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Dive Diva's Blog – April 2010 Archive (2)
He Taught the World to Extract the Fuel, Then Watched Everyone Else Get Rich
By Megan Barnett Apr 23, 2010
He taught the world how to extract the fuel, then watched everyone else get rich.
When you think about how many trillions of dollars have been made on oil, how many lives have been lost over access to the fossil fuel, and how much the commodity has contributed to the advancement of developed nations during the past century, it’s…
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Mike Brushneen, one of the British divers who died in the North Sea
By Iain Haddow
BBC News
The North Sea oil rush of the 1970s offered big rewards for high-risk work and claimed several lives. Now families of British workers who died in Norwegian waters want to understand what happened to their loved ones.
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In the early 1970s, the North Sea was a watery Wild…
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