During a ‘Wellness at Sea’ conference in March last year, held by the British Sailor’s Society, I was struck by the powerful presentations on the significance of the impact of mental health matters on shipboard […]
A training film aims to prevent shore staff phoning ships’ masters in the middle of the night on relatively trivial matters. Helen Sampson of the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC), at Cardiff University, has developed the […]
A study by the Seafarer International Research Centre (SIRC) has observed an uptick in crew fatalities since 2009, as well as an increased number of suicides in certain quarters. Research involved collecting data from seven […]
Four British crew members trapped on the migrant rescue ship Sea Watch-3 have called on the UK’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt to pressure the Italian government to end the deadlock, which has kept the ship’s […]
I have sailed on the high seas for 37 years, of which the past 26 I have worked as a chief engineer officer on a wide variety of ships, from containers, crude oil tankers to […]
KVH Videotel has introduced a training package, Seafarers Mental Health and Wellbeing, which will be free of charge throughout the shipping industry “due to the critical importance of the topic”. The programme was produced in […]
The Mission to Seafarers has found that seafarers are becoming less happy and has urged international shipping to take the issue more seriously. Seafarer happiness, it said, is a success indicator and key factor in […]
Seafarers have reported a reduction in length of tours of duty and average hours worked in ports and at sea in a report published by the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC). SIRC harvested the input […]
Over the past 18 months, mental health has been the topic du jour. Although talking about it raises awareness and reduces stigma, at what point are we going to start doing something? Instead of reacting […]
A number of major maritime companies and organisations have launched crew wellbeing initiatives to coincide with the International Maritime Organization’s Day of the Seafarer on 25 June. The IMO noted “strong momentum” in the industry […]
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