Shipboard training
It’s almost July and five weeks have passed since I’ve called this ship, my home. In the past two weeks, training has been the emphasis as many on board have taken seminar courses on this ship,on board other ships, or within a shore side facility.
I finished up my Chemical and Biological Officer’s course as I described, in my previous Merchant Express posting..and, no sooner, I was chosen among ten others to take another shipboard security course. You see, much of what is required on board government vessels are the vigilance of these on-going seminars that each mariner endures, so to prepare themselves for some type of disaster or casualty. Over the past seven years, I’ve taken no less than a dozen courses that teach and demonstrate certain security tactics which mostly help the interest of the mariners, aboard.. thereby, essentially, saving the ship.
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