Thanks to Zaandam’s Robert Vlaardingerbroek for sending in this post on the crew’s Alaska tour.

Last month, Zaandam did some in-house spring cleaning under the supervision of Captain Andre van Schoonhoven. No locker was left unopened resulting in a huge amount of garbage and recyclables. As a token of appreciation for their hard work Zaandam’s entire Waste Handler team was sent on a tour in Ketchikan. With help from the Shore Excursions Manager Kevin Farwell and his team, the guys enjoyed a trip on board the crab fisher “Aleutian Ballad” during a Bearing Sea adventure tour.

Robert Vlaardingerbroek
First Engineer
Zaandam

Holding some of Alaska’s gold -- a Bearing Sea King Crab. From Left: Rudolf Elambo, tour operator from Aleutian Ballad, Ronald Beltran, Apolinario Gacela, Danilo Berin and Julius Basquinas.