Assalamualaikum, and welcome back to Orange Shots.
I've told you in a past video about how people don't get sick onboard.
You all ask why,
so I thought why not tell you all about it in full detail?
You see, when we talk a bout someone getting sick,
we're not talking about
the medical conditions they already have.
For instance, God forbid, if someone has a heart condition,
although that's usually rare,
the medical tests are up to par.
But if someone has a problem that starts to aggravate, that's a separate story.
Say someone has a kidney stone or something
that had developed while they were back home,
we are not referring to that.
We're talking about the diseases
that spread via bacteria or viruses.
I've also told you how no one gets a cold while on a ship,
unless someone sick joins them onboard.
Why does this happen? How is this possible?
All this starts on a personal level.
When it comes to our vessel, we carry out cabin inspections every week.
We do cleanliness checks.
We also have separate laundries.
Everyone gets their own detergent.
What's more, the machines work great. They're automatic.
They (the machines) do all the washing and drying themselves.
Every crewmember gets a washing soap every month.
All toilets on the ship have handwashes,
and there are hand sanitizers in every common area.
You get gloves, masks, basically everything.
Ultimately, you get all the protection you need
from viruses and bacteria for free.
Moving on from the personal level, next come cooking and edibles.
If we talk about the food served onboard,
all food is stored at a carefully regulated temperature.
That way, it doesn't go bad.
It's kept at an optimum temperature,
I only learned about this while working here --
about how all food has an "optimum" temperature.
Before this, I knew only two things:
what should be in a fridge and what should be in a freezer.
But here, we have a meat room, a fish room, a vegetable room
every type of food is stored at a different designated temperature.
This keeps bacteria from forming in the food.
Now, when it comes to cooking,
our chief cook is properly trained,
he knows that food is the second possible source of contamination and sickness.
It starts from the galley.
He has to take care to keep it clean, clean out the stores now and then.
Aside from that, even when cutting boards are concerned,
where the chief cook cuts all the vegetables and meats,
all cutting boards are color-coded.
There's a separate cutting board for fish and a separate one for chicken,
then there's one for beef, and one for mutton.
Next, you're not allowed to handle raw meat without gloves on.
So, the second hygiene concern point is also well taken care of.
Now, the third possible contributor to sickness is our atmosphere.
Our water is well controlled on the ship,
it's not just properly dosed with chlorine and other necessary chemicals,
but it's also thoroughly tested
to ensure our drinking water is completely clean.
Next: room atmosphere.
all of a ship's accommodation units are air-conditioned.
The air conditioning's temperature is kept optimal: not too cold, not too warm.
Both extremes can lead to sickness.
The next contributor is human waste.
In other words, human refuse or excrement.
Basically, whatever is found in a toilet.
I've made a separate video about this as well,
I also made one about cooking.
I'll link all those videos here at the end so you can watch them.
They have more detailed information.
So, human waste is handled differently, it's kept contained
to keep any sort of bacteria from escaping and spreading
sickness all around.
The next contributor is garbage.
You can watch a separate video I made about that, too, when you reach the end.
The garbage generated on a ship is segregated.
It's kept in separate storage, and this process is repeated daily.
Garbage never lies around for days on end in our rooms or wherever we eat.
This is absolutely not allowed.
Besides that, if our food waste can't be dumped in the sea,
we have a designated fridge for our garbage, too.
Large room-sized refrigerators just for garbage.
This also keeps bacteria and viruses from forming. Viruses rarely form, though.
If they do, they're stuck there in the cold.
Next, the air around us, notice it?
It's completely clean, no pollution whatsoever.
It's the polluted air from factories and whatnot that causes sickness.
We don't have any of that.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: I've never seen bluer skies anywhere else
than here on ship.
I mean I've seen it on planes too,
but you never see skies this blue on land.
Such a beautiful, clean atmosphere is hard to come by on land.
This problem solves itself. There's no pollution here.
Second, the marine environment, while it is corrosive and bad for metal,
it's great for humans.
Bacteria and viruses never survive in this type of air.
So, anyone who gets onboard sick --
I've been sick a couple times, climbing onboard from Karachi --
it takes them 3-4 days to heal and they don't get sick anymore.
No one gets sick, unless,
any outsider who's sick gets onboard and makes everyone else sick.
That's when everyone takes turns getting sick. But again, that's rare.
In my whole 22-year sea career (Alhamdulilah),
Based on my estimation, I've only ever been sick 2-3 times.
Otherwise, I've remained perfectly fine.
If you want, take America for example,
when the white colonizers settled there, they had plenty of diseases,
the natives there at the time weren't acquainted with such diseases.
They didn't domesticate animals or keep them close by.
They weren't too fond of keeping animals as pets.
That meant they weren't immune to diseases.
But the diseases the colonizers brought with them spread, killing many natives.
So, we're sort of like those Native Americans.
We're not used to getting sick, but we're still vulnerable to sickness.
Otherwise, we're fine.
I've told you before, we cannot keep animals on the ship.
We're simply not allowed.
We can't keep or grow plants either.
It's the same reason, no animals or plants means no carriers for disease.
Almost non-existent chances of infection, no infections mean good health.
However, there are cattle carrier ships but they have their own precautions.
If I told you that you are at your healthiest on a ship, I wouldn't be wrong.
We have fixed routines onboard.
We have to follow these routines to a tee.
We cannot choose our timing arbitrarily.
We eat three times a day at fixed times to stay healthy.
So, these are some of the reasons why we rarely get sick onboard,
and because we don't really get sick, we don't need doctors onboard with us.
If you want to know how we handle human excrement, you'll find that video here.
If you want to know how garbage is stored on a ship, I've linked that video here.
Until my next video, take care of yourselves.
Always remember me in your prayers.
With tons of love to my Orange Shots family,
and to-be Orange Shots family,
This is me Zahid Nisar,
you're watching Orange Shots.
And until my next video,
ALLAH Hafiz!