MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY

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MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY

• Ocean Towing Program

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At Maine Maritime

• We Dont Just Simulate
• We do The REAL THING!!

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Maine Maritimes Tug PENTAGOET
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A perfect vessel for training !
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PENTAGOET Running Free
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Cleanest Engine RoomIn the Business
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Students Learn Engine RoomSystems and Procedures
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Every time the tug is underway we try and have
students along.Trip to Gardiner, Tug muster 2005
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Tug Barge Lab Starts at 0600 !
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Students report Aboard0530
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Pre-voyage tests and log keeping work for todays
lab
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keeping current on the new tools...
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as well as the traditional.
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Every one rotates through all the duties.
Captain, Mate, Engineer and Utility
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Making up to the BargeO-Dark Thirty
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Warning Student Drivers!!
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Mastering the skills through hands on
repetition
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Students get focusedInstruction
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Working on a Hawser
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Rounding up alongside
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Made up alongside after retrieving the Tow
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Streaming out the Tow
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Backing Line ready On-A-Bite
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Where the rubber meets the steel !
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More SupervisedInstruction
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Underway Again
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A little leisure time
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Picking up a mooring exercise
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Pushing the Barge Heads Tails
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Supervised Deck instructionFrom the guy in the
Middle
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Lots of repetition.Stern controls
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Learning Teamwork
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Beautiful photo On the Hawser
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Docking Drills whileMade up Alongside
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Learning to be a good deckhand makes a better
captain !
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Preparing to enter the notch
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Success.Safety-Line made up
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Push-WiresMade up
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Made up in the Notch Pushing Ahead
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Approaching the DockDocking drill in the Notch
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Piloting the Penobscot River.
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You have Witnessed Maine Maritime Academys

• TUG and BARGE PROGRAM
• Includes
• Towing on the Hawser
• Towing Alongside
• Notch Operations

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TOWING OFFICER ASSESSMENT RECORDT.O.A.R.
Each Student completes a TOAR and is an important
class focus. Instructors are Designated
Examiners for the U.S.C.G
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Local Pilots and Tugs invite Students to observe
ship dockings
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Using Local Tug and Barge Traffic as a classroom
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all in a days work
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