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2. Marine Glossary: This glossary contains maritime terms, abbreviations, and acronyms in common use onboard ships, offshore, and on this website.
   
   
3. Marine Job - Frequently Asked Questions: On this page I have collected typical questions sent to me about maritime job search. Mostly how and what to do to find a job. I have included the answers I have given. This covers some general enquiries, Cargo Ships, Offshore, Superyachts, and Cruise Ships.
   
   
4. Cargo Ship Job Links: Links to recruiting agents and ship owners - operators for jobs onboard cargo ships. Some job listings include salaries paid.
   
   
   • Advice for Newcomers: All jobs on International ( Foreign going ) ships are strictly regulated by international law. Here you find advice on how to get started on a maritime career.
     
     
   • Ship Cadet Training and Employment: Here you find a short overview of ship cadet training. Included are links to training providing organisations, institutions, and ship owning / managing companies.
     
     
   • Marine-Maritime CV examples: Examples of Marine-Maritime C.V.'s and resumes already on the net.
     
     
   • How to Write a Seaman's Job Application: The advice and tips on this page, even if intended especially for seamen's use, do in great parts apply also more generally when applying for any job through the Internet.
     
     
   • Ship Job Application Form: Ship job application example form, especially adapted to the use of seamen. What is not applicable to you in the example form, you can delete.
   
   
5. Cruise Liner Job Links: Here you find links to cruise liner ship and passenger ferry crew recruiting agents and employers. Deck and engine officers and crew as well as catering and hospitality jobs. Some job listings include salaries paid.
   
   
   • Cruise Liner Employment Scam: As the Nigerian group is defrauding seamen and other mariners by sending fake job offers, so this Malaysian group is faking employment offers on cruise liners. Here you find some advice on how to detect if the offer you have received is a scam.
   
   
6. Offshore Oil-Gas Drilling Rig Job Links: Marine, technical, and seismic jobs in the gas, oil, and petroleum offshore sector. Included are also deep sea and underwater construction related employment and other special marine jobs. Some job listings include salaries paid.
   
   
   • Offshore Training and Certificates: Here you find information on those certificates everybody must have offshore. I have listed approved survival and safety training centres, as well as approved offshore technical skills training centres.
     
     
   • Offshore Oil Rig Catering Job Links: Here you find job links for offshore oil field catering personnel: Chefs, cooks, galley hands, housekeeping, and cleaning staff, etc. Some job listings include salaries paid.
     
     
   • Offshore Oil Rig Medical Job Links: Here you find job opportunities for offshore medics, nurses, and doctors. Because of insurance requirements occupational health and emergency medical services are very important on offshore oil-gas installations and remote sites.
     
     
   • Underwater Welding Jobs: Here you find links to job opportunities with underwater welding and non-destructive testing ( NDT ) in connection with maintenance of oil rigs and other underwater constructions. Some sources to training and certification requirements are also provided.
     
     
   • Offshore ROV Jobs: Here you find links to ROV operators recruiters /employers and information about ROV employment / career opportunities, mostly as ROV Pilot / Technician. Some vacancy lists include indications on salaries paid.
   
   
7. Marine-Maritime Land Based Job Directory: Links to special seamen jobs, maritime land based jobs, and marine crewing and staffing agencies. Some job listings include salaries paid.
   
   
8. Marine Fishing Jobs: International job links for fishermen, fishing, and fisheries professionals as well as management level employment opportunities in the seafood sector.
   
   
9. Boating and Superyacht Job Links: Employment on motor and sailing yachts - from smaller sailing boats to superyachts - for Blue water sailors and professional yachts people, some job listings include salaries paid. Also useful navigational and marine safety links ( small boat safety etc. ).
   
   
   • Superyacht Crew Training and Certification: Here you find links to superyacht and mega yacht STCW and skills training schools and centres. I have included some information on certificates necessary on commercial yachts.
     
     
   • Superyacht Employment Money Scam Example: The Superyacht and Mega Yacht sector is coming of age and maturing. The Nigerians (?) have found new "targets" ( victims ) for their employment scams with fake job offers and advance fee.
   
   
10. Tall Sailing Ships Job Links: Here you find links to recruiting agents and employers offering employment on tall sailing ships, some job listings include salaries paid. There are also some links to organizations giving sailing ship work training.
    
    
11. Philippine Seamen Job Links: Here you find job opportunities for Philippine seamen - Officers and Engineers, deck and engine crew, on all kinds of cargo ships and some cruise liners as well as offshore oil rigs. Some job listings include salaries paid.
    
    
12. Top 20 Maritime Recruiters-Employers 2010: This page presents a list of companies and organisations, mainly maritime recruiters and employers, who are listed on this website. They are listed in the order of how many clicks they have received.
    
    
13. Old Man's Job Corner: Due to changed employment conditions for older Captains today, this service has been discontinued as of January 2006. Please look for shore based employment on the Marine-Maritime Job Links page instead.
    
    
14. Hazardous Ship Cargo Links: Hazardous ship cargo information for maritime professionals concerned with shipping hazardous or dangerous materials by sea, listing: legal sources, chemical data banks, clean-up resources, training, and possible work vacancies in the hazardous materials sector.
    
    
15. Maritime Safety and Security Links: Links to global maritime safety and security information including control of ballast water and invasive species.
    
    
    • Port State Control (PSC) Summary: A summary of Port State Control with links to different geographical PSC authorities. Includes links also to miscellaneous PSC sources.
      
      
    • Port State Control Links: Links to PSC Authorities in different world regions. Study the reasons and you learn to prevent authorities from stopping your own ship. In year 2000 the two main reasons were lacking maintenance of fire fighting and lifesaving equipment.
      Today those two are still the main reasons for detention.
      
      
    • International Ship and Port Facility Security Convention (ISPS) Summary: Summary of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Convention (ISPS-Code) with up-dates.
      
      
    • Ballast Water Convention Summary: Summary of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships Ballast Water and Sediments with additional up-dated information.
      
      
    • Ship Emissions: Ship emissions include everything that starts onboard a ship and ends up in the air, onshore, or in the sea ( except for the cargo ). The intention with this page is to follow up with the global environmental protection against ship emissions.
    
    
16. What's ECDIS ?:The page explains the new ECDIS with some links to more information and training requirements. A sample list of Training Institutes around the world is also included.
    
    
17. Seafarer's Links: Links to sites about sailing boats and yachts, for Blue Water sailors and other seafarers, plus other useful marine links of general interest or with educational content.
    
    
18. Daily Maritime News
    
    
19. Nigerian Money Scam Example: Have you received a good sounding job offer with a Nigerian company? It could be a Nigerian employment-money scam targeting seamen; probably mostly older captains, deck officers, and engineers are the targets. This page gives an example of a job offer and money scam letter I received middle of July 2005. To this I have added details as reported by other "targets", who also have received the same kind of offer.
    
    
20. International Maritime Webring: This is the home page for the International Maritime Ring. Here you find some tips on how to adjust and install the web ring code as well as a couple of options for different Maritime Webring ID-pictures.

Guest Articles:

Asbestos in Ships and Cancer - Overview: Asbestos was once one of the most highly used materials in general. It was commonly known for its versatility and usefulness as an insulator. Because of its great ability in fireproofing and insulation, it became extremely large in vessel construction, especially in the piping and boilers on the inside of ships. Because asbestos was so often used in piping, lining, and insulation, this is where its major risk to marine engineers comes in.

Marine Engineers and Cancer: The nature of materials that have previously been used in shipbuilding has led a large number of ship's engine room crews to be over-exposed to asbestos. This has resulted in an abnormally high amount of asbestos-related cancer cases among seafarers, particularly marine engineers.

Mesothelioma Incidence in Europe: This article discusses the incidence / prevalence ( spread of ) Mesothelioma cancer among seafaring European engineers. This cancer starts from exposure to asbestor.

Telling the Truth in Maritime Job Applications: Provided you were honest when writing your CV it may be wise, when job hunting, to make sure the CV is made a part of your permanent employment file and, this way, if you do get hurt in your work, your counsel could easily argue that the employer "had notice" of any possible past problems.

Cruise Ship Casino Jobs: The article introduces casino specific jobs and describes them as they would be onboard a cruise ship. Generally the cruise ship casinos are much smaller in size than the shore-side ones. When the ship is in port the casino is usually closed, often the local legislation prevents gambling.

Who Can be a DPO ?: This article covers the work experience needed to train and succesfully work as a DPO. It also highlights current problems and some possible future solutions.

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