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Welcome on Board !
I will take you on a trip around the world, showing you the beauty of seafaring and my lifestyle.
I will take you on a trip around the world, showing you the beauty of seafaring and my lifestyle.
I will take you on a trip around the world, showing you the beauty of seafaring and my lifestyle.
My name is Maurice and I am 1st Lieutenant in the German Navy. After studying Nautical Science and Maritime Transport to become a captain on merchant ships I came back on board of a German Warship to continue my career in the Navy. Since April 2016 I am blogging about my life being a seafarer and my healthy lifestyle as a fitness athlete. Besides many fitness tips you will find blogs about seafaring and my journeys around the world.
Fair winds and following seas!
The beauty of seafaring is tremendous! Let me take you on a trip through my navy career showing you my responsibilities on board and see if you got what it takes to be a seafarer.
I love to go places in my spare time. My life goal is to travel the whole world with all its various cultures and people because the more you travel, the more you develop your character as a human.
I am a committed person who is constantly looking for new challenges to accept and pursue. If we don’t change we don’t grow and if we don’t grow we’re not really living.
In this section I will share my fitness experience with you. I will tell you how a small skinny boy from the village turned into not so skinny, how he won his first national title, continued to compete internationally and finally start to coach his own athlete team.
– Maurice Laaß
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Here are some questions I get asked quite a bit
I grew up in a small village on the countryside in Lower Saxony, Germany.
I was always fascinated by the sea and ships in general, but my goal to become a captain raised, when I was already in the Navy for three years and started my career as an officer.
I started to workout when I was 14 years old
When I was in my last year on high school I got a letter by the government for the aptitude test to join the military service of the Armed Forces which was mandatory in Germany up to 2011. The test consisted of various medical examinations, knowledge test and a psychological interview. I passed all tests and because I was suitable for heights I got a military advisor from the Navy who told me about the Training Sailing Ship GORCH FOCK. Read more in my blog: “My first miles in the Navy”
Since my passion besides seafaring is bodybuilding and fitness I would probably run my own gym.
Yes it definitely is for everyone but it became much easier to stay in contact with someone while being at sea than it was 10 years ago. When I was at sea for the first time I hold contact via letters because we hadn’t good satellite service to send mails. There was one computer for 180 crew members, so if we had service it took ours to get the chance to write a mail to your loved ones. I think the most important part of a relationship is communication and it gets even more important when you’re in a situation above so you have to find ways and identify possibilities.
Nautical Science and Maritime Transport
I travelled 107 cities in 42 countries on four continents so far. Some of them with the Navy but also on my own because I love to travel.
It’s very hard to decide for just one place on earth since there are so many beautiful places. But if I have to choose one I would choose a place of my childhood in Locarno – an Italian speaking city in Switzerland on a lake called Lago Maggiore.
I’ve never been seasick on my deployments in the Navy but I did a catamaran tour with my parents as a kid and I got very sick when I went into the keel to watch the whales and dolphins. That was the only time I felt seasick.