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- Many jobs in water transportation occupations require a merchant mariner’s document or a license from the national Coast Guard.
- Merchant mariners on oceangoing ships are hired for periods ranging from a single voyage to several continuous voyages and may be away from home continuously for months.
- Jobs aboard oceangoing vessels have high pay, but competition for them remains keen, and merchant mariners might have to wait months between work opportunities.
- Workers in other occupations who make their living on the seas and coastal waters include fishers and fishing vessel operators and some members of branches of the Armed Forces.
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