'Everybody hates it.' Welcome to the worst training course in the offshore-oil industry. It's required of everyone from CEOs to the housekeeping staff.
Large oil-and-gas companies require workers on offshore platforms to pass a grueling, daylong water-survival class; ‘Everybody hates it’/ Photographs by Rush Jagoe for The Wall Street JournalROBERT, La.—A dozen or so offshore oil workers showed up in jumpsuits, life vests and helmets for a mandatory water survival course.
“You’re not going to die,” 56-year-old offshore electronics technician Kent Cox reassured a nervous first-timer.
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