Fishing boats, container ships … when women take the sea

In France, only 2% of fishermen are women, 3% of them work on containers. In 20 years on the oceans, Maud Nicolas has passed through San Francisco (United States), Chile or Antarctica. Her work is at the heart of the boat: she is a mechanical head.

She alternates two months of rest on the ground and two months at sea. Once on board, she watches over the machines seven days a week. “The ship has no Sunday“, she recalls. She is the only woman in the ship. “Often, when I embark, I am told: you are the cook? But it goes quickly … If I am a mechanic chief, they have to work with me”she smiles. If many women throw in the towel after having become mom, Maud, mother of two, wanted to take over the sea six months after childbirth.

Camille Brigant, she fishs the scallop in the bay of Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor). “I wanted to do a job where we were not bored. A man’s job, we’re going to say. Here we are served”says the young woman. His job is physical, often in the cold. “”You should not underestimate a woman! We are as capable as men to do a job like that“She said. On her boat, she won respect for her colleagues.

Once at the port, she gets packed by certain colleagues. “”They laugh well, but in the meantime, I’m here “, she replied proudly.

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