I spent four years in the US Coast Guard. My first year was spent working in Westport, WA.  The next two years took me to Coos Bay, OR as a Quartermaster on the WMEC Modoc. My final year brought me to Seattle to  operate 41' utility boats.

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My love for marine towing was developed in Coos Bay while watching tugs pull  deep sea vessels. Once out of the Coast Guard I spent the next 18 years as a tugboat captain. I operated everything from the smallest tugs to some of the largest ... up to 10,000 horsepower!   I traveled from San Diego to Valdez Alaska but mostly spent my time docking ships and barges in Puget Sound and towing sand and gravel (100's of thousands of tons of the stuff) to Lonestar, Pioneer, Glacier, Associated and Kenmore premix.

The last 8 years I have spent as a shop supervisor for a Subsea cable laying outfit called Pirelli Jacobson, Inc., in Ballard. We designed and built most of our equipment, installed it on our Dynamic Positioning Barge and head out to sea to lay everything from one single armor fiber optic cable to huge power cable ... not one but two, 8" massive power cables and an additional fiber optic cable buried beneath the sea floor!  Our company worked all over the world.

My job involved welding, machining, crane operation, repair, hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical, shipping receiving, and running a crew of up to 20 and all sorts of variety. I enjoyed the task.

9/11 hit our company very hard. We were planning to build the biggest subsea trencher ever and lay three cables across the Hudson River. The starting point was the Twin Towers or WTC!  My future changed that horrible day.

Through tragedy, a dream becomes real!
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