… “It was a winter morning. Around seven o’clock I was about to leave the warmth of the bed for a living when the phone rang. My interlocutor was the captain of the Dutch lifeboat RIBUT from the Persian Gulf. He had just gotten a distress signal from M/T WISE and headed to his aid. The ship was bombed by a plane and is burning...”
Excerpt from the story “Bombing in peacetime”. A true story (05.20.1998) of Captain Frixos Dimos, graduate of the School of Merchant Mariners of Hydra, we read in “FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS” by VOICE OF GREECE.
The show ”Fair Winds and Following Seas” with Antonis Karagiannakis is dedicated to Greek seafarers, featuring stories of their day-to-day lives, live testimonies, and connections with Greek ocean liners sailing across the world’s oceans.