The year, month by month
You walk in with no English. You walk out with a certificate, your documents in order, a CV, and an interview on camera that no longer freezes you.
- Months 1 to 3
The fear goes
No Spanish in the room from day one. The first three weeks feel impossible. By month three you hold ten minutes with a stranger.
- Months 4 to 6
You learn the ship
Departments, ranks, contracts, rotations. The English actually used on a deck, and the accents you will hear: Filipino, Indian, Romanian, American.
- Months 7 to 9
You learn to work under pressure
An angry guest. A wrong order. A radio you can barely hear. We make the room loud on purpose, because speaking well in a quiet room proves nothing.
- Months 10 to 12
You leave hired, or you leave ready
A CV built from nothing in the format agencies ask for. The interview recorded again and again. Documents: passport, seafarer medical, STCW, visa.
The half nobody else teaches
English is half the product. The other half is character, and it is never taught as a subject. It is trained by how the room runs for twelve months.
- The clock.
- Sessions start on the minute. Late without notice counts as absent. On a ship, late to your station is not a bad morning, it is a flight home.
- Notice before, not after.
- If you cannot come, you say so beforehand. That one habit is worth more to a supervisor on board than fifty vocabulary words.
- Finishing things.
- Twelve recorded tasks, four phases, a CV, and a minimum number of applications sent. All of it dated.
- Soft on mistakes, hard on rules.
- You can say it wrong forty times. You cannot turn up late without a word. That difference is exactly what your first supervisor will assume you already know.
The hard part, stated in full
Seven months without a day off. A shared cabin. Missing home in a place you cannot leave until the contract ends.
And before that, a year of arriving on time when arriving on time is not what anyone around you does.
Any agency promising you it is easy is lying, and any agency asking you for money is stealing: the cruise line pays the agency, never the other way round.
It is hard. It is real. And it is yours if you work for it.
How you get in
You message admissions and we tell you straight whether this is for you. In the first month we check the seafarer medical, your record and your passport, before serious money moves. If something stops you boarding, you find out in week three and you paid for three weeks, not a year.
Message admissionsWe answer on WhatsApp, usually the same day.