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SOCP Meeting to be Webcast on Oct. 16-17 via TVWorldwide.com’s Maritime TV Channel
Positive Response from Past Meeting Webcasts Continues to Drive Sponsorship for Web Coverage of Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP)Meetings
at www.maritimetv.com
Webcast Sponsors Include Crowley, NOAA, MARAD, DyconCorp, Viswalab and Filtrex
Event Page
For Immediate Release
October 16, 2001
Chantilly, Va.- MaritimeTV.com, an Internet TV channel on the TVWorldwide.com
network, announced today that it will provide live web coverage of the Ship Operations
Cooperative Program (SOCP) meeting to be held October 16-17 at the Sheraton Norfolk
Waterside in Norfolk, Va. The meeting, hosted by Maersk Lines, will focus on Mariner
Recruitment and Retention Issues as a follow-up to the May 23-24 Maritime Careers
Conference held at Kings Point, N.Y. A panel, including RADM Robert C. North (Ret)
and working group leaders will report and discuss Mariner Recruitment and Retention
working group activities. In addition there will be a discussion panel addressing
STCW 95 impacts on mariner recruitment and retention. Time will also be allotted
for the breakout and discussion of the Mariner Recruitment and Retention working
groups.
The featured luncheon speaker will be CAPT. John A. Gentile, The U.S. Coast
Guard’s Commanding Officer of Training Center Yorktown. A Smart Card panel
will report on its working group activities, and MARAD will report on the BTS
Mariner Survey.
Speakers will be able to communicate with colleagues in the industry who could
not attend in person via a live, interactive video webcast. The webcast will
offer worldwide participation on-line and be recorded on video in its entirety
and compressed and archived for later viewing at www.maritimeTV.com through
a link from the SOCP web site home page at www.socp.org.
“We’re very excited to again be offering the meeting proceedings
on the web,” commented SOCP co-chairman Lee Kincaid. “ In addition
to allowing members who could not attend the opportunity to participate, we
will be offering the meeting to the entire industry for interactive participation.
We encourage sponsorship participation from our membership to make this possible.”
“The interactive webcast provides a whole new perspective to an SOCP meeting
and we’re glad we could raise sufficient sponsorship funding to cover the
costs of the live event,” stated Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TVWorldwide.com.
“In March and June we saw how the webcast worked to enhance communication
among maritime industry professionals, part of the SOCP mission. We look forward
to doing it again in Norfolk. This is part of our ongoing effort to make our
new MaritimeTV channel a community forum, driven by interactive video content
relating to the industry.”
Participants should have the free Real Player installed on their browser prior
to the event and should log on by 8:45 AM on October 16. Technical questions
can be directed to 703-961-9250, ext. 223 before and during the event. The event
will be archived through a link on the SOCP home page to www.maritimetv.com
for later viewing by those who couldn’t attend live and also made available
for syndication to interested maritime sites nationwide.
The Maritime TV Channel (www.maritimetv.com), specializes in the production
of video-based content for the international maritime community. Streaming video
service provider TVWorldwide.com, is building a network of Internet TV Channels
like Maritime TV Channel, each aimed at B2B and special interest audiences worldwide.
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