 Deep inside the ship, named Golden Bear, it is hot, and the engines are noisy. But Vasile Tudoran loves what he is doing here. I knew I wanted to fix stuff since I was a little kid. Vasile Tudoran is a mechanical engineering student at the California Maritime Academy. Most of the Academy students are required to receive training on this ship. Teacher Robert Jackson says this gives them the hands-on experience that businesses want. I would say the majority of our students have between one to two job offers before they graduate. Most of those job offers are between 60 and 120 thousand. Our students have such a broad knowledge they can go anywhere. She says students get jobs working on ships with electric power centers or satellite companies. The Academy has only about 900 students. About 94% of them get a job after their studies are completed. Andrew Dutucci says he and other students know they must follow the Academy's rules. It's not like your normal college experience would be. We were part of military school, we have uniforms, we have formations, just discipline yourself to show up and keep grooming standards and be where you need to be and sit down and buckle your bell in the study. The students carry heavy responsibilities on the ship and homework for their classes. Ships officers are kind of like your surgeon or your airplane pilot. You don't want them to be right only 70% of the time. We pretty much have to be right all the time so that's a hard thing to teach young people that there's zero tolerance for mistakes. Andrew Dutucci loves life at sea. My favorite thing about it is waking up every morning and seeing nothing but the ocean on all sides of you. I get a thrill out of that. Feeling that excitement and eventually getting paid for it is what influences these students. I'm Shirley Griffith.