The Seafarers’ Museum (working name)

Intramuros, Manila

Initial Presentation
17 April 2023
Vision:
A 21st century museum that recognizes and honors the Filipino seafarers’ role not only in the
maritime industry but in our global society. Seafarers are our nation’s extraordinary heroes.

Mission:
Through videos, photos, artifacts and visual aids, to increase appreciation of the seafarers by
showcasing the complex and crucial role they play in the maritime industry and how they sacrifice
their comfort and well-being, sometimes even their lives for humanity.
Objectives:
In eight months, the creation of a museum that tells stories of seafarers and their sacrifices to
make our lives better. The stories will be shown in monitors inside the museum.
In eight months, visitors to the museum will understand and appreciate better the vital role
that seafarers have in our global society.
In eight months, the museum will have exhibits on display showcasing the different kinds of
jobs seafarers, their organization and their uniforms.
In eight months, visitors to the museum will have learned more about Captain Gregorio Oca,
his life and his role in AMOSUP and the different benefits he worked hard for for the seafarers.
Objectives:
In eight months, two game consoles for marine navigational simulators will be installed in the
museum for visitors to have an idea of the complexities and challenges of sea navigation.
By the end of 2023, the seafarers, members of AMOSUP, will feel honored and appreciated by
the visitors to the museum and the surrounding community.
By the end of 2024, no less than 20 elementary and high schools will have visited the museum
and learned to appreciate and honor our seafarers and see them as role models in our society.
By the end of 2024 no less than 8 Maritime schools will have visited the museum and learned to
appreciate the role AMOSUP plays in the lives of seafarers.
Strategies:
To promote a better understanding of the life of seafarers while on board ships, interviews and videos
will be made and shown on monitors in the museum.

To increase appreciation of the hardships and sacrifices the seafarers make while on the job, visual
aids, videos, letters and other materials will be on display in the museum.

A museum visit program initiative to the different schools around the museum to promote better
understanding and appreciation of seafarers and the maritime industry in general.

To promote better understanding about themselves in collaboration with Seamen's Village and GASFI,
a seafarer and families’ program initiative will be organized.

Regular exhibits devoted to the creative output by seafarers through art, photography and other
related disciplines will be installed to promote their worth not only to himself/ herself but also to the
public.
 Proposed Names:

Museo ng Buhay Marino (The Seafarer’s Life Museum)

Ang Marino - Pambihirang Bayani (The Seafarer - An Extraordinary Hero)
Museo Mandaragat (The Seafarer’s Museum)
The Museum Floor Plan
Area 1
Entrance to the Museum
Reception Wall
Reception Desk
The Heroes of the Sea
Home Away From Home
Our Stories
Our Journey to the Seas
How To Drive at Sea
The Moving Spirit - Kap Oca
Telling Our Story
Area 2
Our Artistic Side
Systems for Our Art
ANG MANDARAGAT
PAMBIHIRANG
BAYANI
AUDIO AND VIDEO
OBJECTIVE

TO PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE

LIFE SEAFARERS HAVE WHILE ON BOARD SHIP,
INTERVIEWS AND VIDEOS WILL BE MADE AND
SHOWN ON MONITORS IN THE MUSEUM.

TO INCREASE APPRECIATION OF THE HARDSHIP AND

SACRIFICES THE SEAFARERS DO WHILE ON THE JOB,
VISUAL AIDS, VIDEOS WILL BE DISPLAY IN THE
MUSUEM.
LIFE AT SEA
BUHAY MANDARAGAT

IN THIS VIDEO PRESENTION, WE WILL SHOW A PHOTO

AND VIDEO COLLAGE OF SEAFARER'S LIFE AT SEA -
WHILE TRAINING
AS LEADER (CAPTAIN, CHIEF ENGINEER)
AS A FAMILY MAN
AS A SON

THIS IS THEIR STORY, THEIR LIFE AT SEA.

SUCCESS STORIES
BINAGO ANG BUHAY DAHIL SA DAGAT

TO BRING MORE INSPIRATION, WE WILL FEATURE

DIFFERENT SUCCESS STORIES OF SEAFARERS.
IN THIS VIDEO WE WILL FOCUS ON HOW THIS CAREER
CHANGED THEIR LIFE AND THEIR FAMILIES' LIFE.

SAMPLE STORIES
• FROM A HUMBLE SEAMAN TO BUSINESSMAN
• A FATHER NA NAPAGTAPOS ANG LAHAT NG MGA
ANAK.
• A CAPTAIN NA NAG-START NA SA PINAKA-MABABANG
RANK
BUILDING DREAMS
FEATURE ON MARITIME ACADEMY OF ASIA AND
THE PACIFIC.

A FEATURE ON MAAP WHERE THE DREAMS OF FUTURE

SEAFARERS ARE MADE.
WE WILL INTERVIEW MAAP STUDENTS TO KNOW WHY
THEY WANT TO BE A SEAFARER IN THE FUTURE.

WE WILL ALSO FEATURE THE TRAININGS THEY UNDERGO

TO BECOME A SEAFARER.

AN INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSORS/TEACHERS WHO WAS

ONCE A SEAFARER AND NOW SHARING HIS/HER
LEARNINGS TO STUDENTS
MGA MARINA NG
DAGAT
IN A MALE-DOMINATED INDUSTRY - HINDI NAGPAPAHULI
ANG MGA FILIPINA SEAWOMAN SA TRABAHONG ITO.

IN A VIDEO INTERVIEW WE WILL FEATURE PROUD

FILIPINAS NA NAKIKIPAGSABAY SA TRABAHONG SINASABI
NG IBA AY "PANG-LALAKI"

WE WILL ALSO FEATURE MAAP FEMALE STUDENTS - TO

KNOW WHY THEY DECIDED TO TAKE THIS COURSE.
INTERESTING
STORIES
WE WILL ALSO FEATURE MORE INTERESTING SEAFARERS'
STORIES SUCH AS:
• FAMILY OF SEAFARERS - MULA AMA HANGGANG MGA
ANAK, NAGING SEAMAN.
• NAKAHANAP NG LOVE LIFE WHILE ON THE SEA
• FEATURE ON SEAMAN'S VILLAGE AND TOWN NA
PURO SEAMAN (QUEZON PROVINCE)
• SEAFARERS NA NAGING FAMOUS DAHIL SA TIKTOK AT
SOCIAL MEDIA
THE WOMAN
BEHIND...
THE SUCCESS OF A SEAFARER
PEOPLE ALWAYS RELATE A FAMILY OF A SEAFARER WITH
A SUCCESSFUL AND GOOD LIFE, SINCE IT IS KNOWN
THAT JOBS AT SEA PAY WELL. BUT A SEAFARER'S SUCCESS
IS NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF HIS HARD WORK, SACRIFICES,
AND DEDICATION. BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF A SEAMAN IS
AN UNDERSTANDING AND DEDICATED WIFE

IN THIS VIDEO WE WILL INTERVIEW A SEAFARER'S WIFE

AND HOW SHE HANDLES LDR AND KEEPING THEIR
FAMILY TOGETHER.
THE MOVING SPIRIT...
A special video
biography of Captain
“Kap” Oca
A seafarer. A maritime union leader…a man who lived
with honor and integrity…his vision has touched and
improved lives.
A story dedicated to a man whose heart was always in
the right place…a heart as deep and limitless as the sea.
CAPTAIN “KAP” OCA
VIDEO TREATMENT
INTERVIEW VIDEOS CAN BE INTERVIEW VIDEOS ARE
2-5 MINUTES LONG HEARTFELT AND RELATABLE.

SHORT VIDEOS TO FEATURE STORIES TO BE FEATURE ARE

FUN LIFE AT SEA CAN BE 1-3 INTERESTING AND
MINUTES INFORMATIVE.
Thank you!
Showing videos is an effective and contemporary way to explain the life of the seafarer. We are
proposing to shoot 30 new ones for the museum. Some of these are:

A collage video of the seafarers’ life at sea, while training, as leaders (captain, chief
engineer,etc,) on board ship, or as a family man.

One on one interviews of:

A captain
A lower rank seafarer
An engineer
A young person studying to be a seafarer ( we shoot this in MAAP)
A retired seafarer
An employer or teacher/professor, who was once a seafarer
Children of seafarers and how they feel about seafaring profession
A wife of a seafarer
A waiter from a cruise ship
And other seafarer personalities with their stories to illustrate the many sides of seafaring.
For the video of Kap Oca:

Interview of his children. ( to show him as a father)

Interview of persons who worked under him or for him. (to show him as a Captain)
Interview of persons who worked under him or for him. (as Head of the Union.)
Interview of people from Maritime industry, MARINA, etc. ( to show he was a leader in the
industry)
Interview of other persons important to tell his story.
For the videos located in the “Looking Out Into the Horizon,” interviews with:

Dr. Oca and and his plans (AMOSUP) for the future of seafarers, 2050 and beyond
A head of a shipping company and member of the union
The head of MARINA, the government agency in charge of maritime matters.
The head of MAAP and how he prepares the seafarers for the future.
Ms. Marissa OCA , Head of Gold Foundation, another organization concerned with
the seafarer’s’ welfare and their future.
Other personalities concerned with the welfare of the seafarer.

Others:
A shoot in MAAP, Mariveles to show the school and its facilities.
A shoot in the Seaman’s Village.
A shoot the Hospital and other infrastructures AMOSUP has put up for the benefit of the
seafarer.