Welcome and Seminar Overview

Clay Maitland, Founding Chairman, NAMEPA

Keynote Speech - Regulatory Overview

RADM Roy Nash, USCG

Enviornment Updates

Doug Martin, Smit Salvage Americas

The Regulations

Jon Waldron, Blank Rome

SEEMP

Tom Kirk, American Bureau of Shipping

OWS

Alexandra Anagnostis - President, Total Marine Solutions

Operational Challenges

R. Bradley O'Neill, Lone Star Harbor Safety Committee

Dead Iron/Platform Abandonment in the Gulf

TJ Broussard, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

Seafarer Updates

Patrick Kelly, Kirby

STCW/MLC

Captain Anuj Chopra, Anglo-Eastern Ship Management

Life on Board

James Spear, USCG-Licensed Third Officer

The State of the Seafarer

Karen Parson, Seafarers Center of Galveston

Training the Seafarer

Captain Augusta (Gussie) D. Roth - Director & Assistant Superintendent for STCW & Academics, Texas Maritime Academy, Texas A&M