Physical Requirements for Merchant Navy

What are Physical Requirements needed to join Merchant Navy, will you please provide here???

[Kiran Chandar]

The candidate must be in good mental and physical health and free from any kind of bodily defect to interfere with the efficient performance required at the sea are eligible to join Merchant Navy.

Requirements are:
6/6 vision in both eyes (without visual aids);
No colour-blindness for Nautical Officer’s and for Engineering Officers use of corrective lenses permitted but the maximum permissible limits,
At entry, are 6/12 in each eye or 6/9 in the better eye and 6/18 in the other eye, for Distant Unaided Vision.

Unaided average threshold is to be higher than 40 db in both ears at 500,1000,2000, and 3000 Hz and / or functional speech discrimination less than 90% at 55 db in both ears is required.

A candidate should be able to hear a whisper at a distance of 5 meters on each side without using hearing aids.

Minimum height should be 157 centimetres

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