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One of TUMSAT’s 12-oar cutters being rowed by students near the university campus.

are crewed with one man per oar as well This will qualify him for a berth on the land that impact marine resources as the opment of ? shery skills and tools. Later as a captain on the rudder and a chanter Umitaka-maru for a total of four months ocean is too vast to reach. in life she pioneered the onboard pro- to call the stroke with a pace set by the next year and then seven months the A short distance from the boathouse cessing of crabs. Today, the Unyo-maru captain. Tsukada, who does coordina- year after. The trips will take him down is the school’s original training ship, the and the university’s training vessels, tion work for the team, said that there the coast of Australia and into Antarc- Unyo-maru, the most visible feature of stand as symbols of the commitment of were occasional one-kilometer races for tic waters. After graduation, Yamada is the Shinagawa campus from the Haneda the Tokyo University of Marine Science women with smaller six-oar and six-me- looking forward to a career as a deck Airport monorail. A barque-type sailing and Technology to excellence in nautical ter boats but that these are not common. of? cer on deep-sea vessels. Tsukada, on ship built in 1909, it was brought ashore training, ocean and ? sheries research.

Tsukada is in her ? rst year at the the other hand, has not decided whether in 1962 and set up on static display. For At the entrance to the 3,000-student

School of Marine Resources & Environ- to get involved with environmental is- the ? rst 20 years of her life, she contrib- university, a sign proudly declares it to ment while Yamada is in his third year sues on land or on water. She is inclined, uted to whaling training, ? shery investi- be one of the twenty best of the world’s in the School of Marine Technology. she says, to address human activity on gation, student training, as well as devel- small universities.

Photo: Courtesy of TUMSAT Photo: Alan Haig-Brown

Shinyo-maru: with a length of 64.55 meters, she sails the Paci? c and Indian Oceans for on board training in marine technology subjects, trolling, squid ? shing and long line tuna ? shing.

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