Interview with Vincent Pica [picanyc] -

Vincent Pica [picanyc]

PROFESSION

What is your profession? What is your title printed on your business card?

My profession and avocation is sea captain. I exercise this calling through working with the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary. My name is Vincent Pica and I am a District Captain in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary. I am responsible for USCGAuxiliary activities on Long Island, New York, working with my 4 division commanders.

We assist and work with USCG active-duty personnel in all respects - from cooks in galleys to search-and-rescue - except military or police actions. The USCG Auxiliary was created by an act of Congress in 1939 so this is our 70th year serving our Nation and our neighbors - and doing it on our own terms, doing activities that we enjoy doing - on land, sea and in the air.

What did you study and why did you choose to study that field?

Studying for such a calling is both self-taught (on the water for 40+ years), by observation of others and formal classroom (USCGAux and USCG training.) This has enabled me to reach the rating of a licensed Master Captain.

What is expected of you in your job, and how do you accomplish it?

Part of the answer to that is to use technology to get our message out. This means social networks are an important part of that. You can find me on

Twitter
http://twitter.com/uscgauxvin/favourites

WWW
http://www.atlanticmaritimeacademy.com

What links do you have on the Internet: website, blog, social networks?

I write a seamanship column for a number of newspapers "Out East" on Long Island as well as a variety of blogs and web sites. You can access the "archives" by clicking on the Publishers tab (below) or visit my web site for further seamanship articles as originally written.

http://www.atlanticmaritimeacademy.com/publishers.html (...)

http://www.atlanticmaritimeacademy.com/seamanship.html (...)

Vincent T. Pica, II
District Captain, SECLIS-South, D1SR
USCG licensed Master
Serve - Contribute - Grow

In which tasks are you good at, and in which could you better yourself?

the great thing about the sea is, if you are paying attention, you can learn something everyday and every time you go to sea. Maybe not big things every day or every time but something - and that makes it wonderful...

We have a saying that the sea doesn't test a person.

It reveals them...

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