Professional Mariner – American Mariner Training Directory 2027

Training generations aboard Golden Bear

Golden Bear returned to San Francisco Bay looking well-traveled and hard-worked after completing nearly 30 summer cruises in its three decades of service for Cal Maritime Academy. Departing first- and third-year cadets carried their seabags outside the gates of the recently closed Mare Island Dry Docks. Cadets typically complete two summer training cruises aboard Golden Bear, as well as one…

When distraction becomes normalized: Cellphone use, BRM and the loss of situational awareness

When a Houston pilot was on a personal phone call shortly before a collision that caused a towing vessel to capsize and sink, killing one of the five crewmembers aboard, members of the pilot’s bridge team could not only hear him but knew the call was nonoperational. Yet the pilot was violating no rule prohibiting such calls, either from Houston…

Vancouver’s new maritime lab asks: What more can we make of simulation?

The day before he spoke with Professional Mariner, Dr. Jeffrey Smith watched an Aframax tanker make its way through the Port of Vancouver. Three tugs escorted Java Sea, with a fourth standing by. The operation was part of a trial involving deeper-draft tanker transits through one of the port’s narrow waterways — the kind of complex ship movement that helps…

USCG TRAINING DIRECTORY – BY STATE

ALABAMA The Captain School Orange Beach, AL (239) 549-0271 [email protected] https://www.captainschool.com ALASKA Alaska Marine Safety Education Association Sitka, AK (907) 747-3287 https://www.amsea.org Alaska Vocational Technical Center (AVTEC) Seward, AK (907)224-6196 https://avtec.edu/maritime/courses Alaska Waters Consulting, LLC Anchorage, AK (907) 677-2606 http://www.alaskawatersconsulting.net University of Alaska Southeast - Ketchikan Ketchikan, AK (907) 225-6177 [email protected] https://uas.alaska.edu/ketchikan/maritime-training-center/ CALIFORNIA █▌▌ Maritime Institute (Alameda) █▌▌ Alameda, CA…

USCG TRAINING DIRECTORY – BY COURSE

Able Seafarer - Deck █▌▌ Maritime Institute of Technology █▌▌ & Graduate Studies (MITAGS) MD, WA Adams Marine Seminars Maritime Training Center FL Chapman School of Seamanship FL Great Lakes Maritime Academy /Continuing Ed. MI Sea School (Jacksonville) FL Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship MD Able Seafarer - Deck (Online) Northeast Maritime Institute Able Seafarer - Engine █▌▌ Maritime…

Changing course: Coast Guard rolls out Navita to modernize mariner credentialing

The Coast Guard rolled out Navita on Sept. 14, launching a new online application portal designed to change how merchant mariners submit paperwork, track applications and maintain their credentials. The U.S. Coast Guard Office of Merchant Mariner Credentialing (CG-MMC) developed Navita as part of a broader modernization of the Merchant Mariner Credential (MMC) process, replacing manual email submissions with a…