Week One: Ships

Welcome to the first week of class. 

If you are interested in being a Crew Leader, here is the link: (https://forms.gle/2hktRTrAa8Ks1W8bA), deadline February 5, 2020.  

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CLASS EXPECTATIONS

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1. Follow this blog and read/watch the resources each week.

2. Meet once a week online at Google Hangouts to discuss and report your thoughts and progress. Class time should be about 30-60 minutes online (depends on the discussion that day), and begins at 3:30pm on Google Hangouts, each Wednesday from February 12, 2020 until the last day of the semester, April 29, 2020. During the online class, courtesy is expected and participation is encouraged.

3. Read a nautical book: Each week you will report on what you thought/learned from a nautical book. You can take a whole semester to read one book, or you could read more than one, up to you.

Here are several we would suggest, but feel free to ask for approval to read a different sea-based book: Carry On Mr. Bowditch, Two Years Before the Mast, Treasure Island, Around the World in 80 Days, True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle, The Old Man and the Sea, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Peter and the Starcatchers, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Moby Dick, Kidnapped, Slave Dancer, Captain Blood.

4. Submit a weekly report form before the online Wednesday class (found here and at the bottom of every week's post: https://forms.gle/bdnha13cqqi9Artn6). It's simple--just a couple sentences on what you learned about oceanography & marine biology. This will help you be better prepared for the class discussion and report. This survey also invites you to share any other oceanography/marine biology resources you think should be included.

Follow these four expectations and you will wring out the most of your class experience and onboard ship experience.

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WEEK ONE RESOURCES

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A.       Next online class is on February 5 at 3:30pm through Google Hangouts. 

B.       Choose a nautical/maritime/sailor/sea/ocean book and read in it this week. Be prepared to report on what you learned/read/thought about it at Wednesday's online class. You decide which book from the list (or get approval by suggesting an alternative title on your weekly report, link at the bottom of this post). You decide how much to read.

C.        Check out any or all of the resources below. Be prepared to share what you learned/thought about these. Feel free to add any other resources you think should be included (add by sharing the link(s) in your weekly report, link at the bottom of this post).

Check out these YouTube videos about tall ships:

This shows the brigantine tall ship we will be sailing on June 2020:

How the Top Sail Program started with some footage of the boat we'll be using:

These two videos show the tall ship we used for the 2014 excursion:

Photos from June 2014 trip: https://s28.photobucket.com/user/sallycat27/library/June%2520Odyssey-Utah PASSWORD: oceans11

Watch this vlog on YouTube. This vlogger takes us on a tour of a tall ship in Ireland. Note: Unlike this vlogger, we don't sleep in hammocks, we sleep in sleeping bags on bunks. 

Watch this video on tall ships. It talks about sailing them (require large crews, difficult to handle)

Read this document to see Parts of a Tall Ship (no quiz, just for familiarity).

Here's a short video showing one of the LA Maritime Institute ships going into dry dock. Note how the ship is lifted out of the water so they clean her undersides?

Click here to send in your WEEKLY Report link (send before next Wednesday's class at 3:30pm)

Questions/Concerns/Compliments/Thoughts Etc? Click here for the form to communicate anytime.