Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder

2023-08-12 10:26

Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on a tanker rudder. Two weeks later they were in Brazil.

Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder

Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on the rudder of a tanker. They had no idea they were bound for Brazil, and a two-week ocean voyage that would nearly kill them.

A little after midnight on 27 June, Roman Ebimene Friday gathered up the food he had been collecting for a few months and set...