Fast Facts About the ProgramType: Continuing and Professional Development

Program InformationAre you a professional mariner looking to expand your career? If so, the San Jacinto College maritime program offers professional mariners courses to earn U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) licenses and certifications.

Courses are offered in deck and engineering operations for original or upgraded certificates and licenses for new entry-level mariners, as well as operational and management-level professionals.

The San Jacinto College maritime program:

• Is guided and supported by an advisory committee of industry leaders with classroom and simulator experience, some of the nation’s most experienced professional mariners

• Features a new state-of-the-art Maritime Technology and Training Center on the Port of Houston. The facility houses multiple classrooms, engineering labs, and advanced navigation labs together with the industry’s newest interactive, full-mission ship, towboat, and tugboat simulators.

An equal opportunity institution

For More InformationCall: 281-974-2200General Email: SanJacinto.Maritime@sjcd.edu

San Jacinto College Maritime Training Center on the Maritime Campus3700 Old Highway 146La Porte, Texas 77571www.sanjac.edu/maritime

Revised 2/2016

Maritime Training - Coast Guard Approved(Continuing and Professional Development/San Jacinto Maritime and

Technical Training Center on the Marititme Campus)

Courses offered through the San Jacinto College maritime program include:

• Able Seaman

• Advanced Cargo Handling & Stowage (Management Level)

• Advanced Fire Fighting

• Advanced Fire Fighting Refresher

• Advanced Meteorology

• Advanced Shiphandling

• Advanced Stability

• Apprentice Mate (Steersman)

• Apprentice Mate (Steersman) Upgrade

• Apprentice Mate (Steersman) Western Rivers Navigation

• Automatic Radar Plotting Aids (ARPA)

• Basic Fire Fighting

• Basic Shiphandling & Steering Control Systems

• Basic Training Refresher

• Bridge Resource Management

• Cargo Handling & Stowage (Operational Level)

• Celestial Navigation (Operational Level)

• Combined Basic & Advanced Fire Fighting

• Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS)

• Electronic Navigation

• Emergency Procedures (Operational Level)

• First Aid & CPR

Note: For complete program descriptions, please refer to the San Jacinto Community College District Catalog online at www.sanjac.edu/catalog.

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• Global Maritime Distress & Safety System (GMDSS)

• Leadership and Managerial Skills

• Leadership and Teamworking Skills

• Maritime Security Awareness

• Master 100 Tons / Mate 200 Tons

• Medical Care Person in Charge

• Medical Care Provider

• Meteorology (Operational Level)

• Personal Safety & Social Responsibilities

• Personal Survival Techniques

• Proficiency In Survival Craft

• Qualified Assessor

• Radar Observer (Inland)

• Radar Observer (Unlimited)

• Radar Observer Recertification

• Rating Forming Part Of A Navigational Watch Assessment Program

• Search & Rescue

• Search & Rescue (Operational Level)

• Ship Construction & Basic Stability

• Ship Management

• Simulator Instructor Training

• Tank Barge Dangerous Liquids

• Tank Ship Dangerous Liquids

• Towing Officer Assessment

• Train the Trainer

• Upgrade Master 100 Tons to Master 200 Tons (Near Coastal)

• Vessel Personnel with Designated Security Duties (VPDSD)

• Vessel Security Officer

• Visual Communications (Flashing Light)• other courses may be available on request