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It is a.m. in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in Flemish Pass Basin of Newfoundland’s Grand Banks. The first sunlight that North America will see that day comes up over the horizon and skims the water, turning the ocean shades of tangerine and peach.

On this semi-submersible drilling rig, operations are getting ready to run riser pipe and begin another drilling campaign.

I pass by a third-party unit on deck to see them lowering down the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for a morning swim, to assist in monitoring the joints as they are rigged up on the drill floor and lowered down, section by section.

I stop in to talk to the crew and admire their skills as they sit in their futuristic-looking video-game chairs and, very precisely, pilot down the ROV into position via various screens and video feeds.

A female engineer enters, stage left, and gives me pause for reflection – who were her industry female p