The 10-day "Jake Peirson Summer Cruise" with Sea Education Association (SEA) is organized for Joint Program students their first summer. It is optional; some people never go. They do not know what they are missing. From past participants:
On this cruise we also had a task to make a "water retrieval device" from stuff around us... Our team won with the IPFRASWTAS (Inflatable Puffer Fish for Retrieval and Analysis of Sea Water Temperature And Salinity) device.
...Atop the second platform, I ventured further to the topmost ratlin, shaken slightly by wind, not frightened, but satisfied with that limit.
To appreciate this sailing, working, and bonding experience, read these first-hand accounts:
