The ultimate control of the Ship is in the hands of the
Engineers in the engine rooms. Skilled Engineers
are required to pioneer the working in the mechanical
and electrical equipments throughout the ship. The
work not only involves in supervising the operation
but also in maintaining all the necessary complex
equipments such as engine, boilers, refrigeration
and air conditioning plant and the lifts and cranes
just to mention a few of them.
Sophisticated modern equipments are created in a
manner where manual operation is not needed. At
the same time emergency calls is required to be
answered at any time of the day.
It is definitely a challenging role – To mould
the candidates to be a perfect cadet – Training
is provided with utmost care. The level of training
certificates is awarded at various levels.
The training begins with an orientation at a Maritime
College the main theme concentrates on the fundamental
knack, shipboard adaptation, fire fighting, individual
alertness for survival and strengthening of all
kinds of arising difficult situations. A detailed
portfolio would be issued mentioning the various
tasks required to complete your training cadetship
Phases. This detailed portfolio would be handed
over to you just before the commencement of the
first training phase at sea.
There would be a hands-on training at sea, which
is scheduled by completion of phase 1 at Maritime
College. The candidates are required to put all
their theories in practice. This training phase
ensures smooth and first hand knowledge of work
at sea.
After approximately three years you should qualify
as a Watch keeping officer with an MCA/AMSA certificate
of Competency. On completion of cadetship successfully
you will be awarded with HND / Advanced Diploma
Marine Engineering.
Even before your tenure of three years of training
, you could master the skills of taking charge of
a ship for about eight hours a day. The serving
officer could excel his further services with his
higher qualification level of MCA / AMSA certificate
of competency as 2nd Engineer and Chief Engineer.
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