Our 36th district’s Seattle Central Community College Maritime Academy acquired a former Navy vessel, a great opportunity to expand the school’s training program for merchant mariners and help us secure the workforce for Seattle’s working waterfront.
From the Seattle Times:
The ship called Vigorous began its career as a Navy vessel at the end of the Cold War, working the North Atlantic Ocean and listening for signs of enemy submarines.
Later, it was re-christened the Bold and retrofitted for marine science. It was used by the Environmental Protection Agency for water-quality research in the Florida Keys.
Now, the 224-foot-long Bold is joining the fleet of Seattle Central Community College’s Maritime Academy. The towering ship with the blue hull will become a teaching vessel for merchant-marine training and oceanographic research, and will dock near the Ballard Bridge when it’s not out to sea.
Read the entire piece by Katherine Long in the Seattle Times here.
Photos: EPA