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Podcast: ROBERT VALOR MUSIC (Producer/Songwriter)
Episode: Get that 2 Degree list off of my ship and do it now God D___mn it!
Description: In 1983 upon reporting to my cargo ship in Subic Bay, the Phillipines, I loaded the ship out with hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh, frozen foods and vegetables along with consumable supplies and repair parts and when we finished the load out we discovered we had a 2-degree list on the ship. Normally one goes to the engineering officer to remove the list by simply shifting ballast. That did not happen because the skipper, Melvin D. Munsinger, gave explicit order for the chief engineer to NOT shift any ballast. The entire event was a "set up" from the...