Something I wondered from this, was about the salvage master Sylvia Tervoort: How the heck does one become a "salvage master"? I guess it has more to do with

Something I wondered from this, was about the salvage master Sylvia Tervoort: How the heck does one become a "salvage master"? I guess it has more to do with the fact that there are a ton of jobs out there that are mostly "unknown" by ordinary people. Maybe it also has to do with location (ie, you're more likely to know about the idea of being a "salvage master" if you live near any place that has such companies as employers). At the same time I wondered "did she wake up one day and decide to become a salvage master?" - and how do you go about doing that? There are many jobs like this, all with somewhat obscure titles; some you can see how someone might fall into this line of work (ie - working up the ranks, or horizontal transition from another area, etc) - but others seem like they'd require such a strange set of disparate skills (as is alluded to in the article) that you have to wonder just how one lands that kind of work? It's not for me (though the idea of world hopping to supervise and assess ships for salvage does have a certain "romantic" appeal - but I know that's a false idea) - but obviously it is for others. How they get such a position, though, is the question in my head...