Interviewer: Preetam Prakash

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Bobby Regan had been referred to Preetam by Johnny McKinsey, another Sandy Hook resident with a long history of working in the oil industry. When Preetam had interviewed Johnny a few weeks earlier, Johnny had mentioned that Bobby Regan might be another person in the Sandy Hook area who might willing to participate in the study. Preetam contacted Bobby the following week and they had arranged to meet a few days later at Bobby’s home in Sandy Hook. Bobby had started out working in the oil industry in the 1960s. He had spent a considerable amount of time working onshore, before making the transition to working on offshore rigs. During the interview he spoke about some of the differences between offshore and onshore work. He also discussed the importance of both onshore and offshore work for residents of Sandy Hook as well as other nearby communities. Bobby had stopped working offshore in the 1990s. He had taken a few years off and had been heavily involved in the construction of a church in the nearby area. He had then gone back to work for an offshore contract company as a dispatcher before getting out of the industry for good in the late 1990s due to health problems.