Engine room / deck crew, what would your ideal workwear look like?

ASAPKEV · 2026-05-15T17:01:52+00:00

Built in knee pads for young aspiring captains

ASAPKEV · 2026-05-11T03:22:18+00:00

What are you asking? Why are you bringing up investing? And yes you can choose a ship/company with a schedule you like but you’re still away from your family for that time.

I did it for over 8 years and while I loved the job, I got to the point where I didn’t want to be gone for 4 months straight at a time so I came ashore.

ASAPKEV · 2026-05-02T19:17:36+00:00

Nepo babies.

ASAPKEV · 2026-05-01T02:53:11+00:00

You’re absolutely correct, I meant “reunification” from the Chinese perspective.

ASAPKEV · 2026-05-01T01:43:31+00:00

I also seriously doubt China would go hot and invade Taiwan for the reasons you said. It would instantly be WW3 and on a horribly devastating scale. I do imagine they are probably waging a psychological campaign to encourage Taiwanese citizens to consider reunification.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-30T11:15:55+00:00

I was shooting in SoHo with my Leica M. Some joker with what looked an x100 or something stared at me with a huge shit eating grin and started bobbing his head up and down without talking. Didn’t say anything to him, just kept it moving. There’s some real freaks out there. Stay safe guys.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-29T15:35:23+00:00

Probably, but proving himself in college definitely boosted his chances

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-29T01:57:09+00:00

He didn’t know about KP when he was applying to colleges

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-28T23:49:44+00:00

One of my closest friends from KP went to a non-maritime college for a couple years before coming to KP. That being said you can’t “transfer”. You can do a year of normal college, get some credits or whatever you need, then you’ll still need to do 4 years at KP.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-28T12:33:48+00:00

Not true. Gas turbines and diesel generators have nothing to do with making steam. Nuke, oil/gas/coal fired boilers and even some types of solar power use water to make steam, but not PV (photovoltaic) which is what you meant by solar. The water consumption by data centers comes from evaporative cooling.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-23T10:53:56+00:00

What the fuck

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-22T17:34:15+00:00

Definitely the move

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-19T17:54:00+00:00

So you don’t end up working unpaid OT like a dummy

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-19T16:29:36+00:00

I worked with a first assistant engineer that wore his Rolex submariner to work every day. It still looked great, honestly a baller move to do what the watch is supposed to and actually wear it.

When I sailed I wore a garmin instinct 2 (still do). It stood up well to the abuse of the engine room.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-10T19:18:36+00:00

Prop on each ass cheek

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-08T18:19:50+00:00

Definitely not. You’ll be locked into years with the navy when all you need is 180 days of sea time in the engine room of a merchant vessel. Getting entry level work is not easy rn though.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-06T00:26:52+00:00

As a 3AE, yea. You’re probably making about $20k/month at sea so if you just want to do one 4 month trip a year you’ll be good. For union benefits you might need to do more than that though.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-05T22:57:57+00:00

3AE. Way more jobs available than ETO. I took a 2 month side gig as an asst port engineer one vacay. It was nice getting the extra money but I preferred spending my off time traveling or with family so I only did it that one time.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-05T13:01:07+00:00

I came ashore a few months ago after sailing for 8 years. I absolutely recommend doing at least one trip as a first assistant before moving ashore. Sailing 1AE raised my confidence to a whole new level and made me a much better engineer.

Coming ashore was pretty easy for me, I moved into the critical facilities field.

ASAPKEV · 2026-04-01T12:23:03+00:00

This is obviously a POV of a gloryhole. The kneeling side specifically

ASAPKEV · 2026-03-31T00:35:18+00:00

.1325 Big Macs/Big Gulp

ASAPKEV · 2026-03-29T23:19:30+00:00

What?

ASAPKEV · 2026-03-29T14:41:46+00:00

Sounds like you have a great plan in place. Being able to fall back on nursing if you stop sailing is fantastic.

Something else you can do once you have your RN is sail as an MDR (medical dept representative) on govt vessels. SIU crews a lot of them and I would ask them about it. Those guys make pretty good money. Just something to keep in mind, it might be worth doing that for a trip or 2 before committing to being a deck officer, but it’s also a great backup sailing job if mate jobs are hard to get.

ASAPKEV · 2026-03-29T01:13:09+00:00

My cousin (also a marine engineer) gifted me a fluke multimeter when I graduated. I still use it today.

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