>>1301926>completely dependent on job, type and size of shipEven the cargo container runs from China to Cali are only like 2 weeks. Almost none of the fishing vessels have the fuel to be out more than that. Unless you're one of under 1000 people world-wide that gets to sail a tall-ship professionally or are a member of a blue-water navy (US, France, Russia), then no.
I do agree the sunrises and sunsets are pretty good, and yeah lightning storms are awesome (assuming you're on something big enough for them to not be a big threat).
At least in the US Navy, literally only the helmsmen are taught advanced/manual navigation, they're only taught it once, and there's no ongoing tests to make sure they still know it. Everything's fucking reliant on GPS any more, and the computer interface for that is so retard-resistant a particularly gumptious 3 year old could accurately plot a course. I don't have a TON of experience around the civilian sector but I've met exactly 0 people that know astronav beyond the broadest theoretical principles, and I've lived in Norfolk for 17 years.
A few hours of "survival training" consisting of a powerpoint presentation and maybe being shown the gear dos not constitute training in any meaningful sense and you know it. Mainly because open ocean survival consists of "get in the lifeboat or die". My ship didn't even have enough life jackets for the command staff, much less everybody, and a quarter of the life jackets we DID have were non-serviceable because they hadn't been maintained or replaced since the ship was commissioned in the 90's. Not only that but half the crewmen on my ship can't swim, period.
t. BM3 on the USS Ramage
