Great posts XL5 and Englishal. Never really considered a MN career meself but have always been interested in that stuff as the old man works in that field.
Got a question which XL5 might be able to answer for me..... I heard of guys with their master mariners ticket and ATPL writtens working as deck crew on the old SR.N4 hovercrafts across the channel. You got anymore info on that rumour? What routes of entrance did those guys take to get into that game? I am fascinated at the unknown hoops one would've needed to jump through to get a rating on large transport hovercrafts.
Couldn't have been easy!
Cheers,
VFE.