OSG Pledges $90,000 for Women at SUNY Maritime College
visits, they will share their personal experiences and extend invitations to interested young women to visit the campus. The program also includes hands-on experience at the helm of the College's 41-foot UTB, guided tours of the Empire State VII, simulation-based navigation exercises in the New York harbor using full-mission bridge simulators and introductions to campus life on the Mess Deck.Earlier this year, OSG partnered with the Women Offshore Foundation to award four scholarships to U.S. female maritime students
SUNY Hosts Ceremony for Hornblower E-Navigation Lab
Ongoing partnership between Hornblower and Maritime College provides access to internships and jobs for students & alumni along with access to training facilities for Hornblower crewsThere is a new wave of maritime talent hitting the shores of New York Harbor as one of the oldest maritime institutions in the country continues to expand its partnership with one of the biggest ferry operators in the country. SUNY Maritime College officials joined Hornblower executives for a ceremony renaming the College’s navigation lab the “Hornblower E-Navigation Lab.” The naming served as
SUNY Maritime to Train NYC’s Next Ferry Captains
NYC Ferry operated by Hornblower is teaming up with the oldest merchant marine academy in the country to deliver a world class training program before a majority of the new NYC Ferry vessels even arrive in New York Harbor. SUNY Maritime College was founded in 1874 as the New York Nautical School, the first school in the nation devoted to training merchant mariners. As part of this new collaboration between NYC Ferry and SUNY Maritime, future captains and crew will have access to SUNY Maritime’s top notch classroom facilities and experienced maritime faculty. Among those facilities
Herbert Joins Phoenix International
on the Seine and assisting The Bent Prop Project with WWII aircraft location in Palau. Before entering the private sector he served as a NOAA hydrographer aboard NOAA ships RUDE, RAINIER, and on two NOAA Navigation Response Teams based in Norfolk, VA and New York, NY. Survey areas included New York Harbor, Boston Harbor, Narragansett Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, and the coastal regions and fjords of southeast and southwest Alaska. Mr. Herbert worked in support of fleet logistics at NOAA’s Atlantic Marine Center and received the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Employee of the Year
SUNY Maritime to Host STEM Academy for City Schools
programs that meet the needs of motivated disadvantaged youth, ages 15-21. Participating students will have an opportunity to board and sail on the tall ship, The Lettie G. Howard, an original 1893 fishing schooner operated by the South Street Seaport Museum in collaboration with New York Harbor School and with support from The Port Authority, which provides unique tall ship sail training opportunities for students from New York and New Jersey. High schools participating in the SUNY Maritime STEM Academy are: The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, on Governors Island, New
Bouchard Simulation Center Opens at SUNY Maritime
go to school here (SUNY Maritime), to give them a good foundation when they graduate to come and be employed in an industry that is booming and lacking qualified employees right now,” said Morton S. Bouchard, III. “The way it came about was really simple: we always had a simulator in New York Harbor, and the company that was operating that simulator moved it down to Houston. So we partnered with SUNY Maritime to build a first-class simulator on campus that would not only benefit cadets, but would benefit our employees. We’re going to do our training here with our captains and mates
MM&P Hopes to Pad Ranks with Brown Water Mariners
New York Harbor Tug Boat Captains and Crews, Staten Island Ferry Workers, Circle Line and Other Tourist Boat Crews Vote on Joining New Union Uniting with the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots will bring added clout, resources and training to local mariners and open the door to opportunities beyond the East Coast, the union said. Ballots are arriving in the mail this week at the homes of 1,300 area mariners for an election to decide whether local watermen will join a large national union of deck officers who serve on ocean-going ships, and which also represents captains
