Port Fourchon Louisiana is the central hub of logistics for the domestic offshore oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico. There are routinely around 250 vessels working the port and no VTS (vessel traffic service- so no pilots or check in points or centralized control- and thank god for that!) All vessels communicate on VHF 13, as do most of the docks.
The local Creole-French accent and sentence structure, combined with industry slang and idioms, made my life interesting for a while! 8 years later I occasionally still have to take a moment to process what I hear to Yankee. 
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way. - John Paul Jones
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