Family, academy express relief after captain’s rescue

By doris | Published: April 13, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com

But for those four days, they were on the minds of people around the globe, from the captain’s hometown in Vermont, to the White House, to port cities and anywhere that families send their loved ones off to sea.

“I actually was more concerned for his family,” said Adm. Rick Gurnon, head of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, where Capt. Richard Phillips had trained.

“I was pretty sure he would be OK,” Gurnon said of Phillips, adding, “as a captain at sea, in a lifeboat, he was in an environment he was comfortable with even if he was sharing it with four armed Somali pirates.

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