Team Adventure seeks Teacher crew for Columbus voyage.

by Keith Taylor on 16 Mar 2001 2001-Skipper Cam Lewis is looking for two school teachers to crew aboard the 110-foot catamaran Team Adventure on 'The Route of Discovery' transatlantic passage, retracing the course Christopher Columbus took on his voyage to the Americas.

The search for two qualified teachers to communicate daily from the big
catamaran with students on both sides of the Atlantic is being conducted by
Monster.com, the world's leading global online careers site and the major
sponsor of Team Adventure. To view the job listing, go to www.monster.co.uk
and use the search words 'schoolteachers ahoy.' The closing date for
applications is Monday, March 19.

WBUR Radio's web site in Boston is planning a pilot program with a school in
Chelsea, Massachusetts, while National Geographic TV and Boating Today will
each cover the voyage and for television specials. The British web site
Now.com will also cover the crossing.

Team Adventure is still competing in The Race of the Millennium, in third
place. She was 2,600 miles from the finish line in Marseille today. After
finishing next week, and following a brief refit, the mega-catamaran will
sail to Cadiz, Spain. From Cadiz she will set out on the 3,885-mile
transatlantic voyage to San Salvador Island on the southeastern extremes of
the Bahamas where Columbus first landed.

The modern tradition of the 'Route of Discovery' was established in 1984
with a sailing race from Spain to San Salvador. Columbus and his three
ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, had departed Spain in 1492 from
Porto. Like Columbus and the other sailors who followed him, Team Adventure
will sail via the Canary Islands.

The Finnish Swan 651 monohull sloop Fazer Finland won the first race over
the 'Route of Discovery' course in 1984. Twelve years ago the 75-foot
catamaran Jet Services V set a record of 12 days 12 hours for the east to
west passage. Last year, Club Med, a sister-ship of Team Adventure's and the
winner of The Race, logged a new record of 10 days 14 hours during her
qualifying voyage for The Race.

Skipper Cam Lewis is not looking for any sailing records on this voyage, but
he and his crew will be concentrating on Columbus' records. The big cat,
with its broad trampoline decks, and its extensive satellite communications
equipment, will be a platform for documenting and communicating via
streaming video, photos and text, the sights and sounds of a modern ocean
passage. Using extensive records from Columbus' voyage, the crew and the
guest teachers will look for similarities and changes over the intervening
500 years.

'Using all these modern communications tools we are able to make history,
geography, mathematics and physics exciting and interesting,' Lewis said.
'In today's world, using adventure is a great way to motivate, interest and
engage students, thereby teaching fundamental skills.'

One member of the crew will be a writer who, along with the teachers, will
chronicle the day's events, both then and now. All of this information will
be posted on the Team Adventure website and students will be asked to answer
questions, plot positions, and develop interactive chat-sessions with the
boat.

Team Adventure is a partner in a pair of innovative web sites.
www.nationalgeographic.com/teamrace, the web site of the National Geographic
Society, is the educational partner in the collaborative venture. The
National Public Radio affiliates WBUR in Boston, MA, at www.WBUR.org, and
WRNI in Providence, RI, at www.wrni.org, are the exclusive radio media
partners.

Monster.com, the leading global online careers site and the flagship brand
of TMP Worldwide (NASDAQ: 'TMPW'; ASX: 'TMP'), has signed a Sponsor Level
Partnership - becoming the first major sponsor of the team.

For more information on Team Adventure, go to http://www.TeamAdventure.org
or visit the race site at http://www.therace.org. Additionally, individuals
wishing to donate to the Team Adventure Education Foundation or corporations
looking for sponsorship opportunities should contact Lydia Langston at
Lydia@TeamAdventure.org.