Marine Surveyors Bridge Gap for Dying Profession, Graduates 50 Students

The Center for Marine Surveyors in Nigeria has commenced moves to bridge the gap currently being experienced in the marine surveying sub-sector of the Nigerian maritime industry as it graduates its first set of 50 students.

Disclosing this to newsmen in Lagos, President of the Center, Akin Olaniyan said that the decision to grow a younger generation of marine surveyors was burn out of the fact that Nigeria does not lose out of the lucrative jobs and businesses in the sector to foreigners adding that there were not enough surveyors in the industry presently.

Olaniyan also said that without the requisite training in marine survey, one cannot have a good understanding of the industry and how one can key into it and partake in the businesses therein.

He said: “Becoming a marine surveyor is a onetime training, it comes with years of experience, without raining, you cannot understand your potential. Having this academic training is not enough, many of us got training informally through experience and through those of us that are Classification Societies.”

Speaking, Director of Programmes at the Center, Capt Tayo Ojutalayo said that the new generation of marine surveyors in Nigeria can compete globally by virtue of the training they have received as they both old and new members are internationally certified.

Ojulatayo also said that the training for the next set of marine surveyors have commenced adding that in the two months, new intakes will return to the classrooms.