Peace be upon you, Today is 16th Ramadan, We are in China ...
Discharging is going on & Chief Officer is busy with Cargo work.
It's time for Sehr (Meal before keeping Fast), I just got up and am going to Mess Room ...
This is the Cargo Control Room ..
Oh... Moustaches Gone... What happened to them ...
Lloyd [ACO] ... you've met him before.. Lloyd: Hi
We're discharging Crude Oil here..
And this voice that you're hearing in Chinese, This is probably the loading Master..
Anyway the bottom line is that work doesn't stop on ship ... We have to adjust our routine accordingly ...
& Rest hours too ...
Wa-alikumussalam, Have the other two guys finished their meal already??
Chief Officer Farrukh... Taking his meal before Fasting ..
He's doing his Cargo work and Sehr ... all together...
A ship is always running and so are we ...
CO: Show them the Clock Sir..
Farrukh has told me to show clock to you guys,,, it's quarter to 3 O'Clock in the morning ...
Let's have some scrambled Egg ..
MSM: Good Morning
Good Morning Edwin, How are you? MSM EDWIN, He's Making Sehr For Us ...
Those are some awesome parathaas..
This is our Ramadan routine, ,,,,
We don't compromise on Job, we adjust our routines instead ..
We try to keep our Sehr food in Pakistani style... As close to home (in terms of food) as possible ..
We have Paratha in the morning..
Scrambled eggs
Saalan (curry), Juice and yogurt etc...
What else would you like to eat in the morning ...
But we do miss our homes.. That Aura at home is completely different... All markets are open so early in the morning...
Your Kids are there with You, Mother is there with you, wife is there with you ...
Here we try to gather for Sehr and Iftaar .. but that's not always possible due to work routines...
Talking of food, The Lassi has finished ... I liked that in the morning but it's no more...
Oh Thank you ... Thanks a lot ...
A nice and hot cup of tea...
There is very less time at hand (To Start Fasting) I have to go to my room and get a puff of cig too ...
The bad side of being a smoker, You have 5 minutes to start Fast and all you wish is a few puffs with tea...
So I will have a cup of tea, Offer Salat (Namaz) and Sleep ...
duty officer will wake me up upon Cargo completion ..
There's a lot of paperwork that needs to be done ...
And here's my room ...
And I have maintained a very Romantic Atmosphere (lights) in my room.... :)
That's the life of Ship, A ship never stops and so do the work on board.. Doesn't matter if it's Eid, Saturday, Sunday or Christmas ...
If something needs to be done then it will be done... Back home Saturday and Sunday's are Off...
Not here if some work is going on ..
We can't exactly take full days off here,.. We actually modify our routines to fit our personnel needs ..
You must be thinking that why am I smoking ...
It's actually a bad habit that needs to be shed ..
Just In Time ...
Now i will tell you how do we find out Qibla Direction for offering Salat ..
Remember the software I told you guys about... In the video about moon sighting ... We use the same here .. Navlight 32 ..
It tells me that Qibla is 282 Degrees....
now we need to find out where is 282 degrees relative to ship's head ...
we face in same direction for offering Salat ..
To find out this relative direction we need to go to bridge ...
As there's Gyro Compass there and its easy to find out such things from there ..
and we can accurately find out the direction that we need to face to..
Gyro compass tells that our ship's heading is 329 Degrees, Qibla is 280 Degrees
That mean Qibla is somewhere in this direction ..
This is our deck crew engaged in various activities during discharging ..
The Discharging Operation is in Progress.
The crew could have gone on shore leave had it not been for this Pandemic ..
I think i should go now and offer Salat, as short after the cargo discharging will finish too ... Lots of things to do ..
I have to get up again in 2/3 hours for paperwork, so it's bette to offer Salat and sleep now...
I have performed Wazoo (abolition), let's offer Salat and Sleep Then ..
I am going to sleep now guys, but i will show you guys our full day routine...
You guys request to see different aspects of our life, see the full day routine now...
Yeah .. Lloyd .. Wake me up when the Cargo discharging is completed ...
Yeah .. Okay .. Thank you ..
Hello ... Cargo completed.... Okay... Thank You...
The Cargo has been completed.. Good Morning .. Assalamoalikum ...
2 and a half hours... okay okay... Let me know when the Agent comes for Paperwork.
Completion of Discharging, We're doing all the paperwork now..
Now a days we need to wear all of this when we meet someone from outside the ship...
because ... it is for the safety of our crew...
No one knows what kind of germs that guy is carrying ...
I even carry my own pens... ( so that i don't touch other people's belongings unnecessarily)
[[ Chatter On Walkie Talkie ]]
Pilot on board
Duty Officer : Capt. can we make fast the tugs ..?
Yes my dear, you can do so ..
Duty Off: Sir I haven't tested engine yet, once Pilot comes on bridge i will try out the Main engine ..
Yes, After the tugs are fast, Gangway is up, only then we will do that (Try Out Main engine)
Got it Sir!
Documentation has been completed ..
Agency papers have been done ..
Alhamdulillah the discharging has been completed too ...
Now it's time to move to the next port.
[.. Indistinct chatter On Bridge..]
[[.... Bye Mr. Pilot..]]
Capt: 165 AB: 165 Capt
AB: 165 Now sir
This guys has anchored right at the Pilot Point
There is one more ship close to it...
Some of them are really Crazy ..
We have departed From Dalian Port,
Until we were there, the Sehr and iftaar timings were almost constant..
Now as the vessel is moving, the latitude and longitude are continuously changing by every minute ..
So the timing of Sehr and iftaar will change too ..
today is 11th May, 2nd officer has given me estimated position of 1830 hrs LT,
now i will input this position in my software to find out the time of sunset ..
Similarly I have also calculated the estimated ship's position for tomorrow morning and evening ..
and similarly i will also calculate the Sher and iftaar timings of tomorrow..
This is one thing that i need to do daily, as vessel's position is changing continuously ...
Our Salat timings are continuously changing as well ..
today we will break fast (iftaar) at 1852 .. it's a difference of One minute ..
Salat ul Ishaa is also a minute earlier today ..
I can tell 2nd officer to do this too ... but I think it's an easy sawaab that I can get ...
So why not to do it myself...
Roza is going well and i can smell some nice aroma coming from AC blower ...
.. The AC blower also brings aroma from Galley ...
it smells as if Chief cook has cooked something nice today ...
I think he has made some Samosas ...
Farrukh has come to call me ... he is saying "Sir jee quickly come, it's time to break fast"
bottom line is this boys that work doesn't stop on ship ... (as many of you think) ...
Grass always looks greener on the other side.
Are you boys ready for iftar??? Please please hava seat .. it's almost time ...
So today Chief cook has made some Qorma, daal, chana chaat ....
See... I thought that he has made some Samosas... I could smell that in my room ...
Oh my dea EDWIN... Thank you very much for the half cup of tea ... Thank you ...
From where did we get this sweet Potato...
From singapore sir (Mess-man)
From Singapore ... What's wrong with sweet Potatoes of singapore ... [[Chuckles]]
Saeed Alam Khan... How Many roza have been completed today ..
17 have been completed .. oh nice .. Ma Sha Allah ..
Today's video was completely unscripted .. I wanted to show your our Routine...
I wanted to show how we actually spend Ramadan on ships ...
How do we adjust our routine ... today we completed our discharging at Dalian ... we departed from there ...
After having this cup of tea, I will get some rest today ...
It's almost 7:30 in the evening, rest we will see tomorrow ...
I have to do a couple of small things and after that I will call it a day ...
So today i showed you guys my full routine from morning till evening
if you like this video then please do share and subscribe to my channel ...
And give me more ideas for future videos ...
Rest there are obviously some restrictions, there is some information that i cannot share ...
But i will do whatever i can outside those restrictions ..
Take very good care of yourself, with tonnes of love to all of you ..
This is orange shots, I am Zahid... Bye ..