Decades of experience in Alaska's marine environment... Norseman Maritime Charters is an owner-operated organization. Why is this important? Because it is their names, experience and reputations that go into each and every research plan and mission. When you talk with Norseman Maritime Charters, you are talking with the owners. Your successful research mission or expedition is their success also. They have focused years of experience on the design of Norseman and Norseman II—experience gained by sailing the oceans of the world. The seaworthiness and safety of these ships are testimony to the high standards, quality and design that they demand of their vessels and crews. The extensive knowledge and experience that the Norseman Maritime Charters team brings to each project results in cost-effective, efficient, and smoothly operating oceangoing research platforms. Norseman Maritime Charters is run by a small group of active investor-owners who have a wide range of experience in maritime operations. They include two U.S. Coast Guard officers (retired) with distinguished experience in arctic operations and flight operations. Other team members have logged extensive careers that include marine engineering/operations, commercial fisheries, and the Merchant Marine.
Bruce Whittemore, naval architect and Norseman & Norseman II designer
Capt. Paul Tate has years of sailing experience in Western Alaska, including the Bering Sea. He served four years in the U.S. Coast Guard (two in Alaska), four years as captain of the Bering Sea crabbers "Bering Sea" and "Columbia," and 19 years as captain of a 140-foot corporate motor yacht. While living in Dutch Harbor, Capt. Tate regularly cruised to the Pribilofs and Eastern Aleutians in his 38-foot cutter-rigged sailboat. He holds a B.S. in Fisheries Science from the University of Washington, and served nine years as a fisheries management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (four of the nine years he was stationed in the Bering Sea and Aleutians). Capt. Barton Campbell has extensive experience in Western Alaska, as well as the Russian Far East. Captain Campbell began his fishing career working with experimental gear along the sea ice edge of the Northern Bering Sea, fishing these waters as far north as ice permitted. During the 1980’s he served as captain of Trident Seafoods’ catcher/processor, Bountiful, operating in the Chukchi Sea and Kotzebue Sound, north of the Seward Peninsula. From 1990-99, Capt. Campbell fished the Bering Sea as captain of the 290 ft. factory trawler, Endurance, that included late winter operations among ice in Russia’s Kuril Islands and Sea of Okhotsk. When you plan and execute a research mission with Norseman Maritime Charters, it is these individuals, and their decades of experience, that you will have by your side.
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