Great Lakes Maritime Academy

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Degree completion program in Maritime Studies. By the time a Boatswain’s Mate reaches the Pay Grade of E5, they have potentially earned over forty-four credits of lower level courses which because of the maritime-specific nature of the earned credits can only be used as “electives” at most institutions. There are six state sponsored maritime academies in the United States (Massachusetts, Maine, Great Lakes, Texas A&M and California and New York) which offer Maritime and Transportation degrees as

spills into the water. Vis versa a ship loading floats away from the dock (because a mooring line breaks) or rocks do to wave action, causing a fuel line to snap. On the other hand a majority of cargo and fuel dumping occurs on purpose. Ships on the Great Lakes cannot allow their dry cargos to mix so the Coast Guard created a policy where a ship's deck must be ‘broom clean’, meaning any cargo remaining on deck after an on/offload considered safe gets washed off the deck (USCG). The Coast Guard believes

Instructor Professional Biography My name is Dr. Nicole Runyon and I am very much looking forward to working with all of you. I live in Northern Michigan (in the Northern Lower Peninsula). I have a passion – facilitating and teaching online! It's a great opportunity for me to share my experiences while at the same time learning

Russian geography - Regions of Russia Russia is a country about 1.8 times the size of the US occupying the vast area between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean. It has an area of 10, 672,000 sq. miles (17,075,200 sq.km) and a population of almost 150 million people. Occupying a large territory in Europe and Asia Russia is spread over all climatic zones except tropical. It takes over 8 hours by plane to reach from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. West of the Ural mountains from the

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says the excited General Sands as he welcomes his partners and visitors. The entryways not far behind the Mississippi. The mooring bits inside the lock wail like coyotes as the water and the vessel go down. The pilothouse of the Mississippi is a wide great looking room straightforwardly over the parlor what's more, also fronted with a mass of windows. It has guide and-outline tables, consoles of electronic gear, repetitive radars. The pilots stand up front, as trim and trig as pilots of the air—John

The Panama Canal: One Canal, Three Chief Engineers In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt called his first chief engineer for the Panama Canal Project into his office and ordered him to “make the dirt fly!” However, the enormous task of planning, designing, and engineering a path to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would prove to be one of the most expensive and challenging projects ever attempted in the history of the world. Panama’s natural obstacles, climate, soil type, and various deadly

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