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Rajoo Rajbhar had attended the same maritime academy before joining Kumar on the Albedo.
Mr. Ahmed, an immigrant from Pakistan, is a generation older than Mr. Russell, but he, too, attended a maritime academy — though his was in Karachi, not New York.
Most tug captain's licenses now require at least three years' training at sea, if not a four-year degree from a maritime academy.
When his cousin A.J. graduated from maritime academy, he added, his grandfather half-jokingly tried to send him to their rivals, the Morans, for his first job.
Until the previous year, when he left his home in rural India to enroll in a maritime academy in Kolkata, he had never seen a body of water larger than the lake near his family's farm.
In less than five years after graduating from a local maritime academy, Mr. Russell rose from mate — the lowest licensed rank on the ferry — to become a captain of one of the biggest boats in the city's fleet.
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Crew members, once veterans plucked from the salty world of tugboats and commercial shipping, now often arrive directly from maritime academies.
Called The Harbor School, this educational experiment has now proven its value, growing in size and stature, and placing its graduates in jobs, often marine-related, as well as college and the maritime academies in the United States and elsewhere.
Ships no longer navigate by dead reckoning or even by sighting the sun or stars; indeed, celestial navigation is no longer taught at the maritime academies as constant accurate positioning can be placed on viewable electronic charts, verified by multiple satellite connections and moving in real time with the ship.
Most maritime academies offer placement services to help you find your first job and develop qualifications along your career path.
One difference between the Cadet Appointments Program and appointments programs at the federal military academies is that the Maritime scholarship recipients must still pay for their room and board.
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