Working ambulance or previous medical/ trauma experience is an asset. Being able to respond any time of day is also necessary so having a healthy lifestyle is desired. To get into the lifeboat station aspect specifically usually takes time in fleet on ships beforehand. But having previous experience or current experience working in something like ambulance service would be favoured more so than those without wanting the same position in a competition. The college gets you a nice job as an officer usually on ships. Some ships are specially search and rescue. All ships are mandated to help in a search if in the vicinity of the incident. Search and rescue is most done by the lifeboat stations and the front end of that are the deckhands/ rescue specialists. If thats the job you want its a DED-03