WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, YOU MAY HAVE ONLY YOURSELF TO FALL BACK ON
I seldom tell sea stories these days, but this one makes a worthwhile point. It opens on a dark night, long ago, in the Gulf of Mexico, some 120 nautical miles south of Cameron, Louisiana. The oil company I worked for at the time had done some procrastinating. As a result, a hurricane had gotten so close to one of its semisubmersibles that helicop ters could no longer land. Winds were too strong.
Bu hikaye Power and Motoryachts dergisinin April 2018 sayısından alınmıştır.
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Bu hikaye Power and Motoryachts dergisinin April 2018 sayısından alınmıştır.
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