This is the real story of ancient seamanship vs. wearable technology — and why one of them still wins when things go wrong. Why the Sea Still Requires a Lookout Before dashboards, before satellites, before someone decided every problem could…
Simpler times. Welcome to digital delusion in shipping — where AI doesn’t spike your coffee, it spikes your confidence in wrong answers. Now it just means your AI chatbot is confidently explaining that the Panama Canal connects Lisbon to… somewhere.…
Update: this covers the first month of the crisis. For the latest, read Situation Room #14: Nearly Six Months of “Just a Little Longer” and #16: The Combined Crisis Report. Seafarers Stranded in Hormuz: One Month Adrift | TSM This…
Shipping loves the word “smart.” Smart ships. Smart bridges. Smart data. Smart everything. This is maritime technology overreliance at its most obvious — dressing up complexity as intelligence We slap “smart” on things like it’s a personality trait. Like the…
Remember when we begged for internet at sea? Like, really begged. This is the story of trust and connectivity in shipping — and how getting everything we asked for didn’t fix what we thought it would Emails home that took…
Life at Sea in the Merchant Navy There’s something about the sea. It’s salty, a bit unpredictable, and has been there forever, just watching us make the same mistakes. Standing there, watching the waves do their endless thing, it hits…
Sea, Shore, and the Biryani That Connects (and Divides) Us The Sunday Between Us – Seafarer mental health and family life collide every Sunday — the day the distance becomes impossible to ignore. Two Sundays. Same Moment. Different Worlds. Somewhere…
The Most Accurate Calendar at Sea At sea, time is elastic. Days blur. Contracts stretch. But Sundays—and Biryani—never lie. Here’s how the unofficial calendar keeps crews sane. The Sunday Biryani Index 🍛 Time Is a Liar. Biryani Is Not. You…
Maritime Casualty Investigation: A.P.E.M. of a Casualty – Appraisal. Planning. Execution. Monitoring. (Sounds like a Navy SEAL mission, doesn’t it?). The OG, classic four-step approach to Passage Planning, tweaked for Casualty Management. A maritime casualty investigation reveals more than equipment…
The shore based maritime job reality is rarely what it’s advertised as. Ask anyone who’s made the leap from deck to desk. Welcome to the shore based maritime job reality nobody puts in the recruitment brochure. Look, I get it.…
Seafarer mental health at sea is the industry’s most carefully avoided subject. We measure everything aboard a vessel — except the person running it. Here’s a seafarer you probably know. They’ve been at sea for seven months. They smile in…
Let’s play a small game about the human factor in shipping — starting with what modern shipping already has: Now, let’s list what the headlines still say: Notice something? We upgraded the tools. But the outcomes look strangely familiar. The…