Captain Dennis Springer II joins me on the show to share his story through life thus far. We hear about his familial history in the industry, a troubled childhood that found him emancipated and out of school by the age of 13, a 9-year prison term in young adulthood, and his journey into and through the industry thereafter with ample mention of a handful of previous podcast guests.
He touches on the entrepreneurial efforts of Kenny Brown's "Maritime Throwdown," Gerald East's "Riverbank Professionals," mine with this show, and his own with a developing effort for the all new "Captain's Crew Service." All of these projects are by mariners for mariners (if I may consider myself one rather than the "office puke" moniker by which I've been so often referred by a certain fleet pilot out there) and are striving to affect positive change in our industry today.
