In the movie “Man on Fire,” Denzel Washington’s character, Creasy, is helping little Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning, about 10 at the time) prepare for a swim meet. After swimming a personal best, she says something about having to be tough to win. Creasy, her bodyguard, a very tough guy indeed, tells her, "No such thing as tough. There’s trained and there's untrained. Now, which are you?”
In the marine business, a very tough business, there’s also trained and untrained. The untrained mar
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Ken Hocke was senior editor of WorkBoat from 1999 to 2025 and the magazine's associate editor from 1997 to 1999. Prior to that, he was the editor of the Daily Shipping Guide, a transportation daily in New Orleans. He has written for other publications, including The Times-Picayune. He graduated from Louisiana State University with an arts and sciences degree, with a concentration in English, in 1978.
