The academy owns its fire ground, its survival pool and its lifeboat centre instead of hiring them by the day — and anyone who has done safety training in a borrowed pool knows what that changes.
Learn at an academy that owns its own fire ground, survival pool and lifeboat centre.
The academy owns its fire ground, its survival pool and its lifeboat centre instead of hiring them by the day — and anyone who has done safety training in a borrowed pool knows what that changes.
Verified schoolsGold credentialWhat you can realistically reach: STCW Basic Safety Training is the legal minimum to work aboard, not a qualification to run anything. It gets you to an interview; it does not get you a job, and no school can honestly promise one. What comes after is sea time and a departmental ticket — an honest school says so before you pay.
STCW Basic Safety Training — four modules, MCA-approved · Certifying body: MCA (Maritime & Coastguard Agency), under the IMO STCW Convention
This Atlas exists because there is a real difference between a school that teaches you and a good-looking website — and too much of the internet is the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what we'll tell you straight when it doesn't.
If a place dodges these, that's your answer. It costs you nothing to ask, and it tells you everything.
This is the short version. The full method is here — the six questions, in order, for any craft anywhere.