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Whether you are just starting or are already working in the Maritimes, we are here to guide you toward seafaring excellence.
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We’ll help you answer questions like:
“What kind of maritime work do I want to do?”
“What credentials do I need to obtain?”
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Obtain your Merchant Mariner Credential
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Course information
We offer a full range of USCG-approved courses and academic services for Professional Mariner training and certification.
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Basic Training: Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities
Provides the mariner with an overview of basic knowledge in maritime personal safety, accident and pollution prevention and social responsibility, including the requirements of a substance free lifestyle. Includes understanding principles that will ensure a safe working environment and safe work practices through adherence to guiding law, regulation, policies and procedures.
Time duration: 7 hours
Investment: $400 list
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Basic Training: Personal Survival Techniques
Provides the mariner with basic maritime skills and knowledge to maximize the probability for survival at sea. This includes use of survival appurtenances and personal gear, actions to be taken in the event of an emergency, and skills that enhance the probability of survival at sea.
Time duration: 14 hours
Investment: $800 list
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Basic Training: Fire Prevention and Fighting
Provides the mariner with basic maritime skills and knowledge to prevent and fight fires aboard ship. This includes understanding fire theory, action to be taken to prevention and combat fires, skills for fighting fires with fixed and portable systems, and mariners roll on a ships fire-fighting team.
Time duration: 16 hours
Investment: $800 list
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Basic Training: First Aid and CPR
Provides the mariner with foundational knowledge and understanding of first aid practices to administer immediate life-saving first-aid. This includes treatment of bleeding, limb fracture, severe burns and patient transport, and skills in basic life support (CPR) and proper use of AED.
Time duration: 8 hours
Invesment: $400 list
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Vessel Personnel with Designated Security Duties
Provides the mariner with foundational knowledge of shipboard security knowledge, responsibilities and proficiency in order to fulfill security duties on board a vessel. Incudes understanding threat, recognition and response in drills, exercises and live response that affect the ships security actions.
Time duration: 8 hours
Investment: $400 list
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Basic Training Refresher
Required for the mariner who does NOT have 1 year sea time in the past 5 years. Provides the professional mariner with a refresher of basic maritime personal survival techniques, personal social and safety responsibilities, first aid, and fire prevention and firefighting skills.
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Basic Training Revalidation
Required for the mariner who HAS 1 year sea time in the past 5 years. Provides the professional mariners with a refresher of basic maritime personal survival and fire prevention/firefighting skills. Includes demonstration of skills in proper use of fire-fighting equipment and life-saving appurtenances and personal gear.
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Able Bodied Seafarer
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100 Ton Master
Coming soon
Here’s what you can expect:
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Provides the mariner with skills and knowledge to acquire the STCW Rating for Forming Part of a Navigation Watch. Using a bridge simulator, will be able to steer the ship and comply with helm orders, keep a proper lookout, and contribute to a safe bridge watch team.
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Bridge Resource Management
Engine Resource Management
Advanced Fire Fighting
Advanced Fire Fighting Refresher
Advanced Fire Fighting Revalidation
Personal Survival Craft
Personal Survival Craft Refresher
Personal Survival Craft Revalidation
Terrestrial Navigation
Celestial Navigation
Operator of Uninspected Power Vessel