The Event
Maersk Dubai is the name of a Taiwanese freighter. In the Spring of 1997, two Romanian stowaways were found on board and thrown into the sea by the Taiwanese officers. When Rodolfo Miguel, a Filipino crewman, discovered a third stowaway on board, he hid the Romanian from the officers. Upon the Maersk Dubai 's arrival in Halifax, Canada, Miguel and other Filipinos brought the stowaway to safety and alerted the authorities to the actions of the ship's officers.
The Maersk Dubai incident was dealt with by the rock band Savatage's album The Wake of Magellan. A partially fictionalized version of the incident was the story of the book The Stowaway, by Robert Hough.
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