The Mediterranean shores or the Artic waters – DMET Engineers can match up to any given destination. The change of seasons has never bothered them. They’ve always had the sacred tradition of looking up to the wide ocean as their closest mate. Worldwide, the harbours and ports are their temples. Good, clean, hardworking sweat and a long crawl into a ship’s bottom are the sturdy pointers of their exciting and tough careers. They ride the waves with open challenges. They have always loved challenges. The challenge of maintaining safety rules for voyages. The challenge of making the ship sail on time. The challenge of protecting the fleet, crew, cargo from pirate-attacks. Keeping the engine-room in response to their command, always.
Start the engines!
In the spotlight mingling with nostalgia and affection – DMET – Alumni Annual Get-Together was held at Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai, on the evening of October 22nd 2010. DMET stands for: The Directorate of Marine Engineering Training and it is regarded as India’s oldest and best known Marine Engineering College for Training. Now, it has been renamed as MERI – The Marine Engineering and Research Institute. The formal beginnings of Marine Engineering Training started in 1927 on board the Training Ship Dufferin. With changing times and demands, the entire process of training students has gone part by part into a newer mode of healthy revamping. Today, the Indian Marine Engineers are the world’s ablest and heading in many spheres of managements – both offshore and onshore. Some of the world’s largest vessels are manned by Indian Marine Engineers. Pursuing their individual ambitions, quite a few have also been highly successful in accomplishing their own business-dreams by establishing workshops, shipyards, training-schools.
On the formula of getting together, the event of 22nd October 2010 provided a strong emotional experience for all of us. Personally, I too feel a close bond with the DMET Clan. The Institute is responsible for raising my husband where he is today. And that allows us both to feel proud and humble at the same time. He is very happy to achieve the honour of receiving the Award of Business Leader 2010. So am I! Thank you everybody. You make us rich. It was a great opportunity to have met so many people in one night under a common roof.
May prosperity and peace shine on our Maritime Fraternity. Happy Diwali to all of us.
