when seaferers failed in medical due to kidney stone, they always say " lagi kasi akong umiinom ng tubig sa barko" nice topic

Hoo boy. I can sure relate to what you said about the crew and bottled water. On the last boat that I worked on, this was the water path; we worked the Illinois River in the USA from Saint Louis to Chicago: fresh water tank was filled with city water meeting or exceeding EPA standards through 100 micron filters, from the tank, it passed through a 50 micron filter, a 5 micron filter, a UV sterilizer, then two 20 inch carbon filters in series, then a demineralizer before going out to the rest of the boat. The crew: "Uh, Uh! I'm not drinking THAT! BUT! Their ice cubes, made with that water. Their coffee, made with that water. Their meals, cooked with that water. Their iced tea, orange juice, Kool Aid, all made with that water. On the last overhaul, we had a bottle filler installed in the galley... Now, all of a sudden, they'll drink the water from that! The only difference was that the bottle filler had a very small inline carbon filter... People... :-)

Chief, these video’s have been professional-grade here lately. Very informative and entertaining.

As a follow-up to the last episode, we will discuss if the fresh water produced by ships is safe for drinking. Enjoy!

Back in the 1970's, I was a reactor operator on the USS Enterprise. Being a nuclear carrier, we would produce so much water that we would pump excess overboard. We were never on water hours. Except once. Some guy accidentally let avgas into the fresh water tanks. It took several weeks to flush out the tanks, and in the meantime our water tasted like gas. Also, since the priorities for fresh water was for the reactor and for washing planes, and contaminated water couldn't be used for those, we went on water hours for those several weeks.

Thats why Filipino Merchant Marines seafarers are the best in the world. They make up 30% of the worlds seafarers. Keep it up Chief Engineer Makoi!

If I was still a ship's cook, I would be more sure of the ship's water supply than bottled water, because sometimes pollution in the plants such as bottled drinking water occurs. and the person in charge of the ship is easy to get hold of. In India, I have found that the bottled water I got, was made from seawater. Good wind, your retired food technoligist

In the navy, we use a reverse osmosis plant on the frigates. We have system set to top up fw tanks when water produced reaches under 300 ppm. We also produce feed water somewhere under 3 ppm for our two steam generators and for our gas turbine water wash routines

I used to work for a water filtering company, it’s funny how the system basics are similar but in much smaller scale for residential use, ours was based on reverse osmosis but adding the minerals is the same, and some systems also have UV light, depending on the customers request. I would actually argue depending on the bottled water quality, there is a good chance the ships water is actually better than bottled water, 1. Very often bottle water it’s just tapwater filtered, from unknown Quality of both the water and the filter process. 2. Water leeches from the plastic bottle it’s sitting in for months before you actually consume it. 3. on the ships water you control the water and you know exactly what you’re getting (often bottle of water came out in lab tests to be not a good quality) Anyway Great channel I’ve been really enjoying it Thank you for all your hard work

Hi Chief - make a video on what happens if someone falls critically ill while onboard a ship? How they receive medication? In case of an emergency, how can they reach to a hospital?

I have to say, you are a great ambassador of your country. You truly let your country and industry shine!

Good rule of thumb. If the chief engineer drinks the tap water you can too!

Great video Chief! I’m not a mariner, but we do cruise frequently (at least under normal circumstances) and your videos provide enlightenment into ship operations most of which I assume are universal to just about every ship. I find your videos to be of top quality right up there with the best in broadcast media.

Growing up,my father was chief engineer on oil tankers. I enjoy your channel,chief. Brings back memories.

My brother is a captain. He has visaya accent when he speak english. Peace brother. But you speak really well

Watching you from Egypt, suez city Keep going chief we like you

Yung C/E mong malupit 😎👌 very educational chief. Thanks.

Sir im looking forward for more interesting, complicated topics about all the machineries onboard ..

Hey Chief! Each day your videos get better and better! Salutes from Brazil

We have a rainwater collection system here at the house, with similar filtering and UV sterilization equipment. It's great! Showering, drinking, washing clothes and dishes are all much better than "city water," Tell your crew they are fortunate to have such good water systems on board.

very nice chief makoi. advanced study na to especially sa aux mach na subject. more power po chief

Graphics are awesome Chief. 24 year USN. Always drank the water till they said you can’t. Did see cloudy water and poor taste.

Video quality improved both content as well as concept wise. Looking forward to the next video. You gave great insights about seafaring and seafarer lives. Following your channel from March-April 2020. Thank you. Stay safe and healthy during these testing times.

As always, another great video. Here is a story for your shipmates that drink bottled water. A lab in Toronto sent technicians out and bought different brands of bottled water. They tested the bottles and compared it to their tap water and the tap water was the best.

Galley Crew here and we use water produce by ship specially when mixing it with Powdered Juice. So that they won't taste it differently.

Step father of mine served in the U.S. Navy(1977-1986) and the drinking water on board was better than any sold bottled water sold in the states. No chemical or tablets were used, just the magic of the drinking water maker that was on board.

Good video even domestic water towers normally have an inch or two of mud in them. So what is safe that’s always a good question

Sometime ago, a friend of mine introduced me to a seaman working as a machinist in an international cargo vessel. He once told me about the drinking water in the ship which came from the sea. He had mentioned about desalination and reverse osmosis but so far, I have not seen such kind of device but only those in commercial mineral water refilling station until I have watched your channel. Come to think of it, it's more safer to drink than those tap water from the local water system in our area which was treated only with chlorine. Indeed, I'm contemplating to install a reverse osmosis in our faucet in which the water seems no longer clear. Very informative and detailed as well as worth viewing. More Power!

Love this format! Very Cool! I don't know how I missed this one...Spot on.

Obviously other ships water systems may not be as tight as yours. Great topic and very well presented.

Chief, you crack me up. The ship is using the exact same process as the bottled water companies use. I work in a print shop, and we got our share of goofs that drink bottled water, but paying attention to my area's water quality our water is better than bottled. Maybe I am to blame as they seen me change the filter and see the clay setiments and gross out. Not a problem, unless they flush out the hydrants, so I tell them to if it is brown, wait a half hour and flush the toilet and it will clear up. Modern cities even with their flaws opperate on seperate systems for water and sewage. They figure it out at the last turn of the century. Got stuck on canoeing trip in Canada and our troop cheaped out with using household bleach. My friend and I had Iodine tablets and turned a profit because people wanted a different change of bad. We also had tablets to neutralize the taste of iodine, but they never got to the point of buying them because we had one pack and wanted ten times the price. The easy way to wig people out about the water they drink is to tell them it is safe. With water it is not about the souce, but cross contamination which is vertually non existant for most of the world.

I used to live and work at a place that had its own water source and processing plant. The manager of the plant used to laugh at those who were buying bottled water. He used to post the weekly test reports for the drinking water and every week it was the same. 100% H20, no trace elements and no organisms. Unfortunately, the block I lived in was 20 years old and had steel pipework. Pure water is more corrosive than regular tap water. About 1am I discovered that the feed pipe to a urinal had corroded through when the valve snapped clean off the 1 ¾ inch pipe. Soaking me, as I stepped aside the fire pumps activated due to the pressure drop. In five minutes the whole block was flooded, it was an hour before the water was shut off at the plant because to save money they didn't install valves on each block as they were meant to be temporary housing for the builders.

Excellent video. I am a retired airline Captain. I have always liked technical things. When I started as an airline pilot, we all started as flight engineers. As part of our testing we had to draw the systems schematics by memory and explain how each component worked. This reminds me so much of the system knowledge we lived in.

I don't usually comment on sponsor messages. But wow, yeah, as a landlubber I've never thought of what a huge pain just staying connected is for mariners. I hope you end up on ships with good Internet some day.

Good Morning Chief Makoi, thank you very much for explaing this process so well. If the crew would know how bad the Quality of some bottled table waters is, they wouldn´t drink it anymore.

I remember when I was a deck apprentice (1963-66) cleaning out fresh water tanks and cement washing them. None of the sophisticated evaporation processes existed. I dread to think what we must have been drinking !? :)

Very good explanation about the fresh water from the boats ... and I never saw anyone get sick from drinking water from the boat🚢👍

nice Chief. now i can save money next contract by not buying bottled water anymore☺️

GOD BLESS you chief! Salamat for sharing your Knowledge. 🤗🤗

Galing talaga ni Chief. Ayos to. More knowledge content. Support Chief Makoi.

Chief, I serve as a musician on a cruise ship, and I just want to say you are the man. Since people always talk trash about the tap water from cruise ships and choose to drink bottled, I've always wondered if you have ever seen the results of tests carried on the purified water, just to see how exactly the water is different from bottled/boiled tap water. It does taste different, I wonder why.

Keep the blue skies up

Nice Video Chief!! Excellent quality and looking forward for more!

Thank you so much sir for a well explained knowledgable videos sir , much respect . I hope and expect more to have a wide knowledge about onboard a ship and as a Marine Engineer. Im an Engine Cadet , last year i was onboard i have learn a lot also but as a first timer im still struggling until i found out you sir and your videos everythings so easy for you . Hope in future sir i can learn more about in your videos as a marine engineer .

Old school, but our engineers cleaned the holding tanks with a sort of solvent. Water was terrible for 7 weeks. Canadian government ship, so drank beer instead, lol. Orange juice, grapefruit, anything but coffee or water, lol.

Excellent description

Very well said sir , if the process is carried out properly we can say it is safe to drink water produce in ship

well, i started out thinking i was going to get some work done. i have now watched about a dozen of your excellent, informative, and interesting videos

Good show Chief. It's been over thirty years since I was at sea. I like to see the new equipment.

Very interesting topic, Shout Out Chief Makoi

Great vlog as always my friend! Me, coming from the airline industry, we are told not to drink the water onboard the aircraft. I think that has to do with the copper tubings. If the water is above 87 C then I think it safe to drink. Aircraft do not need the stuff that you guys need onboard ships. We are away a few hours, not months.

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Chief Makoi, I have nothing to do with the shipping industry. I stumbled across your KZfaq page. I love it and fascinated on your explanations on the technology these ships have. You are very knowledgeable. I wish I would have took up this career when I was younger. Keep up the videos. Bill Breedlove

Bearing in mind it was 80 years ago and probably a very different desalinization process, my dad felt like the desalinized water in the ships he served on during WWII was responsible for him losing his teeth in his 40s. As for comparing to bottled water, who knows? Much bottled water is simply filtered tap water. Even your "spring" waters may have who knows what in it, and not be healthier than your water generator's output. My residential water comes from a reservoir which occasionally does this thing called "turning over" (methane gas is release from all the sediment and detritus on the bottom). For a few days, our water smells like someone forgot to flush the toilet, but it is supposedly still safe to drink.

Really enjoy your show because I have never been on a ship and find them most fascinating. I bet you are a great chief. You have such a great dedication to your country and your family. Thanks for giving your time to share your very interesting life.

Dear chief MAKOi I study english language from your videos also I repeat some materials of my profession.Thank you so much for your work!

Bottled water is just the same city water that's been filtered again at the bottling plant. You can get the same filtration at home & avoid buying plastic bottles.

I drank ship's water all my 25 years of sailing except on my second ship which was really old and had to load up freshwater from shore from time to time for reasons I didn't know. My reasons for not buying the bottled water were "the agency/company would tell us if the ship's water isn't safe to drink and since they did not, then it must be safe and I didn't want to add any more plastic bottle garbage plus of course the additional expense". You are right about sailors having a lot of unfounded beliefs regarding drinking water. An AB that I sailed with always reboiled his soup in the microwave before eating. Inis na inis si Mayor everytime maririnig nya ang beep beep ng microwave kasi kakahango lang sa kalan tapos papakuluin pa ulit. I asked the AB why and he said "to kill the bacteria". I also sailed with a 2nd mate who consumed a lot of bottled water. He once told me that he could finish off a 1.5 liter bottle while walking mula popa hanggang prowa. I told him that it's bad but he didn't believe me. Meron namang barko akong nasakyan libre bottled water at ginawa namang final rinse sa buhok ng isa kong kasama pantanggal daw ng dundruff.

Excellent video sir

Ganda chief very educational

Need more videos like this, Chief! Love the content!

Chief, please continue this series..

My ship doesn't have a mineralizer or UV lamp built in. Had a mineralizer installed on one of the fountains (still skeptical on if it actually worked or not) and we chloronate our tanks to prevent biological contaminants. Most of the crew had to rely on vitamins and mineral additive packets. Boy that water really hits different when we hit port calls, and you could tell the difference immediately when we started producing our own water again.

Chief Makoi nakaka proud! Matinding green screen sir, hanip!

Very informative... Im not a seafarer but your topics always makes me interested with how seafarer's life is... Maybe i really wanted to be one. Anyway... Congratulations.. im not saying that your previous videos are not good but everything improved and i like it. All videos are interesting and informative and that alone for me is a good thing to watch and not just a waste of time. Keep it up Chief Makoi, i know it's not that easy to do a video and everything about it but..... You're one of the best I've seen. Can't wait for more of your uploads. God bless Chief and also your family, be safe and keep safe.😉

The chemicals don't contaminate the fresh water as its heavier. However if the water drank is less than 10ppm, therefore there are of course some particles.

I listen to be informed you are a great teacher

He isn't kidding when he says distilled water has a flat taste. Don't mind cleaning my coffee pot occasionally as long as I don't have flat coffee: my city's tap water has always been decent.

Though this is the topic of discussions but the packaged bottled drinking water available through out the globe is more poisonous. But Chief I like your spirit... being an engineer & seafarer.... you still try to drink fresh water made by ship.......great

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I was going to say as I was watching this, if I see the chief engineer drinking the ship's water, it's good enough for me too.

Fwg is a good compensate for Engine crew. Sometimes when ER temp is so high and Engine crew were carrying out maintenance water consumption rate is 3x. So if you bought bottled water it would be a waste cuz body wont absorb nutrients and only pass thru sweat and urine.

Thank you Chief Makoi for sharing your knowledge by explaining how this FWG system works. It helps me a lot and gives me more understanding about the process. :)

Sabi ng iba basta seaman lang parang tingin nila yung karunungan is parang basic lang parang sinasabi nila na pang bobo na kurso pero on how you discuss and explain it, chief makoi you prove them wrong that this profession must also repect at hindi minamaliit lang, thank you for another great vlog again. More power po.

You indeed have a great channel, Chief. Keep up the good work, please. Bon voyages.

Done watching,thank u chief!.. c yeah next episode:)

Your videos are really very, very professional, keep it up. Me and my wife (which is Filipina) enjoy watching them a lot. Maybe the safest to drink on board a ship is San Miguel, but that is probably in short supply or even banned on board

Osm 👌 explanation sir! Knowledgeable & easily understood . I have an suggestion to make a video on marine boiler and OWS.

Chief engineer in charge of the water making machinery drinks the water = plenty good enough for me. Drink up.

Your one knowledgeable person. If your ever in the port of Baltimore MD or Norfork Va it would be priceless to have lunch with you . On my dime that is . Be healthy and safe.

I have spent about a year on various cruise ships as a passenger. The water, while safe, always tastes a bit odd in an unpleasant way. My solution is to take a Brita or other brand of charcoal water filter with me.

Great vid!

Although I'm not in the shipping business but I have read some things left an right about it. In my believe the purification process you have described will likely do fine to remove contaminants and bacteria but not every pipe system is well maintained. There are plenty examples of neglected ships and lousy crew, have a look at Parismou "rustbucket" or "caught in the net" list.

Excellent video, Chief!

Trick is to watch the skipper and chief engineer. If they drink the water? All is well.

There are many people who do not want to drink the water from the house-tap, in certain place this could be reasonable, but in many other actually it is NOT, bottled-waters are subject to less stringent laws in many countries....

I am very amazed on your study call chief makoi.

Very interesting , enjoyed this video very much , 👍

Hi chief waiting here in California

thank u sir very informative

Answer to "is this drinking water safe" is always "has it been tested safe". Is ships from sea water made potable supply safe to drink from? It can be since there is ways to produce it to even strictest potable quality, but one wouldn't know without testing. That is the only way to be sure. Be it ship, municipal supply, personal well or just spring water it can be safe since all of these have options to make it safe or the source is naturally safe. However on none of these one can say one way or another in general terms without testing. All one can say is "it they are running responsible operation, it should be so". That responsible operation including systemic testing regime of the potable water. Supplies have been contaminated even against best efforts of the operator both on land and at sea. Something just contaminating the after treatment pipelines etc. Hence only way to be sure is to test. Once it gets caught on test, responsible operator orders immediate quarantine of that water and it's use. Until the source has been inspected and necessary actions taken to make the water again provably test safe to drink. The guarantee of safe drinking water is not the treatment itself, but the testing of the supply. Treatment is way to get that test to show "this is safe to drink". Treatment can fail, source be contaminated after treatment etc. so testing the water coming out of the tap is the one way to say it for sure. Regardless of source. Heck bottling plant might be bottling contaminated water, unless they regularly test samples from their completed bottled waters to be sure that the source is clean and their bottling process doesn't introduce contamination. If one has any doubts about the water quality? Ask the ships crew, when was water last tested and what were the results. Heck ask to soo testing log. Any responsible ships crew/master etc. shouldn't get angry about such question. Rather if they are acting responsible, they would take point of pride to tell "Our water is tested every X time as recommended and demanded by regulation, last test on schedule landed to Y and according to our test log it was clean. If you want, we can produce the test log/report for you." Since anyone dealing with potable water knows, the supply can get freak contaminated even with operator running all the water treatment to the best and strictest protocols. That is why water gets tested regularly. It isn't the necessarily operators fault water gets contaminated. What is operators fault is, if they don't spot that the water is contaminated.

Based on this presentation, I would definitely drink the ship's water over bottled water any day of the week. Plastic bottles are not safe to drink from, especially if they are exposed to sunlight.

U are my motivation sir and I love you❤❤

travel the world for free😍❤️ ~seaman

I hate provisioning when there is a lot of bottled water. Akyat pa yan sa bonded store. Early year 2000, cases of beer 🍺 lang. 😂

Chief Makoi is the Erin Brockovich of the high seas.

well, there was a case on Italian Navy where they found water was not safe and there was a lawsuit against the Italian Navy leaded by some italian navy crew

I've seen orange water coming out of the pipe and even showered with salt water on a 4 years old ship. Let's say that fresh water on board depends on the competence of who maintains the fresh water plant. Since crew changes continuously and you don't know how the guys before you operated the plant, the safer option is to stick to bottled water.

Would Love to see a video on galvanic corrosion

Nice vlog sir 😀😍