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Podcast: The Unconventional Path: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Stories and Ideas.
Episode: EP-183 Life-Saving Innovation in the Bahamas: The Story of Tropic Air Rescue with Tony Marinello
Description: In this episode of The Unconventional Path, hosts Bela Musits and Mike Wasserman sit down with Tony Marinello, a retired New York State Trooper who turned a "retirement vacation" into a high-stakes, life-saving aviation venture. When Tony bought a small cargo airline to the Bahamas, he never expected to found the region's first-ever dedicated helicopter air ambulance service.+4While living in the United States often guarantees rapid emergency response, Tony realized that the 700 islands of the Bahamas tell a different story. After a pilot called him about a passenger potentially suffering a stroke on a...