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Episode 2: Meet the Sailors

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Getting Off the Boat

When you spend 80 % of your life on a ship, doesn't matter what you're doing on land. You just want off the boat. The guys have just run a standard shipping route. They load it up in yang shen, the deep water port near shanghai and headed across the pacific to en california. Once they leave oakland, they won't see the west coast of north america for another six weeks. He'll spend up to eight months on the seas before going home for a break,. more than half a year away from his family.

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