Most of the public remembers it as “the BP spill” in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, but those of us who worked on the Deepwater Horizon spill have memories of our own.
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Arrivederci, Seattle! It’s been a long, wonderful 23 years.
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Still finding tears to wring out for my coworker's suicide, and riding seems to help with the grief.
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Lost a dear coworker who was like a big brother to me.
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No, I was not a delegate.
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Our team celebrated six years of dedication working on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with what else, a bash and beer.
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The Katrina search and rescue phase had ended and we transitioned to working on the environmental disasters left in its wake.
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Struggling to remember life outside the destruction.
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The Washington Post wrote a much-needed, uplifting editorial about how the Coast Guard was the silver lining of an otherwise dismal response to Katrina.
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A window into “the shit is on fire” show.
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The sobering reality of what it is like to try and rescue people from the floodwaters of Katrina sinks in.
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Forty eight hours ago I finished my last track race of the season. Right now I sit at a table in the small Alexandria, Louisiana, convention center that is home to the U.S. Coast Guard Region 8 command post.
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