£21k ???!!!!! For being second in Command of a multimillion pound asset and a priceless cargo. People really do under value themselves as A4 says.
That's what the paying public don't realise or care about. The person piloting the metal tube they are sitting in especially when anything goes wrong has minimal experience, is living on peanuts, usually running a second job to survive and running higher then ideal levels of Fatigue.
especially if /when something happens to their colleague
