How to become a seaman.

Seaman jobs are well paid and regulated by governments and IMO (International Maritime Organization).
The job requires to do duties in server weather conditions at sea.
These seafarers must be always to ready to handle situations like fire, flooding, collisions, grounding, pollutions, piracy and many other hazardous situations.

To become as a seaman you must have good knowledge of English as the job requires communication with Multilanguage speaking people.
Further more you must have to pass medical fitness checks, including for color blindness.
There are mainly two kinds of jobs as,

1.Officers.
2.Crew.

Officers.

There are two kind of officers.

1. Deck Officers - Deck officers are responsible for the whole ship including passengers and
cargo handling and planning and making the voyages.

2. Engine room Officers - Engine room officers are responsible for the ship's power supply and propulsion.

To become as an officer normally you must have passed high school in science subjects.

Then must enroll in a maritime college or school. Most of the countries have their own government operated maritime schools. UK, Australia, India, Philippines and many other countries offer private universities and schools for foreign students at reasonable fee for maritime education.

Officers can become as Degree holders or diploma holders after studying 1-3 years.
In the mean time the you have to work as cadet officers after completing 6-12 months of course study for to get work experience.
In the mean time you must get the following short courses certificates.
Some of these must be in Advanced courses certificates for the officers.
Fire fighting
First aid
PSSR
And the necessary other certificates.

After completion of the course you will be issued with Ocean going or costal service. Depending on the certificates you can work under those operating vessels.
Further more after completion of 12 months of sea experience, you can select to study for the next upper stage officer certificate.
A deck officer can go up to Master level to command a ship.
An engineer officer can go up to Chief Engineer level to operate a ship.

Anyway all these certificates are issued for a certain period and they have to be renewed according to the expiration dates.

Galley Department which contains crew ranks of Chief cooks, second cooks stewards and many other rank must finish and get certificates from any available hotel schools along with the necessary short courses like firefighting, first aid, PSSR and other necessary certificates.