# Impassioned Call for saving the Merchant Marine **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [September 15, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/impassioned-call-for-saving-the-merchant-marine/56733 "2020-09-15T21:21:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![john](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/john/32/5_2.png) [@john](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/john)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/impassioned-call-for-saving-the-merchant-marine/56733/3 "2020-09-15T21:48:55Z")
and here’s the thread that got me started this morning: > [@Censorship](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/censorship/56701/37): > > This is true but it goes deeper than the leadership of organizations. It’s cultural. As you can read in my book, I blew the whistle at Transocean a year before the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the company (with uscg and abs’ tacit approval) worked diligently to shut me up which isn’t surprising. What did surprise me was the number of good friends and shipmates that turned on me. Many of these were the same guys who were pushing me to blow the whistle in the first place. As sailors we bitch … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/impassioned-call-for-saving-the-merchant-marine/56733)._