Membership Group Highlights

Maryland Pilots in Class at MITAGS
Members of the Association of Maryland Pilots were at MITAGS in January to attend a matrix of courses that included Bridge Resource Management and ECDIS-ENAV. (Left to right) Eric Pickett, Noah Seiple, MITAGS instructor Richard Madden, Michael Lavin, Timothy Arey, Nicholas Nastasi, Eric Shea, Kevin Hanna, Christopher Leach and Harry Scott. The Association of Maryland […]

CHIMACUM Captain Hails Crew for Rescue
The crew of the Washington State Ferry MV Chimacum rescued a woman who had gone overboard on Thanksgiving Day while the vessel was on its regular run from Bremerton to Seattle. There was no information on how the passenger ended up in the water. When she was spotted off Duwamish Head near West Seattle, the […]

New U.S. Coast Guard cutter heading to work Great Lakes
News from Michigan Live which writes: LAKE SUPERIOR – More than a year after it arrived at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore for a scheduled maintenance overhaul to prep it for its Great Lakes assignment, the 225-foot cutter Spar is on its way to its new home port in Lake Superior. Below is […]

Transit – Hammernesodden Norway
Another image shared by Captain Wilbur Dahn III, USNS SISLER – Transit in Hammernesodden Norway – photo by Steve Drexler, MSCEURAF OSO Reserve Affairs.

USNS SISLER Looking a Bit Chilly
This great winter image was shared by Captain Wilbur Dahn III, USNS SISLER, who included a note about the conditions in Hammernesodden Norway – the Fjord is starting to ice up, but not bad.

M/V MAUNALEI Trip to Alaska
Sent to us from Captain Christy Pekara, this image was taken by Pilot Frank Smith. From the left: 3AE Phyllis Prokopich, 3M Jordie Guasch, Bosun Rhonda Benoit, Captain Christy Pekara, 2M Molly McQuiston, and (in back) AB Kim Hoogendam.