Merchant Navy

Does anyone know anything about the Merchant Navy? It appeals to me but I'm unsure about how to get into it - I've looked at careersatsea.org and it mentions training after A-Levels where you are sponsored through a foundation degree, and graduate entry if you have a degree in nautical engineering or whatever, but I'm currently studying Archaeology, which isn't related (and I don't want to change). So how would that work? I don't understaaaand :confused:

Also, does anyone know of any work experience opportunities?

TIA :biggrin:

Reply 1

geetar

If you want to join as a deck officer, then they will want you to have joined as a cadet staright from school, and not be doing a degree (epspecially in something as unrelated as archaeology).

You could whack off some e-mails to a few companies, but I think you'll just get the above response. Sorry.

Reply 2

Jono_Prior

i thought it looks mint aswell

basically tho i thought ud go straight to being on a massive tanker and going to hawaii n what not lol but nah u will be trained on a daft ship as deck hand i think and thats after, what is it 6 months or something, at college

Reply 3

mark1010

The course is basically 3 years long and consists of periods at college and periods at sea gaining experience. I tried it for a bit though realised it wasn't for me, however there were people there who had been to university first. Not sure why though, as basically you have to spend another 3 years as a student (although you do get paid a little!)

Check out companies such as Shell, BP, Maersk and some cruise ship companies as they all run cadet schemes.