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FAQ on: Commercial Careers

Do you often find yourself looking out to sea, finding the midnight profile of an anchored vessel on the horizon, and wonder how you could get a job like that? Or perhaps you’ve thrown a leaf or small stick into a river and watched it float away until it was out of sight, feeling the pull of adventure, yearning to travel, and wishing you could get a job in the Maritime Industry?

Have you ever sat on the beach and watched as a ship slips below the horizon and wondered where it was going, what it was carrying? In the words of John Masefield have you ever “ hungered for the seas edge, the limits of the land. Where the wild old Atlantic is shouting on the sand”. If the answer to these questions is yes then a career in the merchant marine may be for you. It’s not as difficult as you might think, if you know where to begin.

Yottek can be your start to a job in the Maritime Industry. Whether it is cruise ships or yachts, tankers or sea going tugs, research-vessels or off-shore platforms, this new and exciting world can offer you the adventure you seek, the financial rewards you desire, and the leisure time to enjoy with your family or to pursue those things you thought you never would have the time for anymore.
Q:What is the US Merchant Marine
A:All U.S. seamen (citizens and green card holders) are certified, documented and licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard. Anyone holding such a certification or license is a de facto member of the U.S. Merchant Marine. There is no fancy uniform and it doesn’t come with a rifle or sword (unfortunately).

These are the professionals that man our commercial fleet of vessels. Everything from the massive ocean going tankers and container ships, longer than the highest skyscraper is tall, to the ferryboats carrying hundreds of thousands of people to work every day. From the tugs pushing barges full of grain, ore, and petroleum products to the fishing fleets harvesting the bounty of the sea, and research vessels trying to unlock the mysteries that lie beneath the ocean waves, which by the way cover 70 percent of our planet.
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