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Outside Magazine May 2002
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Incident in a Nowhere Place


By Peter Nichols

The Usual Suspects: Four of the men in this December 7 Macapá Police Lineup were charged in the Blake case: José Irandir Cardoso, far left; Reney Macedo, second from left; Ricardo Tavares, second from right; and Isael da Costa, far right.



























IT WAS JUST ANOTHER QUIET BRAZILIAN EVENING, IN JUST ANOTHER PORT. THE BOAT WAS JUST ONE MORE SLEEK YACHT, bristling with electronics and expensive gear. The pirates were just another band of small-time water rats. And after the shoot-out, there was just one man dead on board the Seamaster. But when the news broke that sailor and environmentalist Peter Blake—New Zealand's national hero, and the greatest ocean racer of his generation—had gone down fighting, with a rifle in his hands, it became more than just another nightmare at sea.


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Longtime sailor Peter Nichols is the author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen.