Sea Education Association – Ocean Exploration Gap Year Programs

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Sea Education Association – Ocean Exploration Gap Year Programs

Semester, summer, gap year & high school study abroad programs preparing future ocean scholars, stewards and leaders.

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SEA’s Ocean Exploration Gap Year Programs offer 12-week interdisciplinary gap programs encompassing the natural and social sciences to imbue in students a greater awareness of and appreciation for the ocean. The Ocean Exploration is an extended, educational sailing adventure aboard a tall ship that fosters students’ leadership, teamwork, and research and addresses critical marine conservation topics.

Student participants act as full, working members of the scientific team and sailing crew aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer. Students manage shipboard operations, navigate by the stars, and analyze oceanographic samples while completing the ocean passage from the shores of New England to the tropical islands of the Caribbean. Students may choose between an academic, credit-bearing program or an experiential, not-for-credit program; sailing experience is not required.

Ocean Explorations are offered in both the Fall and Spring, with areas of focus ranging from oceanography to humanities, seamanship, hands-on research, food security, environmental justice, displacement from coastal lands, coral degradation and resource extraction. Participants will investigate and address pressing global issues through a maritime and oceanographic lens.

The SEA program is over 50 years old, and since 1971 has educated more than 10,000 students about global oceans through on-shore preparatory studies and subsequent seaward voyages.