Life Jackets Articles
Navy cadet fought waves to save others
"I DON'T know how I picked up the courage," Michelle Lakin says. "You just don't know what you're capable of until you get into these situations."
Australia urged to aid boat people
THE death of a Tamil man who had been aboard a boat moored at Merak in Indonesia has prompted renewed calls for Australia to help strike a deal to resettle the 246 people on board.
A defender of fish patrolling the high seas
OH, THE heroic travails of the Oceanic Viking. In the past five years, the 105-metre boat has come to the aid of whales, Patagonian toothfish, a sick Portuguese sailor â and now asylum seekers.
The man who gambles with human cargo
CAPTAIN Bram isn't worried. He knows people-smuggling is not an offence in Indonesia. "Don't worry, I'll be free in a few months and will be able to help you again," Bram told Sri Lankan asylum seekers after taking their life's savings and duping them on an ill-fated voyage in a..read more
Poor weather delays retrieval of smashed yacht
POLICE will decide today whether conditions at Flinders Islet off Port Kembla are safe enough to start recovering the wreckage of the maxi yacht, Shockwave.
