Maritime security crews now have a new weapon to help combat pirates armed with Ak47s and RPGs \u00a0\u2013 a C&G \u00a0(City and Guilds) qualification.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Sky News visited one of the two-day fast track courses, provided by 3RG in Poole, Dorset.\u00a0Running it was Ray Quarrie, a former member of the elite SBS, the maritime equivalent of the SAS.\u00a0He thinks the standardisation provided by the course is needed in an industry which attracts predominantly ex-forces personnel.<\/p>\n
\u201dYou have to start somewhere,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201dCertainly for the new guys who leave the military there\u2019s a good benefit.\u00a0\u201dThey come out of the military and they now know there\u2019s one recognised course and a definite direction to go in.\u00a0\u201dBefore this course it was all hearsay. People were doing this course and that course, of which some were accredited and some, unfortunately, were not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sky News visited one of the two-day fast track courses, provided by 3RG in Poole, Dorset.\u00a0Running it was Ray Quarrie, a former member of the elite SBS, the maritime equivalent of the SAS.\u00a0He thinks the standardisation provided by the course is needed in an industry which attracts predominantly ex-forces personnel.\u00a0\u201dYou have to start somewhere,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201dCertainly for the new guys who leave the military there\u2019s a good benefit.<\/p>\n
\u201dThey come out of the military and they now know there\u2019s one recognised course and a definite direction to go in. \u00a0Before this course it was all hearsay. People were doing this course and that course, of which some were accredited and some, unfortunately, were not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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