Sidenote for you Martin, Any buzz around the OETC and its effect on Canadian Seafarers? I'd love to be there to discuss it with those representing the shipping companies, to see their reaction to the announcement, and what it means to their HR departments. Does it help them, with more seafarers retu...

Well Martin, I would Imagine that "live tweeting" the Mari-Tech Conference may not be the thrill a minute high pace event one would expect, but I'm sure you would be able to bring it to life as you have done with this board and your website. I'd follow your tweets, as I'm sure there is som...

I work overseas on a DSV as second engineer, I will see my take home pay get cut in half by the phase out of the OETC. There are five Canadians within this company alone. So yes, Seafarers will be affected, as well as those in the mining industry, engineering firms, amongst others. The Petition shou...

I'm looking for anything from an Engineers point of view, just to get a sense of the reaction and response from the engineroom and crew, or, any word on if they all survived. The news is focused of course on the Captain and passengers, but I, for one engineer, am more interested in the story from be...

Not a good day for shipping..

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Thoughts go out to family of crew.

Hi Matthias, What everybody over here in St. John's says is Reed's, but first or second editions. I can't track them down and nobody can verify it though. I've just been going by all the answer banks floating around, and about thirty books from the library. I take it your studying for it? I'm sittin...

A Question for you guys, Which exam did you find the toughest and why? I've just finished 1st Applied, found it not too bad, and now working on Electro. I don't know why, since it's not new material, but it just isn't sinking in. Bring on Thermo I say. How did you work through the mental blocks? Not...

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