Me: Would you please state your name. Mark Lando Me: How long have you been sailing? Mark: 32 years. Columbia was the first shipping job I had in 1989. I began as an officer. I have been captaining for 22 years. Me: Is there any schooling required to be a captain? Or does experience matter […]
Interview: Patrick, an AB (able-bodied seaman).
Name: Patrick Position: AB (able-bodied seaman). This particular job is a new one for him. Main duty: General maintenance. He switched to this job because he wanted something new. Work Schedule:Regular. He keeps watch in the wheelhouse for four hours (4:00 to 8:00 am), spends four hours on deck, and then he’s on break for […]
Leaving the Sea Behind
Matt McHugh was born and raised in Massachusetts. Following in the steps of his father and friends, he decided to attend the Massachusetts Maritime Academy studying engineering. From there, Matt worked for AmGen, a pharmaceutical company in Los Angeles, automating processes, streamlining workflows, and other very exciting projects. Eventually, because he had gone to a […]
Why is the Sidewalk Moving????
We started the morning attempting to watch a sunrise behind a cloudy sky and gazing at the city lights in the distance. A pod of dolphins greeted us by leaping out of the water, dancing through the waves. The sun slowly but surely broke through the clouds to warm our skin. A pilot hopped aboard […]
About The Third Mate
Audio here(recorded in Galley) The first thing our STEMSEAS crew heard about Langseth’s 3rd Mate, was that you shouldn’t sit in her seat in the galley. We avoided that seat out of respect to the ship’s rules, all the while wondering who was supposed to be occupying it. The first thing we saw of her […]
The Galley Kings
Ricardo and Jim are the Galley Kings of Langseth. This dynamic duo has enough sass and culinary spirit to make even Gordon Ramsey shake in his chef’s coat. They work around the clock 10-12 hours a day cooking for the crew of Langseth. Starting at 5am these courageous chefs perform a balancing act to plan, […]
Who Is Bill?
I was able to Interview Bill Robison, an AB on the Langseth. An AB, which stands for Able Seaman, is a member of the deck department that has many duties around the boat and is considered a jack-of-all-trades; they work from loading/unloading cargo, mooring, standing watch, to directing people in life-threatening situations. Being 1 of […]
Mora (also) Interviews Shaun
As the Chief Science Officer on board the Marcus Langseth, Shaun Shaver is responsible for making sure the scientists and crew on board are following all the permits. This includes when the boat needs to be turned off for certain animals and how data is taken. He is responsible for deploying equipment such as the […]
Norely Interviews Shaun
Shaun Shaver is the chief science officer aboard the Marcus G. Langseth and has been working on seismic vessels since 1982. In that time, he has visited 51 countries, made lasting friendships, and even had a marriage that produced a son. He first became interested in the ship industry at 19 years old through his […]
Musings
Science has long been thought of as an exact subject – there either is or isn’t a correlation; there are no greys in a field so precise. Geosciences are the beautiful anomaly. Where other scientists see rigid lines, we visualize the flexibility in our Earth and apply it to our theories. New discoveries either further […]
