Going to sea used to be a living. You get around a bit, and taste all sorts of beers.

Of course you have to work for a living.

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Passing an iceberg in the Davis Strait to the west of Greenland. At one time we had several hundred of these on the radar.

  Tricky business of putting two tankers alongside each other off the Falklands in 1982.  
 
What follows is probably not of much interest to anybody outside of merchant ship enthusiasts. The job I used to do onboard was a 'sparky'. At one time the primary communication for a merchant ship was MF/HF radio, and the time honoured morse key. All pretty much gone now, but some of these pix might be of interest to aging keybashers. Some of the ships radio rooms I have worked.
This was pretty old even when I was on it. All the equipment uses valves (tubes). Not one piece of solid state kit in sight.  
 
A little more modern. All solid state with the exception of the main transmitter power amp. Fully synthesised equipment (that means you don't need individual crystals to generate frequencies) ....(wow, shades of Stargate and stuff .. ).  
An efficient, modern, no-nonsense radio shack on a Candadian Pacific Tanker. It doesn't look a lot, but you can work the entire globe with that morse key you see on the right of the bench.
Listening for the distant twitter of morse in the dead of night.