Ep18: JD Palfreeman - Former Ship Photographer and Shore Excursion Manager

Explicit content warning

08/21/24 • 72 min

JD worked on a ship with me during my first contract back in 2006, but his decade long career is a 50/50 split, between working in photography/videography and shore excursions.

In this episode you will learn how to lower your expectations when venturing out on a land booked trip, how to sleep through an onboard fire, and what happens after you hit an iceberg.

You may also learn a thing or two about the positives covid had on the industry, as well as 'where da food at'.

JD had his guard up during this episode, so it took a fair bit of inquisitive probing to get any decent stories out of him.

In fairness to JD, he knows all to well the dangers of antagonizing the industry, and I'll give him some tiny degree of credit, because last year we went for beers before I began working on DeckTales, and he wouldn't shut up about ship life!

So he could be considered an ember that sparked my creative ambitions.

Enjoy!

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JD worked on a ship with me during my first contract back in 2006, but his decade long career is a 50/50 split, between working in photography/videography and shore excursions.

In this episode you will learn how to lower your expectations when venturing out on a land booked trip, how to sleep through an onboard fire, and what happens after you hit an iceberg.

You may also learn a thing or two about the positives covid had on the industry, as well as 'where da food at'.

JD had his guard up during this episode, so it took a fair bit of inquisitive probing to get any decent stories out of him.

So he could be considered an ember that sparked my creative ambitions.

Enjoy!

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Previous Episode

Ep17: Liam Edwards - Former British Royal Navy Officer Cadet

Liam and I have been acquainted over the years with thanks to our many days spent working together as TV and film extras.

We did reminisce briefly about some of the productions we have both worked on together, but the main focus of today's episode, was to get a bit more of an insight into the Royal Navy.

Liam spent four years as an officer cadet, and recounted various tales from his time during training, being away at sea on deployment, remembrance day parades, nauseous voyages and tracking down the Russians.

I wanted to keep the door open on DeckTales to not only look behind the scenes of the cruise ship industry, but other types of maritime career as well.

Hopefully this will mean that mariners of many other backgrounds will feel the show has more to offer, and who knows, maybe one day they'll reach out to be a guest in the future.

As my own background lies heavily in the cruise ship industry, a lot of my contacts do stem from there, but as the show grows, I hope it can grow roots and spread to other niches within the shipping sector.

Enjoy!

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Next Episode

Ep19: Krista Thomas - Former Front Desk Staff and Guest Relations Manager

Krista used to work on a number of different vessels within the cruise industry over a six year period. At first working on the front desk, and progressed her way up to guest relations manager.

She now works in Vancouver on the ferries responsible for similar albeit not as stressful duties, and the pair of us connected over Facebook page 'The Crew Bar', where she and a few others work to keep crew members from around the world connected, in a light hearted and meme friendly manner.

In addition to this, Krista has been working hard to get another page (crewscritics) up and running, which

provides anonymous posting so that crew can review their companies without fear of reprisals. This episode you can expect to hear some difficult subject matter, so viewer discretion is advised.

Other than that, she had a nice collection of stories to balance out some of the darker parts of her past, and she is so amazing to have come on and shared her story, because she and I want others to hear about it, so if they have experienced something similar, then they will know they are not alone.

Enjoy!

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