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Born and brought up on the outskirts of Glasgow, Gordon joined the Royal Navy at age 17. After serving at sea, Gordon then joined the Fire Service where he has served almost three decades as a Firefighter and Fire Trainer. In 2000 he was seconded to the Warsash Maritime School as part of the Ship…

Richard is one of our instructor’s for the Marshall Islands STCW courses, he has a vast amount of experience in the Security sector as a qualified Ship Security Officer.

Linda has dedicated almost two decades to maritime training at the highest level. From establishing a training centre in Mallorca, that became renowned for its high standards of student care, professionalism of the training team and the success throughout independent exams, Linda joins the Nautical Academy Europe trainers to focus on the delivery of STCW…

Simon specialises in teaching the Yachtmaster Ocean syllabus. Having learnt Astro well before the days of GPS (early 1980’s), Simon has skippered sailing boats across all but the Southern Ocean so is well placed to bring real experience and practical knowledge to the Academy classroom. Not only for his unrivalled ocean teaching experience, Simon is…