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December 2015 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 9. Waterfront News M A I N E M A R I T I M E A C A D E M Y N E W S


MMA Student Scholars and Faculty Hon- ored at Academic Achievement Awards CASTINE, Maine—Maine Maritime Academy’s annual Academic Achievement Awards banquet was held on Thursday eve- ning, November 5th, to honor the scholarly accomplishments of students and the service of faculty.


Scheel Scholars


The late Henry A. Scheel of Rockport, Maine was one of America’s most respected naval architects and yacht designers. During his long and distinguished career, Mr. Scheel produced more than 250 complete designs which have been utilized by builders of sailboats and other craft in the U.S. and Eu- rope. To express his high regard for Maine Maritime Academy, Mr. Scheel left funds in 1994 to permanently endow scholarships for students in the three upper classes who best exemplify intellectual curiosity and achievement.


The nine Scheel Scholars honored on Thursday include: Sarah McLean Ander- son, Class of 2017, is a Marine Transporta- tion Operations major from Peterborough, Ontario; Peter Barton, Class of 2016, is a Vessel Operations and Technology major from Cape Elizabeth; Tyler Engelhardt, Class of 2016, is a Power Engineering Tech- nology major from Pittsfi eld; Beretta Ficek, Class of 2017, is a Marine Biology major from Concord, New Hampshire; Andrew McGonagle, Class of 2017, is a Marine Engineering Operations student living in Sedgewick; Hayden Norwood, Class of 2016, is a Marine Engineering Technology major from Bucksport; Elin Sonesson, Class of 2016, is a Marine Systems Engi- neering major from Cape Elizabeth; Haley Turnbull, Class of 2018, is an International Business and Logistics major from Kittery; Cristin Wright, Class of 2017, is a Marine Science / Small Vessel Operations major


EL FARO's Bridge Found, But Not VDR


from Ellsworth. American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Scholars


ABS, a leading international classi-


fi cation society, is devoted to promoting the security of life, property and the ma- rine environment, primarily through the establishment and verifi cation of technical and engineering standards for the design, construction and operational maintenance of ships and marine-related facilities. The ABS Scholarship is awarded to deserving engineering and naval architecture students. Recipients of this prestigious academic award receive a scholarship in each of the fi nal two years of their studies at MMA. They are also provided the opportunity to complete an internship at ABS. ABS award- ed scholarships to these outstanding MMA Marine Systems Engineering students in 2015: Sam Berner – Corinth, Vermont; Foster Blake – Gorham; Christopher Gil- man – Old Town; Taylor Ploch – Old Town; Shawn Silva – Attleboro, MA; Alexander Toth – Sandown, New Hampshire; Cather- ine Bailey – Scarborough; Brady MacLeod – Bucksport; J. Chase Reidelbach – Virgin- ia Beach, Virginia; Elin Sonesson – Cape Elizabeth.


Faculty Achievement The 2015 Excellence in Teaching


Award was presented to Laurie Stone. Associate Professor of Humanities and History, she joined the faculty in 2001 as assistant professor of composition and com- munications. She has taught composition,


management communications, humanities, Japanese, and U.S. History. She was ap- pointed Editor of the Mariner magazine in 2006. While at MMA, she has served as the fi rst Director of the Maritime Aerospace Liaison Project and headed the Study Skills Center for International Students when the Academy matriculated 24 students sent to Castine by United Arab Shipping Co. In 2004, she was exchange professor to Kobe University’s Division of Mercantile Marine in Kobe, Japan.


Prior to coming to Maine Maritime


Academy, Laurie was Professor of English at Miyazaki Women’s Junior College in Miyazaki, Japan for fi ve and a half years. Before that, she was the Science Writing Fellow at Wesleyan University. In 1980 and again in 1981, Laurie had the good fortune to teach high school in Portadown, Northern Ireland and then Belfast, Northern Ireland. She holds degrees from the University of Connecticut (B.A. in English and History), the University of Hartford (MAT in En- glish), and Wesleyan University (CAS in Science and Philosophy). In addition, she studied Japanese in Kyoto, Japan, at Wes- leyan University, and at Central Connecticut State University.


In addition to the Excellence in Teach-


ing Award, three faculty members were honored for promotion to full professor: Dr. Thomas Batt, Professor of Humanities and Composition; Dr. Leon Raikes, Professor of Humanities and Composition; and Dr. Alan Verde, Professor of Ocean Studies.


Commercial & Recreational Marine Suppliers


Tragedy struck the marine commu- nity with the loss the 790-foot cargo ship EL FARO, while making a voyage from Jacksonville to Puerto Rico, when she went missing in hurricane Joaquin on 1 October. Her loss claimed the lives of her 33 crew members and with the loss came the question of why. After the search for survivors was called off and the reality that she had gone down, offi cials wanted answers. The U. S. Coast Guard and the National Transporta- tion Safety Board began doing an inquiry as to what caused the loss of this ship. A lot of questions could be answered if the voyage data recorder (VDR) could be located. The U. S. Navy was asked to search for the vessel and retrieve the VDR. The U. S. Navy sent the tug APACHE out and fi rst she tried to locate the sound emitted


New exhibit explores the history of com- munications at sea


BATH - Maine Maritime Museum will open a new exhibit, Wavelength: The Story of Signals at Sea, on Saturday, November 14, 2015. The exhibit explores the history of communications at sea, from fl ags, bells, and whistles to radio, radar, and GPS. Wavelength will trace the evolution of maritime signals from optical to electronic, including a display of an early Marconi-era steamship’s radio room, along with vintage bells and whistles, lanterns, depth sounders, ship-to-shore, Loran, and other collection rarities. Visitors will be able to experience maritime communications through a variety of hands-on, interactive activities, including an engine-room telegraph and signal fl ag identifi cation, along with demonstrations of actual Morse code transmissions from the gallery using period apparatus. The ex- hibit will be on view in The John G. Morse Gallery at Maine Maritime Museum from


by the VDR, but they heard nothing. They then began searching for the vessel with side-scan sonar. It was not long before they found the hull upright with the stern buried 30 feet into the bottom of the ocean fl oor in 15,000 feet of water. They lowered a ROV (CURV-21) and discovered that the bridge and the next deck down were missing. They continued searching and located the bridge on 11 November, but could not fi nd the mast, which has the VDR attached to its base. They searched another fi ve days and failed to fi nd the VDR.


Finally on 15 November the NTSB


called off the search. Despite not having the VDR, which might have answered a number of questions as to what the cause was, the NTSB hopes to be able to draw a conclusion on the cause of the loss.


Exhibit Wavelength Opens at MMM


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A selection from the Universal Signal Book for Merchant Vessels, 1816.


November 14 through May 15, 2016. Wavelength: The Story of Signals at Sea is generously sponsored by the family of George C. Twombly and General Dynamics/ Bath Iron Works with additional support from Atlantic Motorcar Center.


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