El Graduado
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I was reading a thread recently that was complaining about the Port Captain, and I actually started feeling sorry for the guy. I think everybody needs to cut him a little slack; he probably did not know what he was getting into when he managed to get this job (which is a quite a plum, no doubt).
Before he came here in April 2015, he was the Port Captain of Frontera, Tabasco for about a year and a half. Frontera is a very small port, 10 kilometers up the Grijalva River. The channel depth from the mouth of the river to the port runs about 1.8 to 2 meters deep, and the port serves mainly fishing cooperative fishing boats and off-shore oil rig service boats. It is not a tourist destination, and as far as I can tell, it does not have any dive shops, cruise ships, glass-bottom boats, ferries, water-taxies, parasailing, submarines, sailboats, sport-fishing boats, ironman triathlons, or tourists.
Before serving his seventeen-month stint as Port Captain in Frontera (his only previous posting as a Port Captain before Cozumel), he was serving his second term as the director of a merchant marine school, Fernando Siliceo y Torres in Veracruz. Prior to that, he was stationed in London for four years as the Mexican representative for the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for measures to improve the safety and security of international shipping and to prevent pollution from ships, according to their website. Prior to his London posting, he was serving his first term as the director of the merchant marine school, Fernando Siliceo y Torres (he served as director for two, non-consecutive periods for a total of 13 years).
If anybody wants to send him your well-wishes, his email is jose.suarez@sct.gob.mx, and his phone number is 52-(987) 872-0169, extension 60877.
Before he came here in April 2015, he was the Port Captain of Frontera, Tabasco for about a year and a half. Frontera is a very small port, 10 kilometers up the Grijalva River. The channel depth from the mouth of the river to the port runs about 1.8 to 2 meters deep, and the port serves mainly fishing cooperative fishing boats and off-shore oil rig service boats. It is not a tourist destination, and as far as I can tell, it does not have any dive shops, cruise ships, glass-bottom boats, ferries, water-taxies, parasailing, submarines, sailboats, sport-fishing boats, ironman triathlons, or tourists.
Before serving his seventeen-month stint as Port Captain in Frontera (his only previous posting as a Port Captain before Cozumel), he was serving his second term as the director of a merchant marine school, Fernando Siliceo y Torres in Veracruz. Prior to that, he was stationed in London for four years as the Mexican representative for the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for measures to improve the safety and security of international shipping and to prevent pollution from ships, according to their website. Prior to his London posting, he was serving his first term as the director of the merchant marine school, Fernando Siliceo y Torres (he served as director for two, non-consecutive periods for a total of 13 years).
If anybody wants to send him your well-wishes, his email is jose.suarez@sct.gob.mx, and his phone number is 52-(987) 872-0169, extension 60877.
