Alan Raine was born in 1941 during World War II and went through infant, junior, and grammar school like the majority of children of his age. He left school and started to work ser...lihat lebih banyakAlan Raine was born in 1941 during World War II and went through infant, junior, and grammar school like the majority of children of his age. He left school and started to work seriously at the local iron and steel works and was there for twenty-one years. When the works closed, he moved into a company that was just getting involved with the offshore gas industry. He spent a number of years there, working with other engineers in the offshore oil and gas industry. When the facility that he was working at closed, he started to work for a small company that was involved in the inspection of welded components from subsea to out-in-space structures. Even after he retired from that occupation, he was asked to use his knowledge to act as a consultant and to train engineers to use the equipment that he had been involved with. This was supposed to be short-term but ended up being over ten years. During all of this time, quite a bit of traveling was involved. Several unusual and sometimes funny incidents occurred, and these are recounted here. When he retired again at seventy-four, and as the ukulele classes were not going so good, he decided to write some of these experiences down.lihat lebih sedikit