The Jungle Expedition Skipper Training School is a fictional organization from the defunct attraction Shrunken Ned's Junior Jungle Boats.
Description[]
The Jungle Expedition Skipper Training School is an organization which trained riverboat skippers.
Members[]
History[]
The Jungle Expedition Skipper Training School was founded in the year 1851. The company trained riverboat sailors in order to have them employed as skippers. Following the founding of the Jungle Navigation Company in 1911, the Skipper Training School would supply the company's skippers. In the 1930s, they used miniature remote-control boats to train minors how to work as skippers.
Appearances[]
Shrunken Ned's Junior Jungle Boats[]
The school was referenced in the backstory for this attraction.
Trivia[]
- The Amazon River Base has references to, "Junior Skippers" including some setting up the first Jingle Cruise in 1935, and some in 1936 at the Annual Schweitzer Falls Diving Competition.[1]
- During refurbishments of Disneyland's Jungle Cruise in 2021, cast-members did an interactive performance called, "Skipper School".