Wireless operator, radio electronics specialist and sub-lieutenant Charalambos Karvounas speaks on “Fair Winds and Following Seas” on Voice of Greece.
“Our thoughts are with those people—seafarers who have been for many days under difficult conditions in the region of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. Their lives and their mental well-being are what matter most, and these are being tested,” Charalambos Karvounas notes, among other things. “I happened to be in those areas during my seafaring career and witnessed first-hand the difficulties of everyday life and the conditions in that region.”
Karvounas comes from a family deeply rooted in shipping, with his father, siblings, brothers-in-law, uncles, cousins and nephews all devoted to the maritime profession.
“I first went to sea on the M/V Katerina Drakopoulos, a general cargo vessel of Empros Lines. We sailed from Thessaloniki, Limassol and İskenderun, and then on to five ports in Sweden,” he adds.
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