{"id":523362,"date":"2026-03-08T22:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523362\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:47:15","slug":"new-offshore-projects-a-boon-for-marine-institute-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523362\/","title":{"rendered":"New Offshore Projects a Boon for Marine Institute Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/master-mariner-captain-kris-drodge-marine-instiute-monthly-mariner.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"New Offshore Projects a Boon for Marine Institute Programs\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master Mariner Captain Kris Drodge (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Fisheries and Marine Institute can see themselves playing a significant role following the deal announced this week for Bay du Nord and the new drydock in Bull Arm.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the School of Maritime Studies, Captain Kris Drodge, says they are \u201cvery uniquely positioned\u201d to collaborate on any offshore project, including Bay du Nord.<\/p>\n<p>They already have programs and specialized centres, and those can be scaled and tailored for what he says could be \u201cdecades of new offshore operations and now vessel maintenance activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Master Mariner Captain Kris Drodge (VOCM News) The Fisheries and Marine Institute can see themselves playing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-523362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}