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NOAA fleet guy checking in. I've sailed civilian and commissioned deck officer, and can answer questions about our ships, life on them, or whatever. Our ships and plants are smaller than almost any merchant ship, but we can do some fun things with them (walking them sideways to piers, holding station without any of that DP crap, etc.) It's a different side of the maritime world, and it's pretty drat fun.
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shovelbum posted:Do you have to be a scientist of some kind, or do they hire licensed deck and engineering guys whose background is just civilian maritime work? Nope, all of our deck & engineering guys are credentialed or licensed mariners. We have a few mates throughout the fleet, and all engineering officers are licensed. We also have ABs, OSes, Oilers, JUEs, and so on. Science is, on most ships, run by a scientific party supported by a survey tech who is part of the ship's company (and is, in the best cases, a skilled deck hand.)
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I've got a question for you guys regarding upgrades. I applied for, and got, my 100GRT license from NMC about a month ago, using my service time in lieu of documented days at sea. All of my sea time is as JOOD/OOD on ~1600 ton vessels. Can I apply for an upgrade to a bigger ticket right now, or have those days been used to feed the great paperwork-eating, credential-pooping monster that is NMC? Maybe it's a simple question, but I can't find any guidance on NMC's site about this sort of thing.
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