Book Review: The story of offshore Arctic engineering

The story of offshore Arctic engineering. Dan Masterson. Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Unabridged edition (112015). (Hard cover), 195 pp. CDN$204.07. ISBN 978-1527518162. Dan Masterson enjoyed a 45-year career in which he was engaged in ice engineering aspects of a number of the major offshore petroleum exploration programs in the Canadian High Arctic Islands and the Canadian and Alaskan Beaufort Sea. This generously illustrated book recounts Dan’s own personal experiences in many of these projects. He writes well and his narration captures the spirit, enthusiasm, and optimism of the times. The book contains high level background information on the political and economic factors that set the scene or provide context for some of the projects he was involved in. This background information is factual and well researched, and clearly separated from his personal observations and opinions. The various problems and technical solutions described in the book are interspersed with some of the colourful experiences and characters he encountered.