A day in the life of... Scott Kennedy MIIMS


Recently, Scott Kennedy took up the post of Chairman of the IIMS Canada Branch at the Annual General Meeting following Lachlan Mackenzie’s decision to step down. Mike Schwarz went in search of the new man at the top to find out more about him and his background.


Q1. Before you settled on a career in marine surveying, what did you do before after leaving school?


Both my grandfather and father were ship’s Masters so I guess it was inevitable that a life at sea was my calling. I graduated from the Canadian Coast Guard College in 1984 and started as a navigation officer right away. By 1990 I had earned a Master Mariner’s Certificate. The adventure and comradery of a sea going career was only surpassed by the adventure and thrill of starting a family. So, in 1991 an opportunity presented itself to come ashore and become a Marine Surveyor for the Canadian marine administration (Transport Canada Marine Safety & Security).


Q2. What made you decide a career in marine surveying was for you and have you ever regretted it?


During the last three years of my sea going career, I had worked as Chief Officer aboard Canada’s largest Search & Rescue ship off


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the east coast of Newfoundland & Labrador… the north Atlantic, is a rather unforgiving body of water. Unprepared vessels and mariners are no match for the power of the ocean, and Search & Rescue operations in the north Atlantic seldom have happy endings. I felt if I could do


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