Ambassador Ade

Welcome to the Women Offshore Podcast.

I'm your host, Christine McMullen.

I'm here with a beautiful guest calling in from Cartagena, Spain.

So please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself.

Well, thank you so much, Christine.

Really nervous, but I'm so happy and honor that you guys have me here.

Well, so quick introduction.

My name is Arez Solorzano.

I'm a deck officer from Mexico.

Right now working as a captain on an NGO vessel, which is moored in Cartagena, Spain.

I can talk to you about, like, my beginnings, where I-

Yeah

... studied my career.

I studied nautical science on Mexico.

In Mexico, we have three schools.

The only school and the oldest one in Latin America, it's the school where, where I went to, which I'm really proud.

It's in the Pacific coast of Mexico in, right in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, which I'm from, which where I'm from too.

So it's a lovely university.

It's, uh, an, like an internship.

We live inside the school, so it's pretty cool 'cause you get used to, like, being away from home, living with your colleagues, right? I study four years, and I made one, one year of practice.

I started as a, as a deck cadet on tankers, so which I love.

I'm in love of tankers.

I love the operations, the safety, everything.

I think that's what, like, give me my whole background o- or the, what make me like the officer, the captain that I'm now.