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Madeline-Habib-IWD-2019Transcript
[Image appears of Madeleine Habib smiling at the camera with a harbour in the background and text appears: Madeleine Habib, Ship’s Captain]
Madeleine Habib: I’m Madeleine Habib.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
I’m a Ship’s Captain and I was the former captain of Southern Surveyor, CSIRO’s research vessel.
[Image changes to show Madeleine looking out over the harbour and the camera zooms in on her profile]
I’ve always been drawn to a kind of maritime environment but I didn’t actually go sailing until I was 22.
[Image changes to show a rear view of Madeleine looking out over the harbour and then the image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
I went with my stepfather just on a social sailing trip in the Whitsundays and I was enchanted. Suddenly I’d found this kind of mix of physical and mental challenge and I felt really confident that that was what I wanted to pursue.
[Image changes to show Madeleine steering a yacht and then the image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
In my first few years at sea I was working mostly on yachts and traditional boats and everybody just assumed that I was the cook and I really, I did resent that. I felt like it shouldn’t just be assumed that because I was a young woman on a boat that that was the only role that was open to me.
[Camera zooms in on Madeleine talking to the camera]
So, when I returned to Australia and I’d managed to scrape together enough qualifying sea service I went for my first Captain’s License.
[Image changes to show Madeleine in the bridge of the ship and then Madeleine smiling in the ship’s bridge]
Women currently represent less than 1% of the total number of seafarers in Australia and when you look at deck officers and captains that number is even smaller.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
I wanted to be taken seriously in the maritime industry.
[Image changes to show Madeleine looking at a book about the Southern Surveyor ship and then the image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
One of the fondest memories I have of working on the Southern Surveyor was as captain leaving the port of Hobart.
[Image changes to show the side of the Southern Surveyor ship at dock and the camera zooms in on the name painted on the ship’s side]
For me it felt like such a landmark occasion to be the captain of a ship leaving from my home port.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera and then the image changes to show the Southern Surveyor moving out to sea]
Even having my husband on the dock waving goodbye as I pulled away from the shore and drove out down the Derwent, it felt like a really special moment in my seafaring career.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera and then the image changes to show a diagram of the Investigator on a computer screen]
The Investigator is much larger than the Southern Surveyor.
[Image changes to show Madeleine and another male walking through the Investigator and looking around it]
She’s an impressive ship and she has a wonderful crew and one day I would really like to be part of that. Looking around the Investigator.
[Image changes to show Madeleine and the male in the bridge of the ship in conversation and then the camera zooms in on a computer screen they are looking at]
I’m really impressed at the layout of the vessel and the obvious consideration and consultation that’s gone in to making sure that this ship really is appropriate for marine science.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera and then the image changes to show a Greenpeace ship on the ocean]
I am drawn to working on ships that have a purpose, whether it’s scientific research, supply vessels going to Antarctica, Greenpeace ships.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
I’ve worked on a medical ship in Papua New Guinea. I want my work to have purpose.
[Image changes to show a view of the ocean and then the image changes to show Madeleine inside the bridge of the ship and then the image changes to show the ship on the ocean]
Being a captain, it’s not always easy and there are times when you are literally making decisions that affect the survival of the people on board the vessel.
[Image changes to show Madeleine on the deck of a ship looking down at migrants in a lifeboat and then the image changes to show the Madeleine talking to the migrants on the deck of the ship]
I’ve been working in migrant rescue in the Mediterranean and there you’re not only caring for the safety of the people that you have on board as your crew, you can be responsible for up to 500 people who have been rescued.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
To young women I would like to say that life at sea is worth considering. It is a viable career.
[Image changes to show Madeleine and a male on a boat on the ocean with an iceberg in the background and then the camera zooms in on Madeleine smiling]
There are a lot of options out there and one of those options might be working on a marine research vessel.
[Images move through to show Madeleine looking down, Madeleine steering the ship, Madeleine smiling at the camera, and Madeleine and crew members smiling at the camera]
I’ve certainly enjoyed a very rewarding career at sea and I think it’s really important to believe in your own potential and to only be limited by your imagination.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
Don’t let other people or other ideas impose limitations on what you’re capable of doing.
[Music plays and text appears: Marine National Facility]
[Credits appear: Produced by Ella Kennedy, Camera and Editing by Lara Van Raay, Additional Photos, Medicins San Frontieres, Bruce Miller, Colin Cosier, Edwina Hollander, David Killick, Greenpeace, With thanks to, Madeleine Habib, The MNF Ship Operations Group, The Crew of the RV Investigator, Oceans & Atmosphere, Engineering and Technology Group]
[CSIRO logo and text appears: CSIRO, Australia’s innovation catalyst]
Madeleine Habib: I’m Madeleine Habib.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
I’m a Ship’s Captain and I was the former captain of Southern Surveyor, CSIRO’s research vessel.
[Image changes to show Madeleine looking out over the harbour and the camera zooms in on her profile]
I’ve always been drawn to a kind of maritime environment but I didn’t actually go sailing until I was 22.
[Image changes to show a rear view of Madeleine looking out over the harbour and then the image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
I went with my stepfather just on a social sailing trip in the Whitsundays and I was enchanted. Suddenly I’d found this kind of mix of physical and mental challenge and I felt really confident that that was what I wanted to pursue.
[Image changes to show Madeleine steering a yacht and then the image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
In my first few years at sea I was working mostly on yachts and traditional boats and everybody just assumed that I was the cook and I really, I did resent that. I felt like it shouldn’t just be assumed that because I was a young woman on a boat that that was the only role that was open to me.
[Camera zooms in on Madeleine talking to the camera]
So, when I returned to Australia and I’d managed to scrape together enough qualifying sea service I went for my first Captain’s License.
[Image changes to show Madeleine in the bridge of the ship and then Madeleine smiling in the ship’s bridge]
Women currently represent less than 1% of the total number of seafarers in Australia and when you look at deck officers and captains that number is even smaller.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
I wanted to be taken seriously in the maritime industry.
[Image changes to show Madeleine looking at a book about the Southern Surveyor ship and then the image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
One of the fondest memories I have of working on the Southern Surveyor was as captain leaving the port of Hobart.
[Image changes to show the side of the Southern Surveyor ship at dock and the camera zooms in on the name painted on the ship’s side]
For me it felt like such a landmark occasion to be the captain of a ship leaving from my home port.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera and then the image changes to show the Southern Surveyor moving out to sea]
Even having my husband on the dock waving goodbye as I pulled away from the shore and drove out down the Derwent, it felt like a really special moment in my seafaring career.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera and then the image changes to show a diagram of the Investigator on a computer screen]
The Investigator is much larger than the Southern Surveyor.
[Image changes to show Madeleine and another male walking through the Investigator and looking around it]
She’s an impressive ship and she has a wonderful crew and one day I would really like to be part of that. Looking around the Investigator.
[Image changes to show Madeleine and the male in the bridge of the ship in conversation and then the camera zooms in on a computer screen they are looking at]
I’m really impressed at the layout of the vessel and the obvious consideration and consultation that’s gone in to making sure that this ship really is appropriate for marine science.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera and then the image changes to show a Greenpeace ship on the ocean]
I am drawn to working on ships that have a purpose, whether it’s scientific research, supply vessels going to Antarctica, Greenpeace ships.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
I’ve worked on a medical ship in Papua New Guinea. I want my work to have purpose.
[Image changes to show a view of the ocean and then the image changes to show Madeleine inside the bridge of the ship and then the image changes to show the ship on the ocean]
Being a captain, it’s not always easy and there are times when you are literally making decisions that affect the survival of the people on board the vessel.
[Image changes to show Madeleine on the deck of a ship looking down at migrants in a lifeboat and then the image changes to show the Madeleine talking to the migrants on the deck of the ship]
I’ve been working in migrant rescue in the Mediterranean and there you’re not only caring for the safety of the people that you have on board as your crew, you can be responsible for up to 500 people who have been rescued.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
To young women I would like to say that life at sea is worth considering. It is a viable career.
[Image changes to show Madeleine and a male on a boat on the ocean with an iceberg in the background and then the camera zooms in on Madeleine smiling]
There are a lot of options out there and one of those options might be working on a marine research vessel.
[Images move through to show Madeleine looking down, Madeleine steering the ship, Madeleine smiling at the camera, and Madeleine and crew members smiling at the camera]
I’ve certainly enjoyed a very rewarding career at sea and I think it’s really important to believe in your own potential and to only be limited by your imagination.
[Image changes to show Madeleine talking to the camera]
Don’t let other people or other ideas impose limitations on what you’re capable of doing.
[Music plays and text appears: Marine National Facility]
[Credits appear: Produced by Ella Kennedy, Camera and Editing by Lara Van Raay, Additional Photos, Medicins San Frontieres, Bruce Miller, Colin Cosier, Edwina Hollander, David Killick, Greenpeace, With thanks to, Madeleine Habib, The MNF Ship Operations Group, The Crew of the RV Investigator, Oceans & Atmosphere, Engineering and Technology Group]
[CSIRO logo and text appears: CSIRO, Australia’s innovation catalyst]