Decades of experience in Alaska's
marine environment...
Norseman Maritime Charters is
an owner-operated organization. Why is this important? Because it
is their names, experience and reputations that go into each and
every research plan and mission. When you talk with Norseman
Maritime Charters, you are talking with the owners. Your successful
research mission or expedition is their success also. They have focused
years of experience on the design of Norseman and Norseman
II—experience gained by sailing the oceans of the world.
The seaworthiness and safety of these ships are testimony to the
high standards, quality and design that they demand of their vessels
and crews. The extensive knowledge and experience that the Norseman
Maritime Charters team brings to each project results in cost-effective,
efficient, and smoothly operating oceangoing research platforms.
Norseman Maritime Charters is
run by a small group of active investor-owners who have a wide range
of experience in maritime operations. They include two U.S. Coast
Guard officers (retired) with distinguished experience in arctic
operations and flight operations. Other team members have logged
extensive careers that include marine engineering/operations, commercial
fisheries, and the Merchant Marine.
Bruce Whittemore,
naval architect and Norseman & Norseman II designer
Capt. Paul Tate has years of
sailing experience in Western Alaska, including the Bering Sea. He
served four years in the U.S. Coast Guard (two in Alaska), four years
as captain of the Bering Sea crabbers "Bering
Sea" and "Columbia," and 19 years as captain of a
140-foot corporate motor yacht. While living in Dutch Harbor, Capt.
Tate regularly cruised to the Pribilofs and Eastern Aleutians in
his 38-foot cutter-rigged sailboat. He holds a B.S. in Fisheries
Science from the University of Washington, and served nine years
as a fisheries management biologist for the Alaska Department of
Fish and Game (four of the nine years he was stationed in the Bering
Sea and Aleutians).
Capt. Barton
Campbell has extensive experience in Western Alaska, as well as the
Russian Far East. Captain Campbell began his fishing career working
with experimental gear along the sea ice edge of the Northern Bering
Sea, fishing these waters as far north as ice permitted. During the
1980’s
he served as captain of Trident Seafoods’ catcher/processor, Bountiful,
operating in the Chukchi Sea and Kotzebue Sound, north of the Seward
Peninsula. From 1990-99, Capt. Campbell fished the Bering Sea as
captain of the 290 ft. factory trawler, Endurance, that
included late winter operations among ice in Russia’s Kuril
Islands and Sea of Okhotsk.
When you plan and execute
a research mission with Norseman Maritime
Charters, it is these individuals, and their decades of experience,
that you will have by your side.
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