by Women Offshore | Jan 21, 2019 | Featured Sea Stories |
Each year, mates and engineers graduate from maritime academies, and with new licenses in hand, they join vessels to transit the world. Today, Karin Björk shares what it was like navigating a vessel for the first time as a new officer. Six years ago, Karin Björk from...
by Women Offshore | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured Sea Stories |
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale In 2014, Ger Tysk of Houston. Texas, was recently out of the US Air Force and ready to take on a new career. An avid...
by Women Offshore | Dec 18, 2018 | Featured Sea Stories |
From offshore as a completion engineer on an oil well to onshore as a consultant in energy business development, Aisha Anastasia thrives in the oil and gas industry. On board an offshore drilling rig, a well is drilled with the cement and casing in place. Next, a...
by Women Offshore | Nov 28, 2018 | Featured Sea Stories |
From an offshore platform in the North Atlantic, Dorthe Holmkvist, a native of Nørresundby, Denmark, shares an important lesson learned. Twenty-four years ago in Nørresundby, Denmark, a local paper advertised opportunities for engineers to work offshore. Dorthe...
by Women Offshore | Nov 6, 2018 | Featured Sea Stories |
From hunting for buried treasure to searching around subsea structures, LaRae Davies has an adventurous career. Since the 1850’s, treasure hunters from around the world have sought out the 140-acre, tree covered Oak Island on the south shore of Nova Scotia. The...
by Women Offshore | Oct 23, 2018 | Featured Sea Stories |
From Bossier City, Louisiana, Kristen Levin is the ‘Sherlock Holmes of Hydrocarbons,’ inspecting vessels to provide solutions in eliminating contaminants. On Kristen Levin’s desk in Shreveport, Louisiana, sits a picture of a woman in dirty coveralls...
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