:01:18stones,
00:01:19machines.
00:01:27And by the way, there's paper, there's
00:01:30market, and wood is loaded from pallets,
00:01:33these machines, the tracked ones where you
00:01:38have metal tracks. Since the
00:01:41steel is metal also, you have very poor friction with steel on
00:01:45steel. So what we do then is we put, uh, either rubber, or in this
00:01:48case, wood in between that compresses and increases the
00:01:52friction in
00:01:55addition
00:01:57the regular fashion. Viktor said one day he tried to fit
00:02:00all sorts of these machines here, and then he found that he had
00:02:04left 43 tractors out of that equation,
00:02:08and all the work had to be redone and they started recalculating, playing
00:02:12around to see what comes from which port, what
00:02:15gets off first, what gets off later.
00:02:19That's basically his
00:02:20job.
00:02:35Viktor hands us over to the next guide, Senior Mechanic
00:02:38Tänni. After him, we go down several floors from the deck.
00:03:00"the heart of the ship, as they call it. So we
00:03:04are, see, we are first engineer, two second
00:03:08engineers, one electrician
00:03:11and one motorman and one fitter. So we are
00:03:15in total six down there. So as I
00:03:18said, this is the engine control room. We control
00:03:20everything, engines. These are the main engines and these
00:03:24are the auxiliary engines to produce the
00:03:29moment for Hannah to electricity on board." But only like this is zero
00:03:32and zero stops. Only two engines are, yeah, we're only running on two engines now
00:03:36on very low, so not the maximum speed. No,
00:03:40what's the maximum speed? Depends a little bit on weather and
00:03:43everything, but around 20
00:03:45knots.
00:03:49So we can we can see practically
00:03:52everything on the ship. It's mean, it's like, it's
00:03:56like a small community. We're having all the fresh water,
00:03:59electric, sewage, ventilation, everything like a
00:04:03normal town or any community has and we control
00:04:06everything from
00:04:07here.
00:04:13So this is just the engine workshop where
00:04:16we 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
00:04:37noise, you can't even hear your own thoughts,
00:04:40and these engines are not that exciting to look at, because they have much more
00:04:44interesting
00:04:45details in the workspaces.
00:04:51The men here in the engine room didn't want to
00:04:54well, do we? We have just such a black handle, so they brought
00:04:56gear levers from a car, skull-shaped and made." To make
00:05:00this 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
00:05:48that, we will have covered the most important points of the ship.
00:06:23So, K one
00:06:26zero. So we're
00:06:30already
00:06:33changing 8.5, and it
00:06:35turns.
00:06:38I turned the knob and steered the ship. They laughed
00:06:41at it, that it's such a small thing. It was so cool, like
00:06:45you just turn a small knob and you see how this
00:06:49big, big, big ship really
00:06:52reacts to it.
00:06:55Well, but you actually have experience. I overheard your father's call, who
00:06:59said, "Eee, Keiti, what are you talking about? You haven't slept on ships." Actually, you
00:07:03are a tough ship's girl. Yeah, in my childhood, my father was
00:07:06on a fishing boat, working, and then I would go for weeks, to be
00:07:10honest, when the fishing ended in spring, then I
00:07:14would still go with them, and there I remember too, I was
00:07:17so happy when the captain held me like this by the steering wheel, just in
00:07:21case I didn't drive completely wrong, but but I remember those
00:07:24moments when I was so proud, "Yes, I'm driving myself!"
00:07:41So the little rascals are here now. At sea.
00:07:44I can't imagine, everyone stayed standing and they will reach
00:07:48the port quickly, maybe. If there's a strong wind pushing fast,
00:07:52but
00:07:55my brother has a really good, safe feeling being in the big sky right now.
00:08:54I have here, wow, karaoke, I now, if I could
00:08:58find out how this works, I would scare
00:09:02these sailors a little here. You like rock too,
00:09:05I don't like it at all, but I think if you've been here for like the fourth day already,
00:09:09then you'll start to like any activity there is. Not
00:09:12sitting, well look at this, everything is tied
00:09:16down with straps, ship stuff,
00:09:19so if it's wavy, you wouldn't lose
00:09:22expensive equipment. Here are non-slip
00:09:26rubbers and additionally, straps and ropes.
00:09:47"My ear is resting, so good.
00:10:09First time in my life I'm driving through such a long
00:10:13bridge. This bridge connects
00:10:17Sweden and Denmark, Malmö and
00:10:19Copenhagen.
00:10:30Here 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
00:11:03me too, like such cool corners, and
00:11:07these cars and chimneys and tractors and all
00:11:11of it
00:11:11is so good.
00:11:21So why are you going to Portugal? Exactly, aha?" "
00:11:25We're um, just trying to get to Porto, actually.
00:11:29Aha, Porto, yeah. So you don't know what next
00:11:32boat? No. Oh my God, that's
00:11:35tricky, is it? I don't know, we don't know
00:11:39either, we're just going to do it. Oh man, that's a good one. I
00:11:42thought you have everything planned all the way. No, no, no, it's just
00:11:45intriguing. Oh man, that's perfect. And it's possible. We'll
00:11:49see, we'll see. But, but all these, uh, you have all
00:11:53these securities and everything. How you passed that?
00:11:56Yeah, basically, yeah, we are, we have
00:12:00insurance, but that's all. And we have life jackets. Yeah, we
00:12:03have life jackets, but you haven't, you haven't contacted the company, so you
00:12:07just asked the captain or? Yeah, we're going to try to get on
00:12:11on yacht boats, sailboats, okay? Yeah, mostly. But
00:12:15if we can't find any sailboats, then we're going to find these captains and
00:12:18ask, "Can you take us?" It doesn't matter what? Wish.
00:12:22No, okay. Just on on
00:12:42the 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
00:12:45eat today. Oh, okay, so that's why it's not so much
00:12:48cooking now. Leftover
00:12:52day, basically.
00:12:55So so you are the one who makes the
00:12:58menus? Yeah, everything. So even I
00:13:01buy everything and yes, I'm in charge
00:13:05of everything inside the boat, you know. For example,
00:13:09toilet paper, soap, laundry
00:13:12powder, everything. Buy fixed. So you buy it every week that
00:13:16applies, or a month or
00:13:18actually
00:13:20when we are ashore. You know, this trip takes nine days around
00:13:24from all
00:13:26so actually I buy every nine days. Okay.
00:13:30So when I'm in Turkey, I buy fresh
00:13:33milk and like that. And now in Germany, I buy
00:13:36fish and meat. And everything is cheaper in
00:13:39Germany. Oh, everything has to be planned out.
00:13:43Yeah, of course. So you, you had
00:13:45to, you had to write the menu and then you had to know
00:13:49how much you need for and how many people on
00:13:52board. So this is the herring. This is a
00:13:55salmon. It's been in the fridge
00:13:58for two days or 48
00:14:01hours. You have seen this before,
00:14:05yes.
00:14:10So and now you have to try. You
00:14:13see slice
00:14:16if you want to try. There are no bones left. Now no, they're
00:14:20gone. And you have to slice very
00:14:23thin. Like
00:14:26this. How long have you been a
00:14:29cook? Oh my God.
00:14:32I've been, I've been working in restaurants for over
00:14:3630 years.
00:14:39So then I have my own restaurant for 20 years.
00:14:41So you still had a restaurant? No, no, I
00:14:45had until I started here working on ships. But why did
00:14:48you come working on ships? Because it didn't work out
00:14:52so good, the business. Okay? Because I have a small
00:14:56cafe in Gothenburg and it didn't work out so good, so that's why
00:15:00I closed that and then I stopped working. And
00:15:03because it's easy to, for
00:15:06example, work as a chef in in a city is very stressed
00:15:09and you work weekends and everything, so the boat is perfect. You work four weeks
00:15:13and then you're free four weeks, and that's
00:15:16suits. Okay. Basically, work half a year, yeah, six
00:15:19months, yeah. Everybody does,
00:15:23except the Filipinos. They work more and they work six
00:15:40And you like working on the ship? You know, I can
00:15:43feel the
00:15:46yeah, it's okay. Today it's very calm. It could
00:15:49be worse, yeah. But then you change the menu, of
00:15:53course, if it's too bumpy. You can't serve
00:15:56everything. Sometimes you, you had to
00:15:58stand like this, so then you change the menu for something
00:16:02easier, so and everybody understands that.
00:16:06And most of the people who were bumping, they're not so hungry,
00:16:09so it works out very
00:16:12good.
00:16:50While the ship's management consists of Swedes, the manual labor is mostly done by
00:16:54Filipinos.
00:16:57For several days, the very friendly and always smiling Männi has been bringing us food.
00:17:01But how long are you here? Six months
00:17:04and then you can go home for six months. Two months on,
00:17:08two months home, and then again six months. Yeah, yeah, that's my
00:17:11life. But a lot of
00:17:14Filipinos uh work on the
00:17:17ship all for the same reason. Yeah, yeah, the same reason. Yeah.
00:17:21Better salaries, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if I work
00:17:24in very small, only for the, yeah, only
00:17:27for the food, you cannot, uh,
00:17:31you buy something, especially for children for
00:17:34education like that. Yeah. Yeah, okay.
00:17:38Yeah, in the Philippines, if no money, your children no go
00:17:42to school. Because you pay
00:17:45by yourself. Education is, uh, you have
00:17:49to pay for education, or yeah. Yeah, by parents to
00:17:52pay the education for children. Oh.
00:17:55Yeah, no problem. How many, how many children you have? We have
00:17:59two.
00:18:01Two. Okay, small. So that's why you're working here to,
00:18:04you know, you can give the education later. Yeah. Boystion.
00:18:08Yeah.
00:18:12Since the Filipinos work on the ship for six months straight, they also have
00:18:16opportunities to relax. They can watch movies, play
00:18:20table tennis, even play basketball outdoors.
00:18:34I just learned the first
00:18:37word. Is it Filipino language? Is it Philippine language?
00:18:41Philippine language? It's it's
00:18:43the Galo, the Galo. Aaa,
00:18:47Tagalog is their common language. Yeah.
00:18:50Magandang umaga. Magandang umaga, that means
00:18:54good morning. So tomorrow, Keiti, we can greet everyone
00:18:57magandang umaga.
00:19:00By the way, Erik here said that actually they are
00:19:04from the Philippines, all three from different islands. "And they
00:19:07speak different dialects, so here they
00:19:11use this common language that they know, but
00:19:14otherwise, sometimes they don't even understand each other when they start speaking their
00:19:17dialects.
00:19:20Magandang, and the evening is Magandang Gabi. Magandang
00:19:24Gabi. Magandang Gabi. Yeah. Magandang Gabi.
00:19:27Magandang Gabi. Maganda ka. Maganda
00:19:31ka. If you hear, I say maganda ka, you are
00:19:34beautiful. Yeah."
00:19:37Always, thank you. Ah, Salamat.
00:19:41Salamat. Spasiba.
00:20:10And what is the favorite activity of Filipino men on the ship?
00:20:14Of course, karaoke.
00:20:26These are the kinds of songs here. I'm afraid we don't know them very
00:20:31know them. The scary thing is, I already saw before that we know them. Ah,
00:20:35you know, yes. Okay.
00:22:46bus for two girls. Beautiful.
00:22:50Casmari, after five days we leave
00:22:54home.
00:22:57And we know nothing about the city either.
00:23:58Hmm, maybe we can really find an endless harbor for fishing boats, endless
00:24:00cranes.
00:24:08We reached the first harbor, initially
00:24:12from afar. When we were told that there was a marina here, it certainly seemed like some
00:24:15nonsense, nothing visible. Well,
00:24:18potentially there are maybe three here. 10 or 40, look
00:24:21at the yachts. 10
00:24:25or even more, one could surely find one.
00:24:43You try to do this trick where you walk around the harbor and then you still smile
00:24:46at people, "Oh, beautiful day, hurray, everything is so."
00:24:50Angry, with angry faces, they already look
00:24:53at you like, "Please don't talk to me, please stay
00:24:56away. You have suspiciously many things and you look like
00:25:00some kind of hiker."
00:25:03And then you realize, "Come on, get out of the way, I want to ride past on my
00:25:19we won't find a boat." We'll leave the cafe
00:25:21then.
00:25:23I don't know why I suddenly feel like it's so
00:25:25hard.
00:25:30It's not easy, but you have to start talking to every
00:25:33person. Yes, you have to become immune
00:25:36to all those bad looks
00:25:51camera. I'm actually a bit afraid of that too,
00:25:53yeah.
00:25:58See how easy it was in Tallinn,
00:26:01we knew the code." I knew my code and asked to go in. Here,
00:26:05nobody seems to be around. In the next
00:26:08episode, we start losing hope that
00:26:11we'll get on anyone's yacht in
00:26:23us in their
00:26:23activities.
00:27:28towards
00:27:28men.
00:27:32The boat rocks from one side to the other. We are still
00:27:36some 740 miles away from Barbados.
00:27:39How to move forward when fatigue sets in and
00:27:43strength begins to wane? Well, Mart,
00:27:45listen,
00:27:48a great adventure across the Atlantic, on Tuesday
00:27:51evening on Estonian Television, to Barbados,
00:27:55to Barbados.