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CAPTAIN
Timothy Close
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Captain
Timothy M. Close is a 1982 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy
and is originally from Macungie, Pennsylvania.
After earning a Bachelor of Science in Marine
Engineering from the Academy, he was assigned to the USCGC STEADFAST, a 210’
medium endurance cutter where he served as Damage Control Assistant and
Assistant Engineering Officer.
Captain Close was next selected to attend
post-graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he
earned a Masters Degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and a
Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Upon graduation from MIT, he was assigned to the
Quality assurance Division within the Office of Acquisition at Coast Guard
Headquarters where he was involved in various acquisition projects including
the 47’ Motor Lifeboat, the Coast Guard’s new Juniper and Lighthouse Keeper
classes of buoy tenders, and the new icebreaker USCGC HEALY.
Captain Close was then assigned to Marine Safety
Office Morgan City, Louisiana from 1991 through 1995, where he served as a
marine inspector before being assigned as the Assistant Chief, then Chief of
the Inspection Department.
In 1995, he was assigned as Executive Officer of
Marine Safety Office Cleveland, Ohio.
During his tour, over 200,000 gallons of oil were
successfully pumped from a sunken barge under Lake Erie that had been lost
in a storm in the 1940s.
Captain Close was next assigned to Coast Guard
Headquarters as the Chief of the Human Element and Ship Design Division
where he spearheaded the Coast Guard’s casualty prevention efforts focused
on human and organizational factors, the application of risk concepts to
improve maritime safety, and risk-based methods to assist in maritime
homeland security activities.
He then was assigned as the Commanding Officer,
Marine Safety Office Savannah where he served as Captain of the Port and
Officer in Charge Marine Inspection from 2002 until 2004.
Next he was assigned as the Chief, Western Rivers
Division at the Eighth Coast Guard District in
Captain Close’s
military awards include five Meritorious Service Medals, two Coast Guard
Commendation Medals, the 9-11 Medal, and an Army Achievement Medal.
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