The view from New Brighton inspired me to read Horatio
Clare’s excellent Down to the Sea in
Ships, about his journey round the world on two container ships. The title
is of course from Psalm 107: ‘They that go down to the sea in ships and do business in
great waters, they see the workings of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.’ This
is what Clare also discovers, ‘a parallel world which sustains
the one we inhabit’. The sailors on container ships, many of them Filipinos
paid shamefully less than the rest of the crew, are ignorant of what is in the
containers because otherwise the shipping companies think they will be tempted
to steal the contents. But ‘informed guesswork suggests we will have flashy
cars in some of the boxes - the kind no one wants to risk on a car carrier -
and scrap metals for China’s hungry markets, and paper and plastic waste for
recycling or disposal.’
At the end of
his journey Clare says he felt like the Ancient Mariner, wanting to stoppeth
one in three and say ‘listen, there is a ship at sea tonight, and this is who
is on board, and this is what their lives are like, and without them none of
this world you call normal would exist’. He, meanwhile, ‘will always be able to
hear the moans and whistles of her stairwell, her ghost music, the muted and
ceaseless piano of her theme tune, and the enduring, resisting stoicism of the
men who sing and hum her on.’
Picture
of Perch Rock lighthouse and container ship © Stephen McKay (Creative Commons
Licence).
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