Digital Resources for Seafarers’ Wellbeing
Seafarers' welfare organizations continue to develop digital communication tools to better serve seafarers.
“Communication with home makes the life we choose at sea a bit better”
by Susan Huppert, The MARE Report Connectivity is one of the most obvious and simple answers to ensure that seafarers are able to cope while on board, according to The Mission to Seafarers (MTS). MTS gets valuable feedback each quarter from
Communicating in the crisis
By Susan Huppert, NAMMA For years, chaplains at international seafarers centers have concerned themselves with the problem of isolation at sea. Work at sea has always been isolating, no doubt, so seeing the growth of new tools for communication via Internet
Morse and Marconi: Connecting with Seafarers
Photo: British Post Office engineers inspect Marconi's radio equipment during a demonstration on Flat Holm Island – near the port of Bristol, England, 13 May 1897. [British Post Office licensed under CC BY 3.0] By Rev. David Reid MA AFNI In 1836, the