Seafarers Happiness

On August 16 we will hold a training day in Halifax. We have people from Saint John, St. John’s and Halifax planning to come. The course “Safe Talk” will be presented by Josh Messick from Baltimore. This is a key course that will be required by anyone who has contact with seafarers in any of…

CONGRADULATIONS TO OUR OWN REV. JOSH MESSICK! The governor of Maryland will be presenting Josh with a citation for his work with the crew of the “Dali” following the terrible accident and bridge collapse last March in Baltimore. Josh spent many hours working with the members of the crew, both in Baltimore and elsewhere after the ship was…

I have created a WhatsApp group for all Station Managers and Chaplains. Most of us use this forum for connecting with seafarers anyway so why reinvent something. Look at the lower bottom right of any page on this site and you should see it. This is a chat facility to keep in touch with one…

Here is the Monthly Report from Halifax. A very well done report. We continue to be very busy.Joseph is embracing the ship welfare visitors hours he is flexing to enable visitation of crew on Sundays and in the later evenings when there are many short turnarounds. Having checked in again with the crew of the…

Have a look at the Master Mariners News Clips page. This is the perspective of ship captains and there is always something relevent in these almost daily articles. Note that the first cruise ship of the season has just arrived in Halifax! Also I have been assigned a MTS email. eric.phinney@mtsmail.org Please update your records….

I am currently in Vancouver at a regional NAMMA Conference.    Jason Z, true to his calling, did an amazing deep dive into the history of the shared work here in Vancouver.   It was excellent scholarly work as he took us through the “story” of tensions, visions, realities and resolution. Every port community has its…