06 Jul

A Practical Degree Offers Possible Financial Provision for Training

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy (MAMA) partners with Mount West Community & Technical College to offer an Associate degree in Marine Technology. The degree combines general education classes with required courses for AB to Mate, for Chief Mate & Master or for Engine Room Coast Guard endorsements. Students will register for MAMA Coast Guard certified mariner-training classes through MCTC. Its classes will…
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23 Jun

Mid-Atlantic Maritime Offers Associate Degree Combined with USCG Endorsement

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy (MAMA) has partnered with Mount West Community & Technical College (MCTC - formerly known as Marshall Community & Technical College) in Huntington, West Virginia to offer an Associate degree of Applied Science in Technical Studies: Maritime Technology. MAMA instructors are adjunct instructors for MCTC, and MAMA class credit hours will be accepted toward the Associate degree.  Those…
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21 May

SNAME Partners to Realize Naval Engineering Education Center (NEEC)

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) is proud to announce that a program dedicated to the training of future naval systems engineers will soon be realized. A $3.2 million contract awarded 6 May from the Naval Sea Systems Command, which includes five additional years of optional extensions that could add up to $49.9 million, will establish a…
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21 May

Calhoon MEBA to host 2nd Annual International Maritime eLearning Symposium

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
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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04 May

Cal Maritime Training Ship GOLDEN BEAR Departs for Asia

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(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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13 Apr

Coast Guard Credential Testing Hosted at Mid-Atlantic Maritime Academy

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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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24 Mar

Nautical Institute works to enhance mariner safety, professionalism around the world

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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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09 Mar

PMI hosts escort training group from Seaspan, SMIT, BCC pilots and Vancouver Port Authority

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
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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05 Mar

Cal Maritime Offers Small Arms Training for Maritime Environment to Qualified Applicants

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(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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10 Feb

Cal Maritime vessel to evaluate ballast water treatment systems

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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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