Worse things happen

After twenty years at sea, Bob Jackson is now master. These memoirs take him from enjoying the odd cold beer sailing peacefully across the Indian Ocean to being trapped in a war zone. Here he sees life at sea changing from the leisurely days of general cargoes to the hectic computerised containerships. He seems to have done it all - rescuing drug runners from the ice, dredging aggregates in the North Sea and finally skippering a 'steamer' on a tranquil lake. This volume is the second of Bob...