As of Monday 19th September, the Crew Unlimited offices and the ICT training center, both in Fort Lauderdale, will now bear the bluewater brand, creating a fusion of three market leaders offering an unbeatable worldwide service and a database of over 100,000 crew. This will further enhance bluewater’s ONE Account - a unique training and recruitment solution offering yacht owners and yacht captains an annual subscription to the same live database from which bluewater's recruitment team work. The yacht then receives every cent of their fee back as training credits to be used in our training centers worldwide, or even on board.

“Bluewater’s new worldwide reach means that crew can rely on the bluewater model of training and recruitment regardless of which time zone they are in. We are delighted to welcome Ami Ira, Jay Lasner and their fantastic teams to the bluewater family, and look forward to welcoming you to our new facilities in Fort Lauderdale.”
Peter Bennett – Managing Director, bluewater

Crew Unlimited, a leading US crew placement agency with a database of over 60,000 registered crew (similar to the size of bluewater’s) was one of the first in the world to open its doors in 1983. Ami Ira, the owner of Crew Unlimited, will drive the US recruitment, brokerage and charter business as President of bluewater USA retaining all of her current team.

 “I am excited to join the bluewater family, a team I’ve known and respected for more than 20 years.  The marriage of our two brands will surely be a game changer resulting in the world’s largest talent pool by far.”
Ami Ira - President bluewater USA

ICT will also rebrand the huge International Crew Training (ICT) facilities as bluewater. This will allow ONE Account customers, the money-saving program for which bluewater is known, to not only redeem their ONE Account training vouchers with a respected and established team of instructors in the state-of-the-art training center on West Sunrise Boulevard, they now will have the option to do all of their training in Fort Lauderdale as part of the bluewater family. Jay Lasner will continue to lead the center under the title of CEO.

“Everyone at International Crew Training is passionate about being the finest maritime training center of its kind and delivering the finest training in the world.  It is a natural step to provide a business now spanning both sides of the Atlantic, thereby combining our efforts towards these mutual goals.”
Jay Lasner, MD - CEO bluewater Crew Training

Bluewater is thrilled to be welcoming CU and ICT into our family.  One Company, One Complete Service... Now in Fort Lauderdale!

Editor's Notes:
Bluewater is an international yachting company offering a wide range of crew placement, crew training, charter, brokerage and management services, with offices in Antibes, Palma, Moscow, Hong Kong, Davos and now Fort Lauderdale.  

Bluewater Crew & Training Offices
Antibes
Crew & Training – 7 Boulevard d’Aguillon, 06600 Antibes, France +33 493 344 773
Fort Lauderdale
Crew - 1069 SE 17 St Causeway, Ft Lauderdale, Florida 33316, USA +1 (954) 462-4624
Training - 750 W Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311, USA +1 (954) 779-7764
Palma
Crew & Training - Calle San Juan 4, 07012 Palma de Mallorca, Spain +34 971 677 154