Some people may be completely bamboozled by the idea of spending months at a time out at sea, spending time seemingly trapped in a confined space with nothing to do and no one to see except the same faces day in and day out. Add in a few cameras and you have Big Brother, but without the psychologically impaired and the soul-destroying tasks.

However, the majority of people who work out at sea love the life. It can be as filled with excitement and fun as it can with tedium and repetitiveness. After all, the sea can be a magnificent thing and being surrounded by the great blue constantly can be both relaxing and galvanizing. When those working at sea return they usually have a great deal of leave time saved up and a great deal of money in the bank since they will have had very little to spend their cash on out at sea. On top of this, that leave time is likely to be able to be spent all over the world in the most exotic locations imaginable.

Therefore, so long as you get a good crew, the chances are a life at sea suddenly seems quite appealing. But what about safety? Well, as with any intensive job, there are always going to be dangers lurking, and being surrounded by the fickle and tempestuous Mother Nature day in and day out may only exacerbate this, but so long as the ship or rig has the right watertight doors and blast doors, the chances of anything bad happening to those at sea is extremely slim, and as small as in almost any other profession.

So, just so long as you don’t mind being part of a family out at sea and are able to leave behind loved ones for weeks or months at a time, a life at sea can be one of excitement, enjoyment and edification. And so long as they have the right blast doors and watertight doors, you can also feel totally safe too.