Safety Drill at Dawn Nobody Jokes About
Alarm at 0500. Muster. Man overboard drill. Nobody jokes. Jokes die young offshore. The young guy on crew learned fast. Respect is not rank out here. It is s...
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Three Weeks on the Rig and the Shore Feels Loud
Rotation end. Helicopter in. My apartment smelled like dust. The neighbor's television through the wall felt aggressive. Offshore quiet gets into your bones....
The Sea Does Not Care About Your Five-Year Plan
A young guy on the crew keeps talking about his MBA and making shore management by thirty. I do not tell him he is right or wrong. I watch the weather window...
Two Weeks Offshore and the Language You Forget
I have been back on land for three days. Someone asked if I wanted to grab coffee, and for a moment it felt like they had offered me an abstraction I had onl...
The Colour the North Sea Keeps
An offshore oil worker reflects on eleven Octobers in the North Sea — on distance, small kindnesses, and a life that defies easy judgment.