Meet the Team
The Seattle Maritime Academy faculty are all active or retired merchant mariners with years of experience and real-life sea stories to enhance the curriculum. In addition, our dedicated staff – many of whom are also former mariners – are committed to each student’s successful completion of their training program.
Administrative/Operational Staff
- Dale Bateman – Associate Dean
- Danny Blanchard – Port Captain
- Kelly Greenwood – Port Captain & Vessel Captain
- Barbara Ceiga – Administrative Assistant
- Vacant – Port Engineer
- Mark Pickett – Simulator Operator & Vessel Captain
Faculty
- Meredith Anderson – Engineering Instructor
- Al Bruce – Engineering Instructor
- Thomas Crotty – Engineering Instructor
- Christopher DiNottia – Deck Instructor & Vessel Captain
- Robert Earle – Deck Instructor & Vessel Captain
- Robert Reeder – Deck Instructor
- Steve Rochester – Engineering Instructor
- Robert van Kregten – Engineering Instructor