Featured MarEx Print Article: CMES Online, Long distance and Leading the Way

Taken from our August 2008 print edition, Managing Editor Joseph Keefe vets and evaluates the first U.S. Coast Guard-approved long distance learning STCW course.

It shouldn’t be surprising that an internationally certified (DNV) Maritime Simulator and Training Center is the recognized leader in distance learning for professional mariners. It also shouldn’t be surprising that this same school has developed the only online distance learning system for STCW applications that has been approved by the United States Coast Guard. The fact that this Distance Learning Management System (patents applied for) isn’t considered by its inventors to be a panacea for most maritime training applications shouldn’t necessarily raise your eyebrows either. What all of this could eventually mean to the world of professional maritime training, however, just might. And it should.