He sailed to Japan aboard a freighter, went next to Bali, and then to Australia, where he spent nine months working on a ranch.
The Coast Guard today suspended its search for the 163-foot cargo ship, the Anita, after finding two empty life rafts and some debris about 45 miles southeast of Miami, where the freighter went down on Saturday, said a Coast Guard spokesman, Petty Officer Robert Suddarth.
A shipping channel over the top of North America would cut 5,000 miles off the Panama Canal route now used by freighters going from Rotterdam to Yokohama.
If the climate continues to grow warmer, the Northwest Passage could become a regular shortcut for freighters going from Europe to Asia.
I was watching the big freighters go by out on the middle of Lake Huron, and I just got to thinking about the lives of the people that work on those boats.
By Calvin Kentfield The New Yorker, May 2 , 1959P. 42 A freighter was going through the chaotic seas that fringe the Bay of Biscay & Spanish Finisterre.
Photo: Rough seas and a remote location have hampered efforts to reach oil spilled from the halves of a freighter that went aground last week.
Negotiations for the Ukrainian freighter are still going on, and it is likely that because of all the publicity, the price for the ship could top $5 million.
Some of it sounded remarkably modern: "counterfeit cranks", who pretended to have epileptic fits in the street in order to exploit the kindness of strangers, and "freighters", who went around with false licences pretending to be collecting for charity.
It records the coming and going of freighters that are nowhere in sight.
