Maritime Training on the GREAT LAKES & BEYOND

摘要

The Great Lakes Maritime Academy (GLMA) in Traverse City, Mich., is more than a college experience-it's a fully immersive, hands-on training experience for deck and engineering officers who plan to enter the commercial shipping industry. The academy says it also prepares college students to become merchant marine officers and business professionals in the global marketplace. Its training ship, the T/S State of Michigan, is utilized daily as a floating classroom and hands-on learning environment. To reinforce skills taught shore side, students and instructors set sail on the Great Lakes throughout the academic year. And as cadets progress through the academy, they obtain essential sea time aboard commercial ships on both the Great Lakes and oceans.