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

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training, Maritime News
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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26 Jan

SUNY Maritime College Introduces New Assistant Engineer License Program

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
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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24 Sep

Maine Maritime announces ISM/ Auditor course

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
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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22 Sep

The 3rd Annual “Women on the Water” Conference

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
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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03 Aug

MARPOL Training Institute, Inc. adds essential Annexes to software program

Professional Mariner StaffLicensing & Training
Middletown, California - MARPOL Training Institute, Inc. (MTI) has recently added MARPOL Annex II Regulations for the Control of Pollution by Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk and Annex III Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Harmful Substances Carried by Sea in Packaged Form to their software package: Meeting MARPOL Standards (MMS). This comprehensive computer-based training software package now covers…
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17 Jun

Massachusetts Maritime receives gift from Clean Harbors Environmental Services for naming rights to athletic facilities

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Buzzards Bay, Mass. -- The Massachusetts Maritime Academy has received a pledge from Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. of Norwell, Mass. in the amount of $1.5 million dollars for naming rights to its contiguous athletic stadium and gymnasium complex.  The acceptance of the pledge, which was presented by Clean Harbors Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Alan S. McKim, was approved…
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12 May

NTSB asks academies to teach lessons of grounding involving new third mate

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty News, Licensing & Training
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has urged the nation's maritime academies to teach cadets the lessons of the 2007 grounding of the cruise ship Empress of the North. In February 2009, the NTSB issued a safety recommendation to six maritime academies and the Passenger Vessel Association. The statement addresses "the need for maritime academy cadets to understand their responsibilities…
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