“Even if I won the lottery, I would still come back here.”

This is where I work, this is where I was born, this is where I live, I love it. I would never leave here. Even if I won the lottery, I would still come back here. I got used to it. I simply love it. It is a fabulous area if you know how to discover it. If you know how to look for some beautiful details. I am a sailor, a pilot of the Maritime Danube.
I love water first and foremost. Water and, how should I say, this symbiosis between water and wind, which you have to master. For example, knowing when to go fishing. When the wind is too strong, you have nothing to do. Or you go for nothing. More than once I was ambitious, no, sir, because today I feel like going fishing, I defy nature. Of course, nature gives you a hard time. You go for nothing. Just like in the case of my job, in unfavorable weather, not all your maneuvers turn out well. But sometimes you have to do them.
When you’re in the ice, when the ship has started moving and the ice is somewhat cracked, so you’re making your way through the floes, you don’t allow yourself the luxury of slowing down. And you go further, you go at full speed. And sometimes you have reactions. The ice repels you and you can hit another ship that also doesn’t want to slow down, because it’s in the ice, for example. Or it can simply throw you onto the shore. It didn’t throw me onto the shore, but you can hit another ship. You experience great emotions. The Sulina Channel is the most dangerous, the narrowest. It’s deep but narrow. At least now, at the level of meetings, it’s a battle between 2 loaded maritime ships with 7 meters of cargo. It’s a great adventure. I even proposed to the administration to [go] one day in one direction, one day in the other, like the Bosphorus. They don’t want to, they’re ossified.