Shipping

By Lisa Overing 09-29-2020 10:07:02

Going to school to maintain seafarer credentials for licensing requirements has changed. Used to be that sailors actually returned to port after their hitch was up and attended school while on vacation or rotation. In school, they sat in a classroom with other shipmates and had a smoke and a beer after school (something planned at the lunch table). That much was universally true whether a sailor worked on a cruise ship, oil tanker, container vessel, barge, tug, megayacht or...