Milind Tambe A day in the life of... HonFIIMS Milind Tambe HonFIIMS, is the


ex Regional Director of the IIMS India Branch, a role he fulfilled with panache and enthusiasm for a number of years. He was recently presented with his


Honorary Fellow Award at the one day Symposium in India in recognition of his outstanding and long service to the Institute. Mike Schwarz caught up with Navi Mumbai based Milind to find out more, not just about his career in surveying, but also his passion for the Himalayas, digital photography and his home built trike too. And as you will soon


discover in this article, Milind is a man of many hidden talents.


Q1. How did you start your maritime career and what was your route into becoming a marine surveyor?


It wouldn’t be wrong to say that ours is a marine related family, my father being the first of the seafarers in our family. It was not surprising that I followed his footsteps. My maritime career started with the Indian Navy way back in 1983, when I joined the Indian Naval Training Establishment “INS Shivaji” as an Artificer Apprentice. I went through the four year engineering course to gain my Diploma in Engineering with Ship Construction and Naval Architecture as my specialisation.


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After my passing out in 1987, I was posted onboard the Floating Dock of the Indian Navy at Andaman Islands, and it was there I met a senior Marine Warranty Surveyor who was then in charge of the towing and the mooring operations of the Floating Dock. Being the most junior in the team then, I was assigned to assist the Warranty Surveyor and I did that for almost the entire 60 days that the Warranty Surveyor was present there. It was here that the seeds of becoming a Marine Surveyor began to take root. Looking at the way the gentleman worked, I was quite intrigued and asked him what he was and how could I be like him. He just said “be on board the Floating Dock as long as you


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