Seafaring. It is a universe condensed in a word. For many, it is simply a highly technical profession of steel and sea, transporting products and people from one country to another. For those who lived a life at sea, toiling and sweating to move the world, seafaring means everything.
Seafaring stories from Filipinos today are the usual mix of a cultural attachment to family — how it can be the same reason for sending men out to sea and eventually pulling them back to shore — and the struggles of keeping up with the ever-evolving technologies of shipping.
Commodore Jovito Guarin Tamayo CONTRIBUTED PHOTO