You need more ships before you create new maritime academies!

See earlier post…. Easy math.

Just means that there are 539ish grads every year that a certain DOT division didn’t know graduated and/or don’t care to track to see if they are working where they are obligated to work.

In all seriousness, though, yes the 539 # is complete sarcasm, but consider the source of this data. They’ve never been remotely good at tracking mariners who have a contractual debt to satisfy let alone compiling numbers on all the rest of the blue water mariners.

As far as I can tell, the only thing they care about right now is EMBARC. I couldn’t even fathom a guess as to what the #2 item is on the priority list.

I really wish I felt differently, but I can’t even go to the head in my own stateroom without being blasted by SASH/RAINN/EMBARC posters on the bulkheads as REQUIRED by SMS/USCG/MARAD…. It’s just plain disgraceful.

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