Q&A with a master mariner after Captain Phillips Nov 11

After the Monday, November 11th, showing of Captain Phillips, Captain Kelley Sweeney will be on hand to enrich your experience. Like Captain Phillips, Sweeney holds the highest captain’s license a merchant mariner can achieve. He has worked on oil tankers, container ships, oceanographic ships, high-speed passenger vessels, large oil spill response vessels, fish processing ships, ocean-going tugboats, a dredge, a car carrier, and a crew boat. He too has dealt with armed intruders on a ship, and has even worked with the chief officer under Captain Phillips, Shane Murphy.

In addition to his career as a mariner, Captain Sweeney is also a columnist for the magazine Professional Mariner, and is the author of the book From The Bridge – a collection of personal stories of life in the modern merchant marine (on sale that night in our lobby at a special Clyde price). With his wife Frances, he also operates Maritime Headhunters, a maritime job placement and maritime career counseling company, from Greenbank.

We know Kelly, so you can expect a lively and interesting Q&A after the film on Monday.