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 €” 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 creaking, 30-metre wooden cargo boat to Australia's Christmas Island.

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.