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What are typical starting salaries for engineers or mates coming out of the academy's and how easy is it for them to find jobs?

I understand it's important for them to get sea time and the flag doesn't matter. Can anybody give us an overview of how much seatime they have to get for each successive license and if additional studies are needed?

I also read the Triton article and it sounds appealing to us get people with a solid basic knowledge, abeit little seatime and mentor them into fine 1st mates on our (140 NRT, 468 GT) expedition yacht.

The challenge is to find people that also have the people skills be function well on a (charter) yacht.

Thorwald