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To: John Carragher who wrote (119713)	4/12/2009 2:00:13 PM
From: LoneClone	Respond to of 206520

As I grew up in Victoria, a city on the Pacific with port facilities, a regular Sunday outing would be to go to the open houses on the freighters that were in dock. One of the games we kids would play was to try to guess what languages the sailors were speaking without asking first. Typically the captain would be of one nationality and would speak good English, the officers another nationality with less English, and the crew, one or two other nationalities with no English. I loved to find on the globe where the ships were registered, usually a flag of convenience like Panama or Liberia or the Philippines. We often get sailors jumping ship here in Vancouver, where I live now. Being a sailor on an ocean-going ship is a tough and poorly-paid job, albeit often better than anything they could find at home. LC