by Julie Schaeffer | Jul 6, 2020 | Featured Sea Stories |
A zoology student found a career offshore. If you’ve ever seen the show Vikings, you know exactly what Wicklow County, Ireland, looks like, as it was filmed there. Vibrant green hills and valleys give way to crescent bays that welcome the Irish Sea. Its easterly...
by Julie Schaeffer | May 13, 2020 | Featured Sea Stories |
Radio Operator sounds reductive. Why not call her a “Communications Expert? or an “International Relations Coordinator?” With all the communications Maria Quiteria Rego is responsible for as a radio operator offshore, a more dignified title is...
by Women Offshore | Dec 18, 2019 | Featured Sea Stories |
Melissa McCartney’s passion for the food industry led her to share the culinary arts with others. In 2016, Melissa McCartney was happily working as an instructor and high school recruiter at the Le Cordon Bleu in Miami. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America,...
by Women Offshore | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Sea Stories |
On a drilling rig in the North Sea, Rosie Hutchins stood in the derrick. The derrick is a tower-like framework that supports the hoisting equipment that raises and lowers drill pipe. Rosie was strapped into a harness on a platform in the derrick called the monkey...
by Women Offshore | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured Sea Stories |
Using the latest scientific data and navigation techniques that most others ignored, Eleanor Creesy broke records on board the Flying Cloud during the Gold Rush. In the 1850’s, American women did not have the rights that they have today; no rights to property, wages...
by Ger Tysk | Sep 16, 2019 | Featured Sea Stories |
Traditional rigging for sailing vessels is not a job for the fainthearted. Besides having to commit hundreds of knots, splices and leather- and woodworking skills to mind and muscle memory, rigging involves fine detail work and intricate knowledge of traditional...
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