The Operative Factor
Mar 20, 2018
2 minutes
BY CAPT. BILL PIKE
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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
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