During their over 1,000,000 nautical miles sailed the Sea Education Association (SEA) has been teaching people to “love the sea.” Three distinct three-week-long programs are offered for high school students interested in the sea, science, sailing, and in search of adventure. Modeled after SEA’s innovative college program, SEA Semester, (www.SEA.edu), the high school summer seminars consist of a Shore and Sea Component.

Science at SEA is an interdisciplinary look at the marine environment taking place on SEA’s campus in Woods Hole, MA and sailing a circumnavigation of Cape Cod. Oceanography of the Gulf of Maine studies the intertidal zone of Appledore Island, NH at the Shoals Marine Laboratory and makes a transit on the waters between Cape Cod and coastal Maine. Three college credits are granted through Cornell University for completing Oceanography of the Gulf of Maine. Lastly, Oceanography of the Southern California Bight explores the ecology of Catalina Island, CA in conjunction with the University of Southern California’s Wrigley Marine Institute and makes a voyage through California’s Channel Islands. Three college credits will be earned for completing Oceanography of the Southern California Bight.

Time during the Shore Component of the program is spent living in community, and studying coastal ecology, general oceanography, navigation and maritime history. The Sea Component is spent aboard one of SEA’s 134’ brigantine sailing vessels, the SSV Corwith Cramer or the SSV Robert C. Seamans in either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean respectively.

Students are immersed in all operations of a modern sailing research vessel: collecting scientific data, setting and striking sails, operating the sophisticated equipment, and helping in the ship’s galley. It is an experience unmatched anywhere in the world!

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