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Boat captain’s wife says BP reduced her late husband to a wreck

Tracy Kruse of Foley, Alabama said the loss of a 25 year business as a charter boat captain was killing her husband as weeks passed by following the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20.

Just past the crack of dawn on June 23, Allen kissed her goodbye for the final time. An hour later, he took his own life with a gunshot to the head in the wheelhouse of his 46-foot charter boat, The Rookie.

Allen Kruse was working for BP under its “Vessels of Opportunity” program  to deploy boom and spot and skim oil. But that kind of work left him an emotional wreck.

“All of a sudden he had people barking orders at him who didn’t know how to tie up a boat to a pier,” Tracy told the Pensacola News Journal. “I think he thought, ‘I’ve got to get out of this. I can’t take it.’ “

Tracy said that the paperwork process required by BP to get an assignment and get paid was extremely frustrating. One particular invoice was 52 pages and Allen was driven to extreme worry that the paperwork would not get processed.

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Source: Pensacola News Journal

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