![]() He kept meticulous sailing records, however. Peter Olander’s seafaring life was so colourful that some likened him to “a 17th-century swashbuckler”, his wife, Jeannie, told The Royal Gazette.Īn expert fisherman and two-time winner of the of the World Cup Billfish Tournament, Mr Olander was known on the island for his business, Albatross Charters & Fisheries.īut his globe-trotting career, which took him through conflicts in Vietnam and Somalia as well as the Persian Gulf, included taking fire off the Somalian capital of Mogadishu and getting trailed by unfriendly Soviets off Norway during the Cold War.Ĭaptaining fuel tankers in the Gulf during both Gulf Wars came at great personal risk – and Mr Olander’s security clearance with the United States government was so high he had shore access at the tightly restricted UK territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, where the Americans kept a fleet stationed.Ī world map on the wall of his home in St David’s, where Mr Olander marked off his voyages, eventually became so complicated that he no longer recorded them on it. Peter Olander off shore at the East End (Photograph by Jeannie Olander)Ī master mariner who steered ships through war zones and had a reputation as “the fieriest captain in the Persian Gulf” was a natural teacher who shared his skills with many of the island’s charter boat captains.
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