The veteran and highly experienced mariner Petros Drosos, from Aegina,continues recounting seafaring stories on “Fair Winds & Following Seas.”
He once again referred to the unforgettable 38-day voyage aboard the M/V ALPA, during which—with the bow cemented and the hull torn as far as Hold No. 4—the ship managed to return to Piraeus from Cuba. Fortunately, the Atlantic was calm and gentle. As he vividly recalls: “You could drop a piece of cotton and it would fall straight down like lead—the wind wouldn’t carry it at all.”
Amid the ordeal, however, he suffered from appendicitis. “And yet I held on all the way to Piraeus. I was the first to disembark and went straight into surgery,” he says.
Master Petros also spoke about his other career, in Kenya and Somalia, where he worked as a port engineer, overseeing the loading and transport of livestock at various African ports—an entirely different experience, full of unexpected challenges and countless stories.
Produced and presented by Antonis Karagiannakis