Team: Ambassador

Born Californian, Herb has been a “Waterman” from the start. Solid dedication to the maritime community over the past four decades.  Herb is a maritime operations consultant based in Florida, US who possesses a comprehensive background in commercial yachts and superyachts, offshore and diving support vessels. He has extensive experience afloat as master, mate and…

Anto George Antony is an Enthusiastic Health, safety, environmental Advisor, Maritime journalist, Peace Ambassador of United nations NGO and Volunteers co-ordinator of Heal the World charity organisation.

Manoj is VP Marine and DPA/CSO for Zeaborn Ship Management in Singapore having previously been a vessel and operations manager for 11 years, and 4 years as QHSE manager. He has experience of Cape size slurry carriers, bulk carriers (all sizes from Handy to Cape), heavy lift and RO-RO vessels. He has also sailed as…

Yrhen Balinis is an aspiring deck officer and maritime journalist. He is an advisory board member for Human Rights at Sea, a member of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), the international and maritime representative for the Younger Members’ Group at RIN, an associate Member of The Nautical Institute, and a member advocate of the…

Zhiwei completed her PhD in 2011, under the aegis of the SIRC-Nippon Foundation Fellowship Program of Cardiff University, UK and worked at Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) before joining Dalian Maritime University in 2012, teaching Maritime Economics and Shipping Management. She was appointed the Director of Seafarers Research Centre in 2015 and has contributed to…

Maximiliano Vaccarezza is an Argentinian Deck Officer who is currently serving as a Second Officer onboard a chemical/oil tanker and hoping to expand his career in DP PSV vessels.

James started his seafaring career in 2011, first in the yachting industry and then progressing through the deck department to the rank of Second Officer and relief Chief Officer. He has worked through his yachting tickets and achieved an HNC in Nautical Studies at Warsash Maritime College [United Kingdom], and has gained valuable insight into…

Owain has been in the yachting industry since the age of 19.  Coming from a seafaring family, he spent many summer holidays on commercial ships watching how it all worked from the Caribbean to Mediterranean to the good old Irish sea. He joined the RNLI at 16 back in his home village of Moelfre on Anglesey, this is…

Joanne usually sails as Chief Officer in the Offshore Industry and recently worked as DPA / QHSE Officer for a fleet of 30 vessels. Outside of her day-to-day work, Joanne is passionately involved in improving the Human Rights of seafarers, particularly addressing mental health and issues of discrimination and harassment. To improve safety and dramatically…

Clive has been a seafarer for over 45 years during which he has held command of cargo ships, cruise ships, mega-yachts and large sailing vessels. He is now the director of a professional seafarer training and certification academy in Phuket, Thailand.

Arie started a career at sea in 1993 in the Royal Dutch Navy as a watch/ops officer.  In 2001 he changed to working with juvenile delinquents on a training vessel (MV Koningin Juliana) for 8 years and in 2008 he started pilot training while working on tugboats and dynamic positioning (DP) vessels. Arie is an…

Özgür lives in Istanbul. He graduated from maritime school in 2002 as a deck officer. He has work experience with multinational crews on general cargo vessels, oil and chemical tankers. He came ashore and worked in the crewing department at a management company. After that he returned to sea and is still working on tankers.…