Marine
Technology prepares students for employment as technicians
in the marine scientific community through classroom participation
and practical application. Training in a wide range of
shipboard observational and measurement techniques is
accomplished aboard various research vessels including
CFCC's own vessel, the R/V Dan Moore, a 30-meter fisheries
research vessel formerly operated by the State of North
Carolina Division of Commercial and Sports Fisheries.
All students spend a minimum of 30 days
at sea during their two years in the program. Additional
periods are spent off campus conducting marine projects
relating to the estuaries, bays, and marshes of the area.
The program is approved by the department of community
colleges to conduct cooperative education programs with
sponsoring marine agences. Credits are often transferable
to four year institutions offering related degrees. In
addition to the Dan Moore, the school also operates a
variety of small craft and has its own dock, chemical
and biological laboratories, net loft, fishing gear shop,
electrical lab, welding shop, woodworking shop, and oceanographic
equipment repair and calibration facility.