[2001 ZTS]

Its a very tough business to be in either on the ships themselves or working ashore with them and I do both. I got a phone call at 2300 on Valentines Day because my oil tanker had a fire off the coast of Maine, two crew members/coworkers/friends with burns due to a flash fire.

In a sense we were all very lucky as the boys did everything right onboard and ashore, it could have been a huge disaster with 13 souls lost and 70,000 barrels of oil in the water right off the coast of a US State Park. We are required to have $US 5 Billion in insurance for such things.

USCG bulliten:

http://www.uscgnewengland.com/go/doc/778/192287/

My album from the clean up and repairs:

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=...7f&id=687620231

It's BIG, dont think Theodore Tug Boat:



Because of such things I took the offer to move into HR recently but not much changes, I still visit ships and take trips. Recently I sent one of the boys home to Newfie travel paid because he was sick; he went to the doctor, was told he had cancer, went to the garage and blew his head off with a shotgun.

I sure hope the Doctor was right. Problem is that if it was the type of cancer I am told it was, it is 90+% fully treatable. The mandatory company arranged and paid for life insurance is void because it was a suicide. My hands are tied as that is the policy of ALL carriers out there.

I am well matched to my job but it sure has it's ups and downs; perhaps why I am so well matched to it?