Best maritime school to attend in U.S.- Need opinions/experiences

Maritime Academy
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Took the BST and ERM/MEECE/leadership revalidation courses at Maine. They weren’t great. The firefighting revalidation was uniquely terrible. The same powerpoint from 10 years ago with the bullet points repeated. Not much discussion of any recent shipboard fires. Almost no discussion about shipboard fixed systems. No mention of water mist at all. Then you go and train with the Ellsworth FD. They cant wait to play around and show off for the mariners there. You go into a room and spray a burning haybale… One of the Ellsworth FD guys asked the instructor: “Whats the difference between a structure fire and a shipboard fire” After thinking for a bit he simply said: “You use less water fighting a fire on a ship” That’s it!? Thats all he could come up with? I don’t know why this guy is teaching AFF.

They could get any CM who had been sailing to do a better job teaching the class. Of course he would probably make way less money and would have to live nearby.

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Actually, Massachusetts Maritime Academy is getting the same ship if I’m not mistaken. They were both comissioned at the same time.

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I’m actually set to attend Massachusetts Maritime in the fall, and from what I’ve seen of the Massachusetts, Maine, and SUNY maritime academies, Massachusetts seems to be a good middle of the road cost-wise, and their facilities seem great. Maine was a little to expensive, but they have a really nice campus. For me it mostly came down to cost, because the cost to return ratio seems about the same with all of them, 1:1.

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Look at YouTube Channel. Mass Maritime Experience 777.

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Most of the maritime academies produce a good end result, It depends on your effort to get through the things you don’t like about that particular school and focus on the reason you are there in the first place. Regardless of cost wherever, it is pennies in the long run.

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