by Women Offshore | Feb 4, 2019 | Early Wave Makers, Featured Sea Stories |
In her nearly 40 years in the oil and gas industry, subsea expert Vicki Corso shares how she navigated her career, achieving quite a few firsts as a woman in engineering. It is March 2004 on board the Marco Polo, a tension leg platform, and construction is underway....
by Andrew Zimmerman | Jul 10, 2018 | Early Wave Makers, Featured Sea Stories |
By 1942, during what would later be referred to as the “Second Happy Time”, German U-boats sank more tonnage than the United States could produce. Lurking off the Eastern seaboard, U-boats were a real threat to our ability to ship finished goods and raw material to...
by Andrew Zimmerman | Apr 4, 2018 | Early Wave Makers, Featured Sea Stories |
In my first article for Women Offshore, I featured a fellow Kings Point graduate in Captain Mary Parker Converse. After going back and forth on who to write the next article about, I kept coming back to my time spent at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and the woman...
by Andrew Zimmerman | Jan 11, 2018 | Early Wave Makers, Featured Sea Stories |
If you’ve read my first three posts, you know by now that I tend to seek out the obscure stories. Not wanting to disappoint the readers, I have chosen to go back to the World War II well of inspiration for this month’s featured mariner. While the story of the Japanese...
by Andrew Zimmerman | Oct 24, 2017 | Early Wave Makers, Featured Sea Stories |
On July 18, 2017, after battling returning champions Sarah Burn and Patricia Gerli on the open seas for the better part of a week, Maddie Hawkins and Kimmie Leonard stood victorious on the podium at the U.S. Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championship. The...
by Tormod Engvig | Sep 28, 2017 | Early Wave Makers, Featured Sea Stories |
Norway, a NATO-member nation bordering Russia, has had a very important geostrategic role, since the onset of the Cold War, with the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. In virtually every conventional World War III–scenario of the 1950s through the 1990s, it was assumed...
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