'Be Bold in Thinking but Cautious in Application'

摘要

While growing up, John Waterhouse spent some time in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and it was as a young boy standing on the shores of English Bay, watching ships come in from around the world to load and unload their cargos, when he realized that a maritime career could be his future. "It was in high school when the light bulb went off when I realized that people get paid to design ships. That was it for me," he said. Following his undergrad studies at UC Berkeley, Waterhouse took a year off on a sailboat journey around the Pacific before returning home and taking a position with Nickum and Spauld-ing Associates, a Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm. He eventually went on for his Master's Degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at MIT, returning to Nickum and Spaulding in 1984.