08-23-11 San Diego 6 News at 10 -- TS Golden Bear arrives in San Diego

On Monday, August 22, approximately 225 cadets and 50 officers and staff members will pull into the B Street Pier at the Port of San Diego onboard The California Maritime Academy's 500-foot Training Ship Golden Bear. San Diego is the final stop before the ship heads "back to school" to Vallejo-based Cal Maritime, a campus of The California State University, in anticipation of the start of the fall semester.

The ship logged a total of 24,000 nautical miles during the two, two-month-long training voyages it took this summer. The voyages are part of the specialized curriculum offered at Cal Maritime. For the duration of each training cruise, students have been responsible for running the ship from stem to stern, including navigating and driving the ship, repairing and overseeing the engines, and maintaining the vessel.

In addition to San Diego, the training ship made ports of call in Auckland, New Zealand; Wellington, NZ; Brisbane, Australia; Sydney, Australia; American Samoa; Honolulu; and Lahaina, Hawaii. The Golden Bear's visit to New Zealand was an historic one, as it was the first public U.S. vessel to be allowed in New Zealand in nearly a decade.

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