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68Maritime Reporter & Engineering News FEATURE TRAINING & EDUCATION Familiarization Tales BC Ferries Leads in Innovative Training Practices BC Ferries has advanced the state-of-the-art in familiarization training and clear- ance, implementing what they call the ?SEA Program? ? which stands for ?Standardized Education and Assessment?. Once fully rolled out, it will be used for on-the-job familiarization and clearance for all 3,500 operational employees across the deck, engineering, catering and terminals departments.By Murray Goldberg, Marine Learning Systems & Jeff Joyce, BC Ferries MR Nov.11 # 9 (65-73):MR Template 11/2/2011 3:23 PM Page 68