The Times former chairman and CEO was a reporter when he got the call on May 9, 1980 to cover the Sunshine Skyway Bridge for the then St. Petersburg Times.
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Bruce Atkins was 32 years old, an experienced mariner, and an apprentice harbor pilot in Tampa Bay. It was his last training mission, and he was shadowing…