Calculating ship squat for a given condition can give us advantages. You can gain much more if you consider the effects of squat in planning your voyage, calculating cargo to load. A good practice of navigation skills through experience and constant learning will improve your knowledge and skill. Let’s try to summarize some of those tips that you can later apply onboard your ship.
Archive for the ‘General Interest Articles’ Category
How to plan your City Tour
The first that will make an impression to you about a place are its people. I’ve travelled around the world, most of the time and Filipino hospitality is still the best. A place can be so wonderful whenever you see people that are wholeheartedly welcoming you in their place.
Voice from across the deep blue sea
Far across the deep blue sea
Your smile lighted my way
Your watchful eyes guided me
To where I supposed to sail
The beautiful city of Puerto Princesa
Having a vacation after a tiring contract on-board the ship is relaxing. When you’re thinking of vacation, I suggest Puerto Princesa as one of your destination. Few of us may know that Puerto Princesa’s name originated from Princess Eulalia of Spain, born in 1864 to Queen Isabel II. When the princess died, the Queen changed the name to Puerto de la Princesa. Later, the name was lessened to Puerto Princesa which is widely known today.
USCG, its goal… Its purpose…
The USCG (United States Coastguard) is one of the five armed service of the US. How does it connect to the maritime industry? What are there purpose and mission? Born Ready! That’s what it takes to be a USCG. It takes much courage being a guardian.
What’s new at Pinoy Maritime?
As you can see, there are several changes on the site. We have come up with a theme design that would give a much better look for it. Some of the old buttons and tabs were removed but many new were added.
Alcoholism and its detrimental effect to you
After a party or a typical house dinner you start cleaning the bottles of wine, liquor, and beer. Did you count how much you and your friends consumed? Let’s say you have a little boy or little girl who idolizes you. Would you indulge yourself to alcohol in front of them? Before a night duty or shifting of watches, would you drink alcohol and later jeopardize your job and the people around you? When is it time to say “enough is enough” or “I have to stop”?
What to look for in finding a Good Job
Finding a Good Job is a little bit hard isn’t it? It takes a lot of your time and mental ability to decide, answer questions, and figure out whether or not you’re going to change company for a better salary and promotion. If you write in google.com about finding a job. It will land you to a lot of sites that would entice you to apply or would give you advice on how to find a good job. What could be the result of not having a good job?
Feature your Article

Writing is all about expressing yourself. Everybody has talent and I’m sure that writing is one of those. You don’t have to be a great writer to publish your article on-line. You just need to love what you’re writing. If you love what you write and you are eager to share it to everybody, it will be a breeze for you.
The Deadly Life of Stowaways
Stowaways are part of the normal life of seafarers. We always find ways to prevent stowaways from coming oboard our ship. A lot of reports were made wherein stowaways were thrown overboard by the crew or captain of the ship, and left to die at sea. A lot of reasons arise whenever we talk about stowaways. It usually relates to poverty and hunger that forces them to migrate illegally. Stowaways transport to different countries on different “stowaway cargo carrier”, if you’d like to call it that way. They would go onboard General Cargo Ship, Container Ship, Tanker Ship, and all other kinds of ship that you can think of. It can either result to a successful migration or they may end up being caught onboard the ship. The worst part of it is when they are thrown overboard.
Every person wants to know his own history. Where he came from, the family that he belongs to, and the people that surrounds him. The same thing with a country’s history, everybody in almost all nations wants to know where they came from and what influenced their culture. In the case of the Filipinos, our history was hidden from us. From the time that the Spanish “Conquistadors” ruled the country for a hundred years, the history became a myth. A talk of the town, with no evidence to prove its existence.
Sharing some Blog Maritime Community Love
Recent visitors from MyBlogLog Maritime Community interests me a lot. I encourage you to join the Pinoy Maritime community, meet friends with common interest, and be featured here at Pinoy Maritime. I learn from their articles and I also subscribe to there RSS feeds to show them my appreciation. If the topics they discuss interest me I often comment on it to let them know my opinion. This time, I want to give back my appreciation by featuring their topic here at Pinoy Maritime. If you want to be link back here, share some love by mentioning us in your post and link us to your site.
Reasons behind the issue in Spratly Islands
The Spratly Islands which consists of more than 100 reefs, islets and islands, occupies less than five square kilometers, and spread over more than 400,000 square kilometers of sea, located between the Philippines and Vietnam, in the area of the South China Sea.
Did you know that plenty of unsecured sites may cause problem to your computer while browsing the internet? Lets say that your checking out one of your favorite blogs, but the theme looks disorientated. A typical browser called the Internet Explorer may cause it.
A Beautiful Government Website
Stumbling into this very nice website “Bulacan“, which to my surprise was a government website. A neatly created, easy to load, and will interest the reader at a first glance.
Globally Recognized Avatar or most widely known as Gravatar. It is an avatar image that that follows you from weblog to weblog. Whenever you post on a forum, or write a comment, gravatar clings to your post. It gives identity to your posts.
Social Bookmarking
We will talk about Blog Directories and Social Bookmarking today. Since the Blogosphere is so vast, and the information dissemination through blogs are everywhere on the net, the truth is that it’s a little bit hard to find an audience especially if your blog is new. In this case Blog Directories and Social Bookmarkings comes in the scene. Most bloggers know that they need to attract more readers and visitors to their blog, and through this blog directories and social bookmarkings they would most likely hit the spot. Let me show you a picture of some of the most popular social bookmarks.
RSS Feeds
Why choose RSS Feeds? If you ask me, its simple to answer. Everybody is doing it. Its not that complicated to understand rss feeds. According to Wikipedia; RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. It contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays. Are you getting confuse now?
New Seven Wonders of the World
While I was surfing the net i found this website about the New Seven Wonders of the World. They are currently voting and nominating as well. Guess what I’ve found out? The Philippines has three nominations. Among those nominated are:
A Smile Goes a Nautical Mile
A very simple word with a very profound meaning. It simply says that a simple smile can mean a lot to each and every person on board the ship. Let’s make an example out of it.










