Father-Daughter Duo Make History At Mass. Maritime Academy

BOURNE (CBS) -- When 21-year-old Meaghan Brain walks to classes at Massachusetts Maritime Academy and she comes across her father, she doesn't get a salute from him -- even though she outranks him.

"I'd like him to. That would be kind of cool", she says, laughing.

Meaghan is entering her senior year, and her 47-year-old father will be a junior at Mass. Maritime.

"She got accepted a few years ago, and I started thinking, that's a good idea," says Dave Brain, who's a paramedic at Brewster Ambulance.

"In my 36 years here, they are the first father-daughter team," says Capt. Brad Lima, the Dean of Academic Affairs. "We have a strong legacy tradition here, but this is a first."

Both Dave and Meaghan are studying marine engineering. And someday, they might go out to sea together.

"That would be awesome, because this has been a great bonding experience," says Meaghan.

And Dave?

"I can think of nothing better than to go to sea with my daughter," he says.