Took this to show my wife how I was doing. I am sure you can pick it apart, but I am pretty happy with my progress with just 50 sea days under my belt. I was hitting the bitt at about a 50% rate. I'll beat you guys to the punch...keep practicing. 🤣😆

I recently attended the San Jacinto Maritime center’s job fair in La Porte, and got in touch with various companies. To name a few, I applied to Buffalo, Enterprise, American Seafoods, and a few more. Do these companies actually take in a lot of guys from these fairs? I have my TWIC and am in the Dallas area, looking for any kind of advice on this. Anything helps, thanks in advance.

I’m interested in both in land and sea merchant I want to start with inland most likely but open to every and everything I just want to make a good career out of the opportunities. But any advice/Tips on the unions. What to expect or easier routs to get into that field

Good afternoon!

I'm an instructor at a maritime college that has an old Navy YTL tug that we are refurbishing for student use. Does anyone know where I can find deck plans for a 66' YTL from 1944? I've already talked to the Navy Yard she came from and they have nothing.

Thanks!

The NTSB report documents the tug response before impact. The tug Eric McAllister was 3.5 miles away and would have needed 16 minutes to reach the Dali [NTSB MIR-25-40, PDF p. 169, footnote 148]. What can the recorded distance and time tell us about the response window? I made a documentary from the NTSB report and its docket: https://youtu.be/bihvoGg5Vuw

I’m currently looking for entry-level deckhands for the south. I’m currently in Alabama and looking for places near Alabama. Doesn’t have to be in Alabama. These are jobs are currently applied for

Each Entry level deckhand job i applied for

Kirby=NA don't know if they will send me a email saying if they are going to hire me or not will see on Monday or sometime next week.
Blessey marine= Just applied
Parker towing application been in since Aug 31 calling tomorrow
Marquette applied will be calling tomorrow application been in Sep 28
American barge- denied due to me not residing in the north
Magnolia marine put in application on Oct 15 will follow up tomorrow
Cant work for Vane brother Don't have MMC Yet
cooper marine Denied
Cenac marine applied
enterprise marine currently not looking for a deckhand
campbell marine currently not looking for a deckhand

I had my interview call. It was 10 minutes I was supposed to receive a email saying if I passed or failed if I did fail anyone got any companies looking for a deckhand who is green

I'm currently an active-duty Gunner's Mate Second Class in the U.S. Navy, and I'm looking into transitioning into the civilian maritime industry after I separate in about five years. By that point, I'll have spent roughly eight or nine years assigned to ships, with experience in line handling, mooring and unmooring, underway replenishments, deck preservation, and general shipboard operations. Although my primary duties as a GM aren't directly related to navigation or operating a vessel, I'm hoping my experience will give me somewhat of a head start. I'm particularly interested in working on tugboats in Alaska, with Cook Inlet Tug & Barge being one of the companies I've been researching. Ideally, I'd like to enter the industry as an Able Seaman rather than an Ordinary Seaman, if my Navy experience and qualifications allow it. For those of you familiar with the industry, how much of an advantage would my military background realistically give me when applying for positions? Are there particular qualifications, certifications, or types of experience I should focus on obtaining during my remaining time in the Navy to make myself a stronger candidate?

My long-term goal would be to work my way up through the industry, eventually becoming a tugboat captain, although I'm also interested in the possibility of pursuing harbor pilotage much further down the road. I'm curious how career advancement typically works at tug companies. Do companies like CITB generally offer opportunities for deckhands to work toward their Mate's license and eventually advance into the wheelhouse, or is that something employees are largely expected to pursue independently? How common is it for companies to provide financial assistance, training, or mentorship toward obtaining higher credentials? I'd also be interested in hearing how long it typically takes someone entering as an AB to advance to Mate, assuming they're motivated and actively pursuing the necessary qualifications. Finally, for anyone who has made the transition from the Navy to civilian tugboats, is there anything you wish you'd known or done differently before separating? I'm still several years away from making the transition, but I'd like to use that time as productively as possible and would greatly appreciate any advice from people already working in the industry.

I just got my twic card is it hard to get a inland dekhand job?

Can anyone help I have my TWIC but it has not been easy finding a job I am willing to move and a hardworking guy can anybody help or point me in the right direction?

She left Zeebrugge for Dover on a calm evening with her bow doors open, and 193 people died. From the bridge the master had no view of the doors and no indicator light.

I made a 13-minute film from the inquiry record about that night. For those who sailed on ro-ros: how did your ships confirm the doors were closed before sailing, then and now?

https://youtu.be/sebnQLbXwIQ

On 12 February 1983, the 605-foot coal carrier SS Marine Electric sank about 30 nautical miles east of Chincoteague in a winter storm, with 23,410 tons of coal aboard, bound from Norfolk for Somerset, Massachusetts.

The Marine Board counted upward of 400 doublers and patches on the hatch covers in her last two years and found they had not been weathertight since 1981. The NTSB called the Coast Guard's hatch-cover inspections “cursory at best.” The reports do not settle on one cause: the Board found progressive flooding through wasted hatch and deck plating, while the NTSB found an undetermined structural failure and thought the covers were probably weathertight when she sailed.

I made a 15-minute documentary comparing the two reports; sources are in its description: https://youtu.be/lf4KqW3AjhM

For people who have worked commercial cargo ships: how were hatch covers physically checked when load-line certification was involved?