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Kings Point Sponsors

Guest Lectures On

Offshore Oil Drilling

A special elective course related to the burgeoning- offshore oil-drill- ing industry and featuring guest lectures by prominent members of the field, will be offered at the U.S.

Merchant Marine Academy, Kings

Point, N.Y., on April 8, 1974.

The offshore field has undergone rapid growth in the last year, with

Kings Point graduates in demand as mates and engineers aboard drilling ships and their supply ves- sels. The Academy's Department of

Nautical Science is sponsoring the elective course to help interested midshipmen train for this field, which remains a viable means of offsetting the effects of a depleted supply of land-based oil reserves.

The schedule of topics and speak- ers is:

April 8—"History of the Off- shore Industry," Comdr. P. Nazza- ro, USMMA.

April 22—"Design and Operation of Jack-Up Rigs," Del McCord,

Penrod Drilling Co.

April 29—''Design and Operation of Semi-Submersible Rigs," Enoch

Dawkins, ODECO, Inc.

May 6—"Building Offshore Plat- forms and Pipe Laying," Capt. A.

C. Peters, Brown & Root.

May 13—"Diving for Offshore

Work," J. Johnson, Oceaneering,

Inc.

May 20—"Tug Requirements for

Offshore Rigs," Capt. L. Westdyck,

Smit International.

June 3—"Logistic Support Ves- sels," Capt. William Mayberry,

OMSA.

June 10—"Personnel Require- ments and Job Descriptions," rep- resentative of Reading & Bates Co.

MMA Receives

Surplus Navy Tug And

Exxon Education Grant

Maine Maritime Academy re- cently became the recipient of a tugboat which was released as sur- plus by the U.S. Navy. The 600-ton tug arrived at MMA from New- port, R.I., and will be incorporated into the Academy's training pro- gram after some overhauling and refitting in preparation for Coast

Guard inspection.

The tug is in the YTM Class (Yard Tug Medium), which is most commonly used in docking opera- tions in harbors. The vessel meas- ures 100 feet in length and 26 feet in width, and has a 1,000-horse- power single-screw diesel electric engine. It has a maximum cruising speed of 12 knots, although normal speed would be around 8 knots.

The Academy plans to use the tug as a replacement for the Path- finder, a yard patrol boat which the

Academy has used the past few years in the small boat, piloting and marine training program.

The addition of the new tugboat to the Academy's program should help to open new areas of study, training and operations in the small boat and tug-towboat practical training.

The tug will be docked in Castine across from the T/V State of

Maine.

Maine Maritime Academy was also a recent recipient of a $1,500 education grant from the Exxon

USA Foundation, Houston, Texas.

The grants, awarded to selected 0( * = / « = 1 )0 • * 4 l IF

END & SIDE TRANSFER educational institutions throughout the nation, are designed to support a variety of programs such as scholarships, research, purchase of equipment and other projects to promote excellence in education.

The $1,500 check from Exxon was presented to Adm. E.A. Rod- gers, Academy Superintendent, by

E.W. McNeil Jr., administrative manager of Exxon's marine depart- ment in Houston, at MMA's recent

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K^A Vv Pl"*™ *' ~ i annual Faculty and Staff Symposi- um. Mr. McNeil, who was one of several oil company executives who addressed the gathering, also visit- ed with several senior midshipmen about possible employment place- ment with Exxon.

Admiral Rodgers stated that the money will be used to support the

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