“Pandemic fear” and COVID-19: mental health burden and strategies

Oceanography as a Science is very close to navigation and its professional participation is far from being well used to serve the Brazilian Merchant Navy. To increase maritime transport and enable the insertion of human resources with a university level, the purpose of this article is to present a hypothesis aimed at reforming the professional regulation of the oceanographer, aiming to create the right of direct access to the career of seafaring to graduates in Oceanography with qualification and issuance of Seaman’s Record Book, for this purpose, the study describes the current situation of the profession and demonstrates a reasonable possibility of improvement in the list of seafarer qualified for the Brazilian maritime shipping sector.