Featured Sea Stories Archives

Trailblazer Feature: Spyridoula Zova

by madeline | Feb 2, 2026 | Blog, Featured Sea Stories, Navigate Your Career | 0 comments

From First Responder to Offshore Paramedic, Following the Call Beyond Fear Spyridoula Zova’s career didn’t begin with a long-term plan or a childhood dream of emergency medicine. It began on the side of a road. As a first-year Business Administration student in...

From Idea to Impact: Celebrating 250 Episodes of the Women Offshore Podcast

by madeline | Jan 27, 2026 | Featured Sea Stories, Podcast | 0 comments

By Liz Schmidt & Christine MacMillan | Women Offshore Blog | Podcast Episode 250 Episode 250 of the Women Offshore Podcast marks a major milestone, not just in episode count, but in the evolution of Women Offshore itself. In this special episode, Executive...

Racing Around the World & Changing It: Meg Reilly on Leadership and Impact

by madeline | Jan 13, 2026 | Featured Sea Stories, Podcast | 0 comments

By Liz Schmidt | Women Offshore Blog | Podcast Episode 249 In Episode 249 of the Women Offshore Podcast, Women Offshore Executive Director Liz Schmidt sits down live at METSTRADE in Amsterdam with Meg Reilly, circumnavigator, sustainability leader, and global...

From Deck Cadet Inspiration to ROV Pilot: The Evolving Journey of Nicole Marcer

by madeline | Dec 26, 2025 | Blog, Featured Sea Stories, Navigate Your Career | 2 comments

Nicole Marcer’s path into offshore operations began with a single conversation in 2012. She met a woman working as a deck cadet, and for the first time, she saw someone who looked like her in a world she had never imagined herself entering. That moment planted a seed...

Surviving the Holidays at Sea: Finding Joy Far From Shore

by madeline | Dec 18, 2025 | Blog, Featured Sea Stories, Offshore Lifestyle | 0 comments

For many mariners, the holiday season is not spent around a family table, beside a decorated tree, or bundled up against winter traditions. Instead, it unfolds across steel decks, long shifts, ocean horizons, and time zones that blur together. Yet even far from shore,...

Ask an Ambassador

by madeline | Dec 16, 2025 | Featured Sea Stories, Navigate Your Career, Offshore Lifestyle, Podcast | 0 comments

By Christine MacMillan | Women Offshore Blog | Podcast Episode 247 In Episode 247 of the Women Offshore Podcast, we’re sharing the audio from a previously recorded Ask an Ambassador event hosted by Women Offshore Executive Director Liz Schmidt. This conversation...