Looking forward and grateful for what I have achieved.

I am looking forward to when getting back on the water personally, hopefully working on a commercial boat as a deckhand. I want this because driving boats aren't a BIG passion to me but being able to be on a boat and look at the faces of tourist and little kids is a fun experience because that was who I was when I was younger, and they may not get the chance to, but I was able to do a lot on boats. And getting back on/in the water is something I am also looking forward to because I want to rent out a boat and just ride in it with friends/ family and do a lot of fun things with them, like fishing, jumping off/ swimming around, and watching the sunset.

Going to the New York Harbor School and being in the Vessel Operations program gave me a lot of free opportunities that you would typically have to pay some of them for. From going sailing touring cruises, hornblower, water taxi, Classic harbor line, etc., to going on a Coast Guard bot and driving it, we even got to do drills with them. Such as Man overboard (MOB) and Abandon ship. In the Vessel ops program, we get a handful of certificates for free with taking a course; we can't just get them handed to us. We start with our Safe boaters certification, where to get it, we have to read. Answers questions in a safe boater book that we receive, we take a minor test to help keep the information in our brains, then came our CPR certificate, which involved getting CPR dummies and practicing while watching videos, then getting our OSHA and EVERFI certificate and in the summer we were supposed to get our Radio and helm certificates.