“Now hear this, now hear this…” is the prelude to pipes announcements that are part of life at sea. Just one of a thousand things to which you learn to pay attention—some obvious, some not—like having a sense the ship is turning while underway just by sound and the change in its vibration.
As has been the case for generations at MMA, when this year’s cruise is complete, having carried nearly 280 students, crew and staff to ports from Charleston to across the Atlantic and back twice, the midshipmen who walk down the gang plank will be different from when they departed Castine on May 10.