CORWITH CRAMER

Since 1971, Sea Education Association (SEA) has taken young people to sea on voyages of oceanographic and personal discovery.  In 1987, SEA built the Corwith Cramer in Bilbao, Spain, to continue that mission.  SEA Semester combines a six-week voyage under full sail with six weeks of classroom study focused on our ocean planet.  Students take courses in Oceanography, Nautical Science, and Maritime Studies on shore in Woods Hole and then complete the program sailing for six weeks in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean or the Caribbean Sea aboard either the Corwith Cramer or her sister ship, the Robert C. Seamans.  Both ships are fully equipped oceanographic-research vessels certified by the United States Coast Guard as Sailing School Vessels. In addition to SEA Semester, SEA also offers shorter high school programs during the summer.  Students challenge themselves physically, as working members of the ship’s crew and mentally, as scholars researching and writing about the marine and maritime world.