Leave your vessel and company data to your family

The Kaliningrad Territorial Organization of the SUR often receives appeals not from seafarers, but from their wives and relatives. And sometimes you just wonder: the grown persons, the members of one family, but they don’t know even basic information concerning their relative:  name of the vessel,  name of the company and even the position of the seafarer. It happens that they can’t even remember the year of birth of a seafarer!

The reason for concern in such cases is usually either the loss of remittances from the seafarer and the loss of  contact with him, or a sudden change in plans, for example, a person  was going to set sail and suddenly has disappeared: it is not clear whether he is at sea or somewhere on the shore ...

The other day, we received an appeal from the relatives of seafarer  Alexander G., who has stopped communicating since February.

The seafarer's sister explained that Alexander went to sea in January, the last time she talked to him on the phone was in February, and now his phone is unavailable: "Just vanished into thin air!"

She does not know a name and a type of the vessel Alexander joined, and she has no idea to what company he has been employed.

-We explained to the woman that, firstly, she should go to police and file a missing persons report concerning her brother, because our search capabilities are limited, - Vladimir Sychev, the KTO SUR instructor for communications with seafarers said, - but for our part, we will try to enquire about her brother in the maritime community of the region: maybe someone knows something about the missing seafarer.

And so it happened: the crewing agency through which the sailor was employed was found. They said that everything was fine with Alexander and that at the moment he was at sea on board a fishing vessel. The SUR gave contact numbers to the seafarer's relatives.

-We hope that now they will not be lost, - Vladimir Sychev said. - Once again, we appeal to seafarers, especially fishermen: please give  your relatives or friends the information about the vessel on which you are going to work, and about the company that has employed you. And best of all leave them a copy of your contract. And try to get in contact with your family more while at sea. Do not forget that there are people on shore who are waiting for you and worry about you.

Source: KTO SUR

photo: SUR