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Now accepting applications for the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters! The dates are as follows:
Do I need to be a U. Maine student to participate?
Each SEAmester student is a full member of the crew aboard Spirit of Massachusetts--there are no passengers on this voyage! Everything we do aboard requires leadership, teamwork, and cooperation; we live in a community that requires it. The vessel is under the watchful eyes and hands of her crew 24-7. Each student will be a member of a 'watch,' a team of crew members that work together four hours at a time to navigate, handle sail, prepare food--whatever it takes to keep the vessel and her crew sailing and safe. Each watch is led by a licensed mariner, or mate, and a deckhand. With each passing week, our participants will earn more responsibility and take on challenging, and rewarding, leadership roles.
SEAmester students sail to over a dozen ports of call and experience a vast array of environments and cultures over the course of their voyage. From tropical isles and rainforests to barrier islands and maritime forests, West Indian street food to Virginia crab picks. Here is a small sample of our favorite ports, what SEAmester students do there, and how it relates to our coursework. Click on the map to the left, and the blue cruise track most resembles what the spring SEAmester trip will look like, though SEAmester will be unique and the itinerary fluid. Below are some descriptions of our favorite ports of call along this route:
There will be 12 credits offered in SEAmester. The courses, in short, will encompass history, literature, marine science, and nautical science and seamanship, and will be taught throughout the trip both at sea and while ashore. Fully integrated into the voyage, your studies will directly relate to the environment and places we visit and will often have an interdisciplinary relationship to each other. For example, while crossing the Gulf Stream you will learn about its physical properties and how its warm waters affect ocean life, as well as the current's importance in the history of human settlement on the American continents. While on watch you'll use what you learn in navigation / seamanship to navigate the vessel safely across the sea, correcting for current, wind, and steerage.
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