Watch how NMCI can chart a sure course to some challenging and exciting careers

Dan MacCarthy attends a training course at the National Maritime College of Ireland, Ringaskiddy, home to programmes which offer routes into some truly exciting career choices.

THE ‘helicopter’ plunges into the water with three Commissioner of Irish Lights employees aboard. They have seconds to escape from a watery grave before the chopper plunges to the murky depths.

A face appears at a window, then another face at a second window. Then a third. Below the surface the windows are shoved open and all three men in their yellow survival suits swim to the surface.