{"id":7508,"date":"2006-01-29T06:58:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T23:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/diary-of-a-sea-captain\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T04:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T21:09:22","slug":"diary-of-a-sea-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/diary-of-a-sea-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of a sea captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe art of not making waves on a luxury cruise linerBy the time this is published I&#8217;ll be sailing the Swan Hellenic cruise ship Minerva II to San Francisco. Over the next three months we&#8217;ll sail south through the Panama canal and spend a little time in the Caribbean before heading to the Med for the spring.I went to sea because I was interested in ship handling and navigation. But like any industry, there&#8217;s now so much paperwork to complete that it&#8217;s sometimes easy to forget why I came into this job in the first place. I could sit in front of my computer reading emails all day, but as captain and master I can choose to do as much ship handling as I want and I generally do all the arrivals. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2006\/jan\/28\/careers.work\" target=\"_blank\">Diary of a sea captain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The art of not making waves on a luxury cruise linerBy the time this 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