The veteran radio operator Giorgos Platanakis from Zakros, Crete, is at the helm of "Voice of Greece" and the show "Fair Winds and Following Seas."
His first voyage was in the summer of 1972 on the ship "ALKES," which he boarded in Volos. There, he unwittingly witnessed how cigarette smuggling was...
Veteran radio operator Giorgos Platanakis from Zakros, Crete, is at the helm of "Voice of Greece" and "Fair Winds and Following Seas."
"My maritime booklet was obtained on April 13, 1972, and it was my ticket to the future and better days," says Giorgos Platanakis with great joy. "It allowed me to...
The veteran radio operator Giorgos Platanakis from Zakros, Crete, recounts how he ended up studying to become a Radio Operator at the Higher Public School of Merchant Marine in Aspropyrgos in 1971, which at the time felt like being in the military.
He vividly describes how he earned a scholarship...
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