Radio operator Vangelis Markopoulos on ”Fair Winds and Following Seas” | 08.01.2024

Veteran radio operator Vangelis Makropoulos from Syros speaks to “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS”. He describes in his own way the different atmosphere of the festive days on the ship’s radio with phone calls and telegrams. Mr. Makropoulos reads a moving story by Captain Tzortzis Maratos in 1954, which was published in the newspaper “Kathimerini”. This is the encounter in the Red Sea of the Greek cargo ship “America” with an American warship carrying Greek soldiers for Korea. Thoughts and feelings when two Greek crews met in the middle of the ocean…