Originally Posted by k3k3
How are you supposed to go on line or call the complaints desk when you're at sea?
Mrs Tar and her three children starve for lack of funds while A.B. Tar is incommunicado for three months in his steel tube under the oggin?
Most ships have connectivity via SCOT these days, but not on a continuous basis (unless you are on one of those lightweight carrier things - you should hear the whining when email goes down on there!). Making official calls via Inmarsat could get a little expensive as well!
Subs - there is a routine for comms out, but not if they are op-deployed.
Of course, under DPA the wife/partner is not entitled to phone the Help Desk and enquire about her husband's pay.....when Mrs Tar is cutting the Boss' b@llocks of with a rusty knife, they may reassess this side of the equation!