The man behind one of the most successful open-ocean rescues ever

Forty-nine souls lost at sea. Their lives marked for death.

Their fate in the hands of a handful of people.

It was May 2012. An island trader carrying 49 passengers and crew, including 10 women and six children, sunk in shark-infested waters off the coast of the Solomon Islands.

For three days,…

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