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Maine Community College System, Maine Maritime Academy and Diamond Offshore Wind Announce Training Partnership

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023
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PRESQUE ISLE, Maine and CASTINE, Maine and BUCKSPORT, Maine, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, July 18th, leaders from the Maine Community College System (MCCS), Maine Maritime Academy (MMA), and Diamond Offshore Wind announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) committing to a partnership that will map out workforce needs of the offshore wind industry in Maine and support the development of offshore wind technicians and other skilled workers. Leaders from the institutions participated in roundtable discussion at MMA's Center for Professional Mariner Development to discuss a joint initiative to "marinize" Maine's workforce to service future offshore wind farms. This agreement marks the first collaboration of its kind in Maine.

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  • PRESQUE ISLE, Maine and CASTINE, Maine and BUCKSPORT, Maine, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, July 18th, leaders from the Maine Community College System (MCCS), Maine Maritime Academy (MMA), and Diamond Offshore Wind announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) committing to a partnership that will map out workforce needs of the offshore wind industry in Maine and support the development of offshore wind technicians and other skilled workers.
  • We are looking forward to this partnership with the Maine Community College system and Diamond Offshore Wind."
  • "Offshore wind will create jobs and a new industry for Maine," said Chris Wissemann, CEO of Diamond Offshore Wind.
  • "We are pleased to be partnering with Maine Maritime Academy and Northern Maine Community College to support training that will provide Mainers with skills that will be in demand for decades to come.

ABS Classes World’s Biggest Floating Wind Turbine

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Monday, November 4, 2019
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The largest floating wind turbine in the world, an 8.4-megawatt (MW) ABS-classed offshore wind turbine, is about to be installed.

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  • The largest floating wind turbine in the world, an 8.4-megawatt (MW) ABS-classed offshore wind turbine, is about to be installed.
  • WindFloat Atlantic represents a major milestone for the floating offshore wind industry as it is the worlds first semi-submersible floating wind farm.
  • ABS is the leading class society for floating offshore wind and continues to lead the development of design standards and concepts for floating offshore wind turbine foundations.
  • ABS certified the first commercial-sized semisubmersible floating offshore wind turbine, Windfloat 1, in 2011 and released the ABS Guide for Building and Classing Floating Offshore Wind Installations in 2013.