Capt. Richard Phillips, master of the Maersk Alabama who’s been held hostage since Wednesday, was rescued late this morning Eastern time.  It’s been reported that when the pirates were sleeping or otherwise unaware, he made another attempt to escape and jumped overboard, at which point the Navy was able to neutralize the pirates.  Of the …

The recent turn of events for the Maersk Alabama has had an interesting and prominent connection to Mass Maritime.  As I reported in my last post, both the captain and the Chief Mate on board that ship are Academy graduates, as well as the mate being the son of one of our professors, Capt. Joseph …

This blog has been reborn, for a completely different purpose. I’ve decided to use this blog to talk about life as a cadet at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and other maritime-related information. This decision came on the heels of returning from MMA’s Sea Term 2008, during which I kept a blog about the trip which got …

With such an overwhelmingly positive response I received from my blog about Sea Term, I have decided to continue it, and use it as a medium to discuss cadet life at MMA. I’ll begin this once the spring semester starts next week.  I’ll also be changing the blog title to reflect this. Please feel free …