Calhoon MEBA to host 2nd Annual International Maritime eLearning Symposium

The 2nd Annual International Maritime eLearning Symposium will be hosted at the campus of the Calhoon MEBA Engineering School in Easton, MD. The Conference begins on July 20th with half and full-day workshops, followed on July 21st and 22nd by the Symposium Keynote, Presentations and Exhibits, and will conclude with our special Keynote Speaker at a getaway Breakfast Buffet on…
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Cal Maritime Training Ship GOLDEN BEAR Departs for Asia

(Vallejo, CA - XX, 2010)… Nearly 260 cadets from The California Maritime Academy set sail Monday morning on the first of two two-month training voyages to Asia aboard the Academy's 500-foot training vessel, Golden Bear. The Golden Bear is operated and maintained by the students under the supervision of about four-dozen faculty and staff. This year's voyage began Sunday with…
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Coast Guard Credential Testing Hosted at Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy

Virginia Beach, VA -- United States Coast Guard testing will be hosted at Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy (MAMA) in Virginia Beach on June 7-11, 2010. All mariners who are pre-approved to test by the Coast Guard's National Maritime Center are welcome to register. Mariners can avoid long travels to Regional Exam Centers out of state and gain the potential edge of…
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Nautical Institute works to enhance mariner safety, professionalism around the world

David Patraiko, the Nautical Institute’s director of projects, outside the group’s headquarters in a former elementary school in London. The Nautical Institute is a kind of self-help organization created by mariners for mariners and dedicated to safety and professional development. “Our entire ethos is about improving safety and commercial efficiency through education and professional development,†said David Patraiko, the Nautical…
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PMI hosts escort training group from Seaspan, SMIT, BCC pilots and Vancouver Port Authority

Seattle, Washington-March 5, 2010—The Pacific Maritime Institute (PMI) hosted its third of several scheduled two and a half day tanker escort training programs. The program included members of the British Columbia Coast Pilots and tugboat Captains from Seaspan International Ltd. and SMIT Marine Canada Inc. This training program marks the culmination of a multi-year project initially begun by the BCC…
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Cal Maritime Offers Small Arms Training for Maritime Environment to Qualified Applicants

(Vallejo, CA - March 3, 2010)… The California Maritime Academy Department of Extended Learning announced today that it is offering Certified Small Arms Training for the Maritime Environment, a 3-day practical field training course on the appropriate use of small arms on government-chartered and commercial vessels worldwide. Initial offerings of the course, set for March 22-24 and April 13-15, will…
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Cal Maritime vessel to evaluate ballast water treatment systems

California Maritime Academy’s training ship Golden Bear will be the site of a $700,000 project to test ballast water treatment prototypes. (Photos courtesy California Maritime Academy/Doug Webster) As researchers work worldwide to design and build new ballast treatment systems, a team at California Maritime Academy is finishing work on a facility that they hope will make testing of these new…
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SUNY Maritime College Introduces New Assistant Engineer License Program

SUNY Maritime College is now offering a 30-month Assistant Engineer (Limited Oceans) License Program, leading to an Associate Degree in Applied Science. Maritime is the only college in the United States to offer this program that upon completion, allows a student to receive a license as an Assistant Engineer (Limited-Oceans) of steam and/or motor vessels. The new license program meets…
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Maine Maritime announces ISM/ Auditor course

Maine Maritime Academy and Warsash Maritime Academy are pleased to announce the upcoming course ISM/ Auditor/ ISO/ Lead Auditor including ISO 14001 and ISPS which begins on October 26th and runs through October 30th at Maine Maritime Academy. This five day course is designed to prepare practicing and potential auditors of international maritime safety management systems for the mandatory certification…
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The 3rd Annual “Women on the Water” Conference

Please join the Maritime Administration and the Maine Maritime Academy for the third annual “Women on the Water†conference on October 15-17, 2009 on the campus of the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine.  Each year, this highly successful event brings midshipmen and cadets attending America's maritime academies together with some of the most successful members of the maritime industry…
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