by Martha Music | May 20, 2022 | Featured Sea Stories |
Please meet one of our amazing mentors in the MentorSHIP program, Joy Hall. She is the Marine Training Director for a U.S. tanker fleet. She develops and ensures the compliance of the marine training programs for 325 employees. Before transitioning ashore, she sailed...
by Martha Music | Dec 15, 2021 | Blog, 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 Laura McFalls | Nov 20, 2021 | Featured Sea Stories |
Kim is one of the few transwomen in the offshore sector globally. Her path has not always been an easy one. Remembering the beginning of her transition Kim recounted, “The first day I went into work socially transitioned was perhaps one of the hardest days of my...
by Laura McFalls | Nov 16, 2021 | Featured Sea Stories |
When I think about Kim Asher the first word that comes to mind is advocate. Before I explain why, I would like to take some time to introduce you to this amazing woman. This will be a two-part blog series. Kim has worked in the offshore industry for 12 years now....
by Laura McFalls | Sep 22, 2021 | Featured Sea Stories |
A career at sea can be challenging and isolating at times, but it can also lead to adventure and opportunity as one mariner, Laura McCormack has discovered. Laura was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attended Massachusetts Maritime Academy. After graduation she...
by Women Offshore | Mar 29, 2021 | Featured Sea Stories |
Based on research & phone interview by Sheila Sova It was a different world for women back in the 1940’s. While men went off to war, women entered the workforce in large numbers to support the war effort. Some went to work at the shipyards, becoming welders and...
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