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TMA Decky Grad checking in. I did my commercial cruise in the OSV industry, graduated a little over a year ago and have been working on the larger OSV/MPSV's in the Gulf since then. Fire away.
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Guliani is HOT posted:Anyone here graduate from Texas Maritime Academy? That's probably where I would go. Has anyone here gone to any of the US maritime academies? What do you do, grab a degree and then join a union and just start applying for jobs? I went to Texas Maritime, graduated in December 09 with a 3rd Mates License and a B.S. in Marine Transportation. Most of my friends who joined a Union out of school didn't go anywhere with it; they just ended up at the companies hiring in the Gulf. In a year I work about six months (three weeks on/off), not including the various training classes I goto in my time off. As a decky working on a rig/drillship in the Gulf, I'm pulling about 130-140 a year, and that's for one of the lower paying drilling companies. Pants, Grandpa! fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Aug 4, 2011 |
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Yeah, I did my freshman and senior cruises on the Golden Bear, good times; absolute poo poo shows in every port we went to. I probably know a couple of the senior Texas students that were on there.
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It wasn't perfect but it wasn't horrible either; when I was on there we basically rotated between doing 1. Deck work, maintenance, soundings, going into tanks, hands on training, etc 2. Navigational Watches, where seniors were constantly taking fixes/azimuths/weather/all that good stuff while teaching the freshmen who were basically lookouts, and 3. Classroom time, which you could do onshore so that was kind of a wash We rotated between those about every five days and tried to do full celestial days everyday....it worked out alright.
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FrozenVent posted:Does that count toward your sea time, or is it on top of it? It sounds like a great way to do practical work in a structured environment (Vs the "enclosed space simulator" we had, aka the seamanship workshop's closet) but there's no cargo work involved, and you kind of miss out on the "time is money, get the gently caress moving" aspect. It counts as time and a half towards our sea time, so they're only two month cruises while our commercial cruise is three months. And technically, I believe they all do, but I know for Texas we don't have enough money to fix up our ship to make it usable, so we sail with Cal. I also think, not entirely sure, that the guys over at Kings Point solely do cruises with companies; apparently they have a training ship but not the kind used for training cruises.
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PowerJew posted:I just got hired on with Transocean one one of there drill ships in west africa. Couldn't be happier. The money is stupid good. One of my friends just got hired on with Transocean....we worked at a different drilling company and the awesome/weird thing is that Transocean and the company I work for pay the same but are the lowest paying drilling contractors out there....and the money is still loving amazing. Nowhere to go but up in the oilfield.
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