3rg’s MSO Course features on Sky News

Maritime security crews now have a new weapon to help combat pirates armed with Ak47s and RPGs  – a C&G  (City and Guilds) qualification.

It might sound unlikely but the four-day MSO Course (Maritime Security Operative) is being seen as a positive step towards improving standards across the industry.

Sky News visited one of the two-day fast track courses, provided by 3RG in Poole, Dorset. Running it was Ray Quarrie, a former member of the elite SBS, the maritime equivalent of the SAS. He thinks the standardisation provided by the course is needed in an industry which attracts predominantly ex-forces personnel.

”You have to start somewhere,” he said. ”Certainly for the new guys who leave the military there’s a good benefit. ”They come out of the military and they now know there’s one recognised course and a definite direction to go in. ”Before this course it was all hearsay. People were doing this course and that course, of which some were accredited and some, unfortunately, were not.”

Sky News visited one of the two-day fast track courses, provided by 3RG in Poole, Dorset. Running it was Ray Quarrie, a former member of the elite SBS, the maritime equivalent of the SAS. He thinks the standardisation provided by the course is needed in an industry which attracts predominantly ex-forces personnel. ”You have to start somewhere,” he said. ”Certainly for the new guys who leave the military there’s a good benefit.

”They come out of the military and they now know there’s one recognised course and a definite direction to go in.  Before this course it was all hearsay. People were doing this course and that course, of which some were accredited and some, unfortunately, were not.”