Local knowledge should be your edge, not your blind spot.

 

Local knowledge of local conditions is precisely what gives our local boatmasters the advantage over foreign trained mates. 

Current and Weather (together with Engineering Knowledge) are the topics that are viewed least. 

SSNT has been trying to promote nautical training for offshore jobs in the Caribbean  long enough to have had over 90,000 views of our educational videos and posts on various platforms.

While we acknowledge that most of the views on our SS Nautical Training YouTube channel are from India and the Philippines, the pattern is the same. We wonder why this is so, and our top two possibilities are:

Either our posts and videos on these topics are bad, or Caribbean seafarers are already experts in these topics and don't need to view our kushuquenk posts.

It makes sense because current and weather are simply local conditions and it is right and fitting that local seafarers are the experts. We expect Caribbean boatmasters to be hurricane experts. We expect them to be experts in the North and South Atlantic ocean currents and the seasonal movement and effect of the inter tropical convergence zone and Orinoco flow. Caribbean boatmasters will be experts on how the seasonal position of the ITCZ affects the strength and direction of the trade winds. 

This is precisely what gives our local boatmasters the advantage over any foreign trained mate. Right?