About
Susan Hazlett likes to say that three things make up her life. She is a scientist, a sailor, and a storyteller. Her passion is history and she remembers taking family trips as a child and insisting they stop at roadside sites to learn about the local area. She went on to train as a marine biologist, but research trips and vacations always included visits to museums and historical sites. As a sailor, she has always been interested in maritime history and the early explorers.
She spent 25 years in Fairbanks, Alaska, raising two children in a one-room log cabin with no electricity or running water. She has sailed across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, visited the Arctic and Antarctic, been around Cape Horn, and explored rain forests in South America and tropical islands in the South Pacific. She says the thing that has always fascinated her most is how everything in the world is interconnected.
A few years ago Sue moved from Alaska to Castine, Maine to teach at Maine Maritime Academy where she is also part of the crew of a 100-year old Arctic exploration schooner. She loves teaching and speaking on ships because she believes that the ocean, the land, and its inhabitants have stories to be told and that when we share stories, we connect with the world and with each other.