The question in the mouths of many prospective students who either want to be part of the maritime industry workforce or parts of navy personnel is: Is Nigeria Maritime University a Navy School? Or: is Maritime a Military School?
To answer these questions is the reason why this page is created. The page will try to define in simple terms what the maritime is and what the navy is and do some comparations.
What is Maritime
Maritime or Maritime Sector is a word or words that is/are used to describe all activities and organisations that have their business on sea. By this you should be thinking about activities like maritime transportation, fishing, marine and ocean research, maritime defense and maritime sports. And organisations like ship building companies, ships operator companies, wharves operators, oil and gas companies with offshore oil platform, various maritime academics, maritime trade union and organisations and of course navy and more.
Maritime University or Nigeria Maritime University provide academic training for people that may like to work specifically in this sector and other sectors of the Nigeria economy and so if you aspire to work on ship (cruise ship cargo ship, tanker ship, fishing vessel...); offshore oil platform and at other organizations within maritime sector as stated above Maritime University is an idea place for you to get trained. You could also get trained at some of the traditional universities around.
What is Navy College
Navy College or Navy School is an academic institution where people are trained in the art of sea security and warfare.
In the navy school, no matter a student area of specification, he is train to become a military personnel who knows how to use different arms, ammunition and technology to carry out military action deter human aggression on sea in order to maintain freedom and peace on sea.
Different Between Maritime Vs Navy
As stated above navy is a subset of maritime. It is one of the organisations in the bigger maritime sector, but while cruise ship operators are into moving passengers from place to another and wharves operators are into managing activities at wharves, navy provide security against external aggression on the sea.
Chosen to attend a Navy school will automatically make you a naval officer on graduation and it will require you to partake in military operation either as a operator of military vehicles, vehicles maintenance officer, navy flight officer, medic, explosive ordnance disposal officer, pilot, cryptographic support, search and rescue team and more.
While maritime academies like Nigeria Maritime University prepare cadets for careers in the merchant marine or civilian organisations.
Share This.