Ocean Springs, MS
| Interviewee | Collection Sort descending | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Van Dong | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Le Van Dong is a Vietnamese-American shrimper living in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Mr. Le Van Dong was born January 9, 1958, one of three children, in My Tho, South Vietnam. In 1968, Mr. Dong moved to the port city of Vung Tau, South Vietnam. Mr. Dong’s father was a guard in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnamese Army), and took responsibility for raising his young children upon the early death of Mr. Dong’s mother. Mr. Dong began catching and selling fish at the age of fourteen to help support his family. Mr. |
Linda VanZandt, Angel Truong Phan | Ocean Springs, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
| Mike Le | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mike Le is a Vietnamese-American shrimper living in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Mr. Mike Le was born in 1953 near the town of Rach Gia in the Kien Giang Province of South Vietnam, where his family had a coconut and rice farm. In addition to farming, his father taught martial arts. Mr. Le escaped from Vietnam by boat with his uncle, cousins, and others, totally fifty-two people, in 1978. After spending five months in Pulau Tengah, Malaysia, he landed in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1979. Soon after, Mr. |
Linda VanZandt, Angel Truong Phan | Ocean Springs, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
| William Thiroux | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. William “Billy” Thiroux is a commercial fisherman on the Gulf Coast. Thiroux was born on July 4, 1937, in Biloxi, Mississippi, to Mr. Louis Thiroux and Mrs. Katherine Pauli Thiroux. His father was a commercial fisherman. His mother worked in the seafood plants as a shrimp picker and a crab picker. His mother’s family were commercial fishermen. Mr. Thiroux finished the eleventh grade, and thereupon joined the US Navy. |
Barbara Hester, Louis Kyriakoudes | Ocean Springs, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
| Dac Truong | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Dac Truong is a Vietnamese-American shrimper living in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Truong was born on May 8, 1954, in Rach Gia, South Vietnam. His father was a fisherman, head captain, and carpenter who built his own boat. Mr. Truong was his co-captain. In 1982 Mr. Truong escaped Vietnam with his family, navigating to Malaysia as captain on a friend’s boat. They were later transferred to a camp in the Philippines where he learned some English. In 1984 Mr. Truong and his family finally made it to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where they lived for three years. |
Linda VanZandt, Angel Truong Phan | Ocean Springs, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
| Tom McIlwain | Turtle Excluder Device Oral Histories |
Biographical Sketch |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey | Ocean Springs, MS | Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum, University of Southern Mississippi | |
| Wilber Seidel | Turtle Excluder Device Oral Histories |
Interview with Wilber Seidel, born August 15, 1939 in Luling, Texas. At the time of the interview, Seidel was retired as Division Director of the NMFS laboratory in Pascagoula, Mississippi where he was in charge of gear research. |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey | Ocean Springs, MS | Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum, University of Southern Mississippi |