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On the Cover: Kristin Poling stems the tide off the wreckage of the City's Pier 7, Tompkinsville, nearby Miller's Launch. Don Sutherland examines the emergence of Poling & Cutler, starting on page 18. (Photo: Don Sutherland)
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FEATURES
16 Shipwreck Story: A "Hubris Machine"
There are many who go down to the shore and smell the sea. Then there are seafarers who spend days, maybe weeks or months at sea, and when they finally approach the coast smell the same thing, only for them that smell is the land. So it is with The Tragic History of the Sea - Shipwrecks from the Bible to Titanic. -- by Capt. Edward Lundquist, Alion Science & Technology
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18 Poling & Cutler: In for the Long Haul
Born from the ashes of a long-tenure, but ultimately failed family maritime company, Ed Poling Jr. and Gary Cutler are riding high in the New York petroleum transport business. -- by Don Sutherland
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