# What experience does the typical modern Cruise Ship Captain have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 21, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experience-does-the-typical-modern-cruise-ship-captain-have/816481 "2018-06-21T01:48:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experience-does-the-typical-modern-cruise-ship-captain-have/816481/1 "2018-06-21T01:48:02Z")
A lot of commercial airline pilots tend to be (at least in the past) former military due to their years of experience and training. Do you tend to see former military (either actual captains or other officers) as cruise ship captains or non-military but still experience boat captains? In general are cruise ship captains people who were in another shipping job and were enticed to join the cruise ship company, or are they people already with the company who were promoted from within to become captain? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-experience-does-the-typical-modern-cruise-ship-captain-have/816481)._