by Martha Music | Dec 15, 2021 | Early Wave Makers, Featured Sea Stories |
Photo courtesy of Foss Maritime My husband and I were recently out for a celebratory dinner with some friends. We were talking about the books we enjoy reading. It seemed historical fiction and non-fiction were favorite genres around the table. I mentioned that I...
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...
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