Today was our first step into boat life and my 21st birthday. I was woken up at 0100 for my first watch of the trip with Caroline.

We finally boarded the Corwith Cramer today!

Students enrolled in SEA Semester Class C-295, Caribbean Reef Expedition, join the SSV Corwith Cramer in Key West on Nov. 23rd for a month-long voyage in the Florida Reef Tract, ending in Key West on Dec. 23rd. There are no scheduled port stops.

We board the SSV Corwith Cramer tomorrow! It’s been a long road to get here already (literally and figuratively), and we haven’t yet set eyes on the ship. We’ll run you through some of the details.

On November 5th, the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA) honored SEA as a recipient of its 2020 Marine Environment Protection Awards.

This blog post is a recounting of the events of 17 November 2020.  The final full day of C-294 onboard the Corwith Cramer.

On many of my SEA Semester programs, I have the pleasure of writing a blog post like this one near the end of a voyage.

… And to remember these times and minds, we have created a list of the 35 things we will miss the most for the 34 people and the ship we are leaving behind:

After standing the first few dark, cold lookouts up North, and realizing we didn’t really know as many songs as we had thought, we needed a new method to help pass the hours.

Sitting on the quarterdeck in the hot sun and listening to my classmates present the many things they’ve discovered through their research projects, I reflect on a smaller discovery of my own: my favorite sentence in the world is, “Nobody really knows.”