AustLit

The tiny South Australian coastal town of Ripple Bay is changed when Albatross Two, a giant offshore oil rig arrives. As her brother is employed on the rig, Tina Banks tries to understand the need for oil exploration, until an oil spillage threatens to destroy all the coastal wildlife. (Source: Trove)

'Everyone in Port Lincoln thinks Snook Pascoe is a loser. People joke about his clumsiness; his teacher ridicules him and even his father, skipper of the tuna boat Blue Fin, is convinced that Snook will never amount to anything. After all, tuna fishing is a hard life for ‘real men’.

'When Snook is allowed, for once, to sail on Blue Fin he faces a terrifying disaster. A waterspout engulfs the ship, the deck is swept clean, the radio and rudder are wrecked, the engine is disabled, the crew is lost overboard and Snook’s father lies unconscious down below. Snook is on his own, far out to sea…' (Publication summary)