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Dear Sir or Madam! My name is Sergey Bortnik. I was born in 1990 at the South of Ukraine. I grew up in the shipbuilding city Nikolayev. In 1997 I went to school and studied in the class with an intensive study of English language. I was constantly engaged in sports acrobatics, and received the title of candidate for master of sports. I also practiced swimming, football, karate, and chess. In 2005, I entered the Nikolayev Maritime School on the specialty of a sailor-motorman. During the summer, I had my first marine practice on the ship "Kashtan-20". For three months I have passed my first marine experience and got acquainted with the theory of vessel structure, the principle of the engine room, the wheelhouse. I tried to remember as much as possible what the boatswain with the Chief Officer explained to me In 2007, I graduated from the maritime school and got a diploma of a 1-st class sailor-motorman, and entered the Odessa Maritime Academy for the specialty navigator for correspondence study. From 2008 till 2009 I passed the military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the “Separate Regiment of the President of Ukraine". After the service I have started the searches of my first time vessel for work. And I have found it. After months of waiting, I received the offer to work in the position of OS on a quite an old tug. The navigating area was the coastal: Odessa, Illichevsk, Nikolayev, Kherson, but also there were foreign voyages to Bourgas (Bulgaria), Azov (Russia). Upon arrival, for me as a newcomer, the crew has conducted a full review and features of the vessel. They explained to me my duties and tasks in ship works and operations, my actions during alarms (MOB, General Alarm), the principles of life boats and life rafts launching and work. There was a lot of work since the vessel was not new and the owner did not pay much attention to her technical condition. The deck team and I chipped off the rust and prepared the surfaces for painting. During the passage through the Black Sea, I replaced the AB on the helm. Between moorages, mooring mechanisms maintaining, paintings and other sailor’s duties, at any opportunity, I visited the navigation bridge during my free time, communicated with the officers, and with the permission of the Master, I got acquainted with navigational equipment more detailed, applying knowledge achieved the study, learning more new and useful things. The time passed quickly and my contract ended. One day my friend from the army phoned me and offered me a job at sea - escorting ships in a dangerous zone (maritime security). And I decided to try as it was connected with marine activities. In the period from the end 2011 to March 2017 I worked on many ships (bulk carrier, tanker, chemical tankers, and gas carriers) as a team leader. I have been in almost every country in the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal area. I constantly carried the underway watch with OOW on the bridge, assisted the deck crew in preparing the vessel for the danger zone according to BMP 4. I constantly participated in alarms (General Alarm, MOB, anti-piracy alarm). Together with the Master I discussed the work in the High Risk Area, the Chief Officer and I, were responsible for all anti-piracy equipment, the citadel's equipment, the crew's action during the alarms. Since all the work was on the bridge, I was studying the work of the Officer on Watch, as well I got acquainted with the navigational equipment in more detail, learning more and more new and useful issues. Working as the security guard, I had more than 70 ships. But all this time I thought about working in the sea by my profession and after one of the contracts I decided to update the documents of the sailor and start to look for the vessel. So in May I was offered to work as an AB to at the dry-cargo ship. Upon arrival on the ship, I took full responsibility in my duties, began to study MARPOL namely where and how to dispose the garbage and what to do with the one that cannot be disposed, so for the first time I started to work with the Garbage management plan and garbage log book that was in management of a Chief Officer. I began studying the duties of Deck Ratings (watches, anchoring, port duties). I began to communicate closely with the Officers. I assisted the Officers and the Master in the work connected with the PC. I worked on the deck under the supervision of the boatswain, I carried out mooring operations on the forecastle and stern, did the ballast measurements, kept the underway watches as the helmsman and the look-out, and of course I performed the routine work of the sailor (chipping off the, painting, maintenance of deck mechanisms). But I did not stop improving. Completely accustomed to the deck, I received the permission of the Master to begin to study the officer's matters. And so, next to the Second Officer, I began to study the duties of Second Officer: checks, maintenance, LSA, underway watches, cargo operations. The first books that he gave me were LSA code and SOLAS. Page-by-page I studied the requirements of SOLAS to LSA, to the complete equipment of Life boats and life rafts, firefighting equipment, more than once I stood and studied the fire plan. And I received my new knowledge. I assisted him with the documents, namely, arrival/departure documents, familiarization check list, cabin cards, Muster list, fire extinguishers, fresh water replacement in life boats, the expiry date of pyrotechnics and rations in life boats monitoring; checks of the sea anchors in life boats. Then for the first time I personally held a radar reflector in my hands, I checked what is included in the set of fishing tackles. And all this was followed with my constant progress on SOLAS and LSA Code. I continued studying the already familiar MARPOL convention. I continued to realize and understand for myself all the matters and how they work. From that point this all began. I knew that I wanted to become an officer more quickly. The Second Officer gave me practical knowledge of my specialty for today. Together with him, we plotted the routs, did the charts, maintained the radio and navigational equipment, did the checks and tests, we passed with the other vessels, did the GMDSS equipment tests, filled in the bridge of the log books and this was my aim - to become the Second Officer Continuing to improve and gain experience, I am impatiently waiting for my next sea challenge! Contacts: If you are interested in my candidacy, you can contact me at any time: Mob: +38(063)820-46-37 Email: sergebortnik@gmail.com Skype: Bortnik_serge