The Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship
The Seafarers Academy / Piney Point / June 2007 The Seafarers Academy From STCW certification to the high seas: the training ground where wanting a maritime life became the discipline required to survive one. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The Thesis The sea does not care what you intended to learn. It only cares what you can do when the alarm sounds. In June 2007, I arrived at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at the Paul Hall Center in Piney Point, Maryland. The dream was the high seas. The work was fire, survival, first aid, discipline, and repetition. This was where adventure stopped being fantasy and became readiness. Field Practice 01 Fire training was the most fun—and the clearest r...