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...same period last year), mostly under British registry out of Hong Kong. Moreover, the British contend that this trade, while economically negligible, may actually benefit the U.S. "After all," said an English official in Saigon last week, "there are certain intelligence advantages in having a British skipper going into Hanoi now and then...
Like most fishermen, the Japanese crewmen aboard the commercial boat Yoku Maru could not resist a bit of a brag. When the 100-ft. vessel put into Jamaica's Montego Bay last fall, the skipper invited some local sport fishermen aboard. Modestly the Japanese apologized that a mother ship had carted away most of their catch. Then they threw open their lockers. There, stacked like cordwood, were the carcasses of thousands upon thousands of game fish: yellowfin tuna, wahoo, sailfish and blue marlin...
...Missing Skipper. As for passengers' charges that Captain Byron Voutsinas, the Castle's 33-year-old Greek skipper, disappeared after the order to abandon ship, the skipper explained that the flames had cut him off from the stern of the ship, where most passengers were huddled. So, said Voutsinas, he climbed into a lifeboat intending to reboard her astern, but decided instead to carry injured passengers in the boat to the rescue ship Finnpulp. Another reason for accompanying them, his lawyer maintained, was to ask the Finnpulp to radio an S O S to other ships-which...
...maritime unions, which have been trying for years to get Congress to apply tight laws to foreign cruise ships that cater to Americans, claimed that if the Yarmouth Castle had flown the U.S. flag, she would never have left dock in Miami. A former skipper of the ship, Andrea Amatruda, 43, was even more blunt. Anyone booking passage on the Yarmouth Castle, he declared, was taking a "calculated risk." Unconcerned, passengers in Miami last week continued to troop aboard other equally ancient cruise ships for Nassau...
...Dean in 1959. That was just a baby. Dean himself hooked into a bigger one that towed his 30-ft. launch 12 miles, finally broke loose after an epic 5½-hr. battle. Last year, off New York's Montauk Point, Captain Frank Mundus, a charter-boat skipper and shark specialist, confronted a huge white shark that swam up to inspect the boat and rose so far out of the water that Mundus swears he could have reached right out and touched the gaping mouth. Mundus hit it with three harpoons in the next five hours before finally bringing...