Patrick Keenan

CAPT Keenan, a Princeton, NJ native, is an Engineering Duty Officer with marine salvage, drydocking, and ship repair experience. He has served in engineering and deck/salvage capacities aboard ATF and ARS class salvage ships and as the Seventh Fleet Salvage Officer. Shore assignments have included hyperbaric maintenance officer at a diving research facility, drydocking and diving officer in a naval shipyard, aircraft carrier repair officer at a supervisor of shipbuilding, Officer in Charge of U.S. Navy Ship Repair Unit Bahrain, Commanding Officer of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit and Director of the Naval Construction and Engineering Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. CAPT Keenan is currently serving as the U.S. Navy Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving. He is qualified in air, mixed gas, and saturation diving systems and as a docking officer for both floating and graving drydocks. A registered professional engineer and marine surveyor, CAPT Keenan received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Materials Engineering and a Naval Engineer Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research relating to waterborne ship repair was published in the Naval Engineers Journal. He holds a U.S. patent for his invention Method and Apparatus for Thermal Insulation of Wet Shielded Metal Arc Welds and he was the 2000 American Society of Naval Engineers Claude A. Jones Award winner for excellence in the field of Naval Engineering.