Last night I heard from a very old friend who is still driving ships in the Malacca, South China Sea region. He told me about two new incidents relating to modern pirates, yet when I check official reports, again, nothing about then is shown. By my estimation less than 10% of incidents get reported, I guess it has always been so. The Malacca region is getting worse again, this is to be expected as certain governments in the area are, in return for some brown bag payments, very prone to turn a blind eye to what is going on. Even in my time the corruption was compounded by regional governments, some things never change; they just alter their surface decoration.
Today is also the anniversary of the sinking of ‘The Far Roamer’, what a night that was and my first true introduction to the working of the Ducks. Good heavens, that was 33 years ago, how the time does get away from you when you’re not paying attention.
Actually that was the brink of what was to become the main core of my life until things fell apart in 1997. Anna Minet (Red) was about to enter my life and that certainly put a new face on things. The Ducks had been ‘blooded’ and we now thought we were up to the challenge, how naïve we were.
As with my biography, in this blog names of people and ships etc have been changed to protect those involved who are still around.
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This is about the time I should have entered into the picture if there was a future for me in the Ducks. I was rearing to go along then and had been seasoned in as to some OJT in the trucking industry. It was not the nicest industry in the world either.
I never get tired of reading your stories Harry, they make me chuckle, sometimes cry, and sometimes jealous that I could not have been there to share in the comraderie.
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