WilliamM

Thanks @mike carey. I should have done some research rather than just my memory of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in late 1998.

I have sailed in Northwest edge of the northern island of New Zealand. It's typhoon season in Australia and New Zealand. The last time I was in Australia (1998), several lives and boats were lost near Hobart, Tasmania.

He was a freelance journalist selling his stories from some of the most dangerous places in the world. I agree there is little indication now about his earlier days. My brother is a park ranger at Yellowstone and is focused on wolves. Cooper insisted on a closer look at the wolves, and was properly denied. However, later my brother was near the wolves and tried to contact Cooper, who was taking a pleasant afternoon nap at his hotel. Otherwise, my brother likes everyone, especially Harrison Ford and Jane Fonda.

And doing in one very long sentence.

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Perhaps this was never going to work.......

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