Traditional Navigation Program
The College of Micronesia-FSM is scheduled to start a Traditional Navigation Program on June 1, 2020 at FSM-FMI in Yap in collaboration with Okeanos Foundation. The college is promoting alternative sustainable water transportation for the future of the people of FSM. The college in collaboration with Okeanos Foundation is recruiting ten students for “Traditional Navigation and applied Seamanship on offshore sailing canoes”. Interested students must be citizens of FSM, high school graduates, and healthy individuals.
The program will be taught by Grand Master Navigator Ali Haleyalur of the Weriyeng School of Navigation. The applied Seamanship part of the program will be taught by Okeanos Grand Master Navigator Peia Patai.
Anyone interested in joining the traditional navigation program should contact one of the following:
- Tioti B. Teburea at tioti@comfsm.fm or
- Karen Simion at ksimion@comfsm.fm
