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Re: FW: Avoiding collision.
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2003 Oct 8, 17:28 -0700
From: Doug Royer
Date: 2003 Oct 8, 17:28 -0700
Jan,it's rather funny that you envy me my job because more than once I envyed people like your self their jobs or at least their lives. For everything there is a cost.The cost to me for living this lifestyle is never being in one place very long.I was at sea almost constantly for 19 years.I made no real long lasting friends other than shipmates and we go our seperate ways not seeing each other for years or ever.I made lots of money and experianced many exotic things.But what good is lots of money when you can't share it with someone close to you and what good are memories of old when one may get Altheimers and forget them all? No Jan,in reality,it is you and people like you who lived semi-normal lives on terra-firma who I envy. -----Original Message----- From: Jan Kalivoda [mailto:jan.kalivoda@FF.CUNI.CZ] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 06:51 To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM Subject: Re: FW: Avoiding collision. I believe Doug every word and I like the pitch of the professional self-confidence, as I envy him his job. But to the Jared's description I would add my own experience. At the unnamed sea on board ship of the unnamed company, I penetrated to the bridge in early morning hours. After some friendly discussion with the mate, I was allowed to steer manually the ferry boat with some 1000 passengers and 300 cars under the deck for ten minutes. Not in confined and frequented waters, I must say. I thank that mate for it now and here. I readily admit that my and Doug's statements are not contradictory. Jan Kalivoda
