{"id":9445,"date":"2020-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=9445"},"modified":"2020-07-01T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:34:13","slug":"captain-harry-subramaniam-seafarer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=9445","title":{"rendered":"Captain Harry Subramaniam, seafarer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Captain_Harry_Subramaniam.jpeg?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><\/p><p>Captain Harry Subramaniam, one of the most influential people in Indian seafarer training circles, died on June 29, 2020. from Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have been paid all day to Captain Harry Subramaniam, whose eight books on seafaring served as a cornerstone in Indian maritime education for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Subramaniam was born in 1942 in Ootacamund in the Nilagiri Hills of south India. He went to sea for much of the 1960s, before returning ashore determined to shake up the maritime education scene.<\/p>\n<p>During Subramaniam\u2019s early days as a lecturer at the L.B.S. Nautical College, his mother, Vijaya, saw his dismay as he had to refer to one book for instruments, another for coding and decoding weather reports, another for tropical meteorology and yet another for temperate latitude weather, all just to teach meteorology. One day, she asked him, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you write a book of your own?\u201d She took a loan from a bank to publish the first book, Practical Navigation and with that Vijaya Publications was born, with the ideology that everything can be made concisely available in a nutshell as the series of eight books became known.<\/p>\n<p>Latterly Subramaniam also worked as a marine examinations adviser with the Marshall Islands Ship Registry.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Rajesh Unni, the founder of Singapore ship manager Synergy Group, tweeted how Subramaniam had left a legacy as a mentor to generations of seafarers.<\/p>\n<p>Zarir Irani, managing director at Constellation Marine Surveyors, described Subramaniam on social media as a \u201cguru, an inspiration, a humble human being, a legend with professionalism and integrity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On LinkedIn, Subramaniam\u2019s son, Hari, who works for the Shipowners\u2019 Club in Singapore, wrote: \u201cHope your new voyage to Heaven is as smooth a sailing as your devoted selflessness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Splash247.com<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Harry Subramaniam, one of the most influential people in Indian seafarer training circles, died on June 29, 2020. from Covid-19. Tributes have been paid all day to Captain Harry Subramaniam, whose eight books on seafaring served as a cornerstone in Indian maritime education for decades. Subramaniam was born in 1942 in Ootacamund in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,46,7019],"tags":[7915,1051,114,5746,113,792,6710,6082,6709,6224,7917,7916,6434,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Captain_Harry_Subramaniam.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3119,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3119","url_meta":{"origin":9445,"position":0},"title":"Harry Aarts, politician","date":"March 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Henricus Johannes Bernardus \"Harry\" Aarts \u2013a Dutch politician \u2013 died due to Covid-19 on 25 March 2020. \u00a0 He served in the House of Representatives for the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal from 23 January 1973 until 1 October 1993. \u00a0 Aarts was born in 's-Hertogenbosch\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Netherland&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9785,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=9785","url_meta":{"origin":9445,"position":1},"title":"Antonio Francisco Lacera Ochoa, Firefighter","date":"May 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Antonio Francisco Lacera Ochoa \u2013 a Firefighter, Captain in Guayaquil, Ecuador \u2013 passed away after suffering from COVID-19. 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