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SVC Marine Tech Center preps sailboat for major voyage

A 48-foot sailboat at the Skagit Valley College Marine Technology Center in Anacortes is making a world of difference for SVC students.

Soon it will make a difference in the world as well.

The One Ocean, on display at an open house last Friday, will embark with a five-member crew next spring on a 14-month voyage around North and South America to spread awareness about oceanic health through education and the collaboration of crucial scientific research.

"It's like a Jacques Cousteau floating science research boat," La Conner resident Allan Olson, a friend of Mark Shrader, skipper of the One Oc...

 

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