Oil Rig Work Big Draw for Maine Maritime Grads ; the Castine Academy Is the Largest Feeder Among U.S. Maritime Schools to Drilling Rigs, Where Some Graduates Can Make More Than $100,000 a Year. Series: A Maine Sunday Telegram Investigation: Danger at Sea

Portland Press Herald › May 30, 2004

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Two Mainers who keep the offshore oil rig Ocean Confidence drilling in the Gulf of Mexico are graduates. So is the chief mate of Pride Portland, as well as the manager of a drilling rig off the coast of India.

They all attended Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, which has become a key supplier of the engineers, captains and mates for the offshore oil industry. Hundreds of its graduates do the lucrative, and at times dangerous, job of drilling wells and extracting oil and gas from the ocean floor.

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Oil Rig Work Big Draw for Maine Maritime Grads ; the Castine Academy Is the Largest Feeder Among U.S. Maritime Schools to Drilling Rigs, Where Some Graduates Can Make More Than $100,000 a Year. Series: A Maine Sunday Telegram Investigation: Danger at Sea

"I certainly see a lot of familiar faces in the oil field," said Leon Hubbard, 30, of Bar Harbor, a 1995 graduate of Maine Maritime and an engineer on a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Alumni are scattered around the world, wor...

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