At 8:30, I made videos with gopro and camera to synchronize the dates. Before that, I hade changed the gopro date setting according to the difference I had seen yesterday.
Interesting for me was, that when I connected to gopro to the PC, the time label was 1:30 and when I transferred it to the PC, the time label was 9:30. (1:30 was the time, I had set on the gopro to balance that annoying difference, so the time set and the time to be seen at the gopro are the same, the miracle for me is, how and why it changes by transferring it to the PC)
Sony photos have the same time label at the camera and the PC, only it is 7:30 instead of 8:30.
And Sony videos taken at 8:30 are also shown with 7:30 at the camera and 9:30 at the PC.
I wonder if I find a way to fix this or only a way to handle it.
Then I wanted to check emails.
But the black keyboard that had been on the desk and I had used for writing the last days, was not here and the white keyboard in the drawer under the desk didn’t work. I had to bother the captain and after checking the problem, he called the chef engineer who came with the second engineer. They looked for another keyboard and installed it, but because of manipulating the PC, some cables had been loosened and the chief engineer restarted the PC and went off. But then there was no internet connection and I wanted to give up, but the captain also restarted the PC and said anyway I can write now, and it will be sent. I only found one email of Marvin with one line and no need to answer, so those 40min were not that useful invested.
On my PC, I found 2 videos from Marvdasht, one shorter, one longer and I compared them, finding that the older one contained something that was lost in the younger one. I guess that was also caused by the usage of those two different apps for editing. But now every video from this trip is done, only in the end of the ship passage, I want to unite the clips of different day to a longer one.
In the evening, I tried to fix or handle the problem with time and date of PC, gopro, camera video and photo. After recording and setting and again recording and setting again, I know that photos on the camera are just related to time/date settings whereas video is sensitive to the region settings. When I use the wrong region (one hour ahead) I get the right time. At least with the current PC settings. Here, I must use the region one hour behind to get the right time. I don’t know what will or would be, when the PC is connected to the internet and gets the time-settings from there, I will try to avoid that. Gopro was easy, if the time label on the PC is wrong 7h, I just have to set the gopro time 7h wrong in the other direction.
Back to my yesterday theories about ((not) greeting) officers
Today, I was the first to be there and each officer greeted when coming, but only very few sitting people greeted back. Regarding eating habits, I can say that some of them compared to mine are in another way strange or even rude:
One of them tries all fruits by hand to choose the one he wants, another one did the same with bread rolls, and a third picks out what he likes most from the mixed salad. I mentioned the veggie-hater yesterday, so only the captain remains, he has good habits and good manners. You best could see that at dinner:
We got a plain but not too dry cake as a dessert and he was the only one to eat it like it was. Five other adults indulged themselves with cream and chocolate syrup in different technics, one even organized a new Nutella from the kitchen giving the cake a thick isolation against potentially dangerous environmental factors, two hid it under a cloud of whipped cream and stabilized the structure with chocolate armour, the last one was convinced by a two component strategy, so he put the cream on a second plate, the syrup came direct on the cake and with a knife he put cream on demand to each bite. I had no special plan, only the goal that the cake should be well soaked in a cream-chocolate combination where one time this and one time that may predominate.
The captain had finished first, his plate was clean, his mouth, too. (You know that I potentially could achieve comparable plate-cleanliness but there was no milk available…)
If I were head of a cargo ship company, I would know how to select my captains. Just let them have a three-course lunch and dinner a few times with hidden camera.
You will find your man! Disciplined, superior, considerate, cooperative – whatever you need!
(Not sure if that would work with women or in a mixed group, but at least cargo ship captain still seems to be a +99,9% masculine job. So far, I know two captains, both = 100%, were men – you see?!?)
On 10th, I will have a 40-50km bike ride, then visits and train travelling but on 16th I will be back to business and my diary will be, too.
But today, I still can offer only “sea-food for the eyes”
Let’s look at the containers and how they are fixed together:
The first two layers of them on board are fixed together with poles, the other ones by screw. I only have some suspicions but no real idea, how these screws are fixed and opened, so I (you!?) have to wait for the next cargo ship passage.
And then, sometimes, there were milky clouds in the water and the first officer said this is just water with bubbles, but for me it is strange that it came only sometimes and I didn’t see any relation between different kinds of waves and the appearance of those clouds.
