A Filipino seafaring career is unthinkable without the involvement of a wide range of people, majority of whom are filial relations that elicit a deeply rooted motivation. A mariner’s story often tells a journey from a life of poverty in some distant province to the perilous expanse of the foreign seas with a culminating goal of providing a better life to the family left behind.

Captain Sherwin Cinco CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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