After completing our final COVID tests, we left dock in Tampa Bay and began our track out into the Gulf of Mexico and up the United States’ eastern coast.

Welcome on another busy day aboard the Corwith Cramer, where we are preparing to leave the dock!

Perhaps you have paid close attention to our ship’s name, the SSV Corwith Cramer.  Sailing School Vessel. That means no passengers, only crew, so the students have a fair bit of training to complete before we can safely head out to sea.

WOODS HOLE, MASS. — The college students listed below recently arrived aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer to spend the next five weeks at sea studying the marine ecosystem of coastal and near-coastal East Coast waters and the western Sargasso Sea.

Everyone was very glad to get off the bus this morning (around 1100) and finally be free of our face masks!

Students enrolled in SEA Semester class C-297, Marine Biodiversity & Conservation, join the SSV Corwith Cramer in St. Petersburg, Florida on April 13th for a five week passage to Woods Hole, where they arrive May 20th.

SEA is seeking an entrepreneurial Dean of Admissions to lead the strategy and team that connects fantastic students with our one-of-a-kind programs.

SEA Semester alumnus Bryant Jew, C-276, is the recipient of the 2021 Armin E. Elsaesser III Fellowship Award. Bryant is using his award to build a working Hawaiian style dugout canoe while creating videos to teach the public about such vessels and the culture that surrounds them. This is his first update.

In recognition of the epic voyage of the SSV Robert C. Seamans last year, Tall Ships America last week honored SEA Captain Sean Bercaw, the crew of the Seamans, and SEA’s Marine Operations and Academic Program teams with its 2020 Tall Ships America Reimagination Award.

SEA Professor of Oceanography Jan Witting is the co-author of a research article, “Historical Trends of Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) Distribution in the Phoenix Archipeligo,” published January 12th in Frontiers in Marine Science.