Charting new courses: Student mariners prepare to navigate a warmer Arctic

Glenn Burleigh practices piloting a tanker with a damaged rudder. (Photo by Zoë Sobel, Alaska’s Eergy Desk – Unalaska)In a windowless room at Maine Maritime Academy, Glenn Burleigh is standing calmly at the controls of a massive tanker. He is stuck, encased in a sea of ice, waiting for an icebreaker to break him free.
When help arrives, the rescue doesn’t go as planned.
“I think this is one of the situations where things do go wrong,” Burleigh said. “I se