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Permalink Reply by Fred C. Johnson on February 7, 2012 at 8:11am

One of the most respected schools is Santa Barbara City College Marine Technology.

Total course cost is less then 6 grand. Plus you can take other college courses.

Look at the big picture, you are young and the more education and training you have the farther you will go in this industry. Learn to weld and obtain AWS certification that is a key to full time work.

Take my advice kid you can't go wrong.

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Permalink Reply by zachary king on February 7, 2012 at 8:19am

thanks for the great advice man . ill check out the school and call them up and see what they have to offer , thanks again:)

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Permalink Reply by Jimmy Kyser on February 7, 2012 at 11:24am

depends if you want to go offshore or inland

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Permalink Reply by zachary king on February 8, 2012 at 3:15am

Inland

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Permalink Reply by Fred C. Johnson on February 8, 2012 at 8:39am

SBCC is your best bet for both inland and offshore training.

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Permalink Reply by zachary king on February 13, 2012 at 7:53am

thanks ill check them out online :) ... and yes i put smiley faces im 16 :)

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Permalink Reply by Steve on February 18, 2012 at 10:37am

I wouldn't say that SBCC is the BEST, that's the farthest from the truth. Also if you want to spend a year and a half.. minimum training.. then go there. You can get your AWS cert from any other school, I got mine as well as topside and subsurface certs in school.. with DMT it was only 6 months. Do your research, go on school visits, and pick what you like. Check out DIT in Washington, and CDA in Florida. They're practically the same.. CDA just has no training deaths. 

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