But, as Mr Storm sees it, selling car insurance, personal pensions or protection for a North Sea oil rig are entirely different things.
He would never say what he was thinking, but it was clear that he resented the time she spent at the hospital, and Eva had started looking forward to the days or weeks when her husband was away, inspecting a rig in the North Sea or designing some mysterious installation in Egypt or Nigeria.
Non-essential staff were evacuated from the North Sea Producer, which is the closest rig to the incident, as a precaution, but it is not thought to be in any immediate danger of being struck by the drifting vessel.
Green activists fear an accident involving an oil rig or pipeline could ruin the sea.
The rig had been working in the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska's North Slope.
Sea Launch experienced a spectacular rocket failure on the rig in 2007, and was forced to restructure its finances as orders slowed and debts mounted.
An explosion on an offshore rig killed 11 workers and ruptured a deep-sea well head, which took 84 days to seal.
The North Sea was the scene of the world's worst offshore rig disaster, the Piper Alpha explosion, which killed 167 people in 1988.
Sea Launch, the rocket company that operates from a converted oil rig in the Pacific, has returned to flight.
This effort, pertaining to jackup rig needs, remains most evident in Mexico, the North Sea, the Middle East and increasingly in Asia.
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For the fourth quarter, Baker Hughes expects international operations to be impacted by a lower rig count in Brazil and Columbia and activity delays in the North Sea.
Though a program displays panels showing all the critical processes of a real rig (fire and gas detectors, valve status, oil flow from the sea bed and so on), and then responds to the actions of the trainee by altering these displays appropriately, a human operator can intervene at any time if things seem to be going too smoothly.
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