Jimbuna,
How's your lad getting on? Is he still at sea? Did he get his Chief Mate's ticket?
I was back in South Shields at the end of 2013 for my Chief Engineer's ticket. The marine school had gone downhill quite a bit since I was last there doing my Second Engineer's ticket in 2010. Last month I did a course in Glasgow with a guy who works for BP, just done his Second's at Shields and says the last of the good engineering lecturers (including the guy who was holding it all together) have all recently quit. Sad to see the college in decline... I've got many happy memories of my time there as a cadet.,
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