Friday, May 11, 2012

BUT THE WORK IS NOT ALL SHIPBOARD OR AT SEA

Career recommendations relating to --- or depending on --- a strong background in maritime matters but that does not involve a life at sea are often ignored by career counselors who have limited information .
A.  Maritime liability and casualty loss insurance

B.  International trade --- Import/export

C.  Ship building, dry docking

D.  Port management

E.  Maritime security, anti-piracy, anti-terrorism

F.  Journalism for maritime trade periodicals -- editorial & marketing

G.  Recreational boat design, construction, brokerage, and sales

H.  Underwater archaeology

I.  International maritime policy matters

J.  Salvage operations; the Law of Salvage, a subset of admiralty law and a field in itself

K.  Technical diving (ultra-deepwater with mixed gasses) and underwater operations, including crewing on diving support vessels

L.  Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV's) : design, construction, and the   operation of Robot Submarines --- (heavily funded) . The emphasis should be on undersea exploration, remotely-operated underwater craft, and remote sensing devices to make underwater exploration widespread, useful, routine, and safe . With remotely operated sensors across a broad spectrum of inputs, remotely manipulated tools, and data recording, the hazards of underwater work to human divers are vastly reduced, the need for --- for example --- hyperbaric chambers and mixed gas diving is almost eliminated, and the incidence of decompression sickness will be greatly reduced .    


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