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 .
