Women grab the helm in the maritime world, mooring in a male domain

Svetlana Timm-Vengerov was just 17 years old when she went to sea for the first time. Her journey began with a flight from Germany to South Korea, where she headed for the harbour city of Busan and boarded a ship. "Of course, it was a really impressive feeling and experience at first, because you couldn't really know what to expect," she says looking back, now 30 years old. Timm-Vengerov travelled across the Pacific to North and Central America and then back to Asia, in a six week journey - the

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