"There can't be many of that foreign crew in the cavern," Speed argued.

Since then, foreign crews have dominated the event with 7 of the last 8 winners being overseas crews.

Sailing under a foreign flag, they can also hire foreign crews and enter nations like Cuba.

On the agenda: figuring out how to help foreign crews circumvent that cultural imprint.

The Turkish teams do not have search dogs or the sort of equipment that the foreign crews brought with them.

He gave a signal to the foreign crew to light the flare atop the floating platform, and gas from the test well burned overhead.

About 2,000 vessels were engaged in cabotage, or local trade between Nigerian ports, with mostly foreign crews.

He told them he was working on a ship from this area but the company says they have no foreign crews.

One boat was retained by the Soviets to train foreign crews.