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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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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