international level by introducing short courses in coordination with IIMS and IIMS membership can become a prerequisite to become surveyors at senior level.


Q8. What are the biggest challenges you face in your day-to-day job as a surveyor?


A8. It is very challenging and hectic for a surveyor to board a vessel at the anchorage on time after an incident, collect information and evidence, inspect damage and send the initial report shortly after returning to base. Travel time, safe travel and reporting within the shortest possible time are the biggest challenges.


Teeing off at Bhatiary Golf Club at Chattogram


Q9. One of the areas of discussion that cropped up several times during the conference was where the next generation of marine surveyors will come from. Of course, this is not just an issue in Bangladesh, but globally too. What are your thoughts about this and what in your opinion can the industry do to try and make surveying an attractive and worthwhile career to pursue?


Down memory lane- at IIMS conference in London in May 2011


A9. Motivation is the key word. Surveying is more than just a profession, it’s a passion. Younger generation mariners have to be motivated to choose surveying as a profession. Awareness can be raised through seminars and conferences, and experienced senior surveyors should not hesitate to mentor the younger generation. Globally recognized survey companies can publish attractive adverts in marine publications and journals and recruit interested young seafarers and/ or young graduates from other faculties and train them to become marine surveyors.


Q10. One statistic I was given astonished me. I understand that Chattogram, which is recognised as perhaps the world’s largest area for ship breaking, is expecting to scrap up to 15,000 vessels by the end of this decade. That seems extraordinary. What can you tell me about this?


At Istanbul under the Bhosphorus Bridge during the cruise


A10. Chattogram with its gently sloping natural coastlines is a very popular place for the demolition of large ocean-going vessels. There


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