Some maritime enigmas of our time
“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out,” wrote the great British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. Finding out is precisely what we’ve been doing since we started the blog in August 2009. However, the maritime industry, and not least the manning and training sector, is so full of ironies and contradictions that the simple question of “why?” could be quite vexing at times. Here’s a list of ten things that continue to perplex and even bewilder us and perhaps some of our readers as well: (more…)
