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Meet the shipping engineer transitioning from oil and gas

Seafarers are having to adapt to new sources of energy.

By Samir Jeraj

When he finished school Allan Dickson wanted to continue studying, but the prospect of student debt put him on an unconventional path.

“My guidance teacher gave me a book called sponsorship for students, and it was basically a big list of companies that would sponsor somebody to go to college or university,” he recalls.

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