Remember Wrong-Way Corrigan? Moroccan Stowaway Outstrips Him
A 21-year-old Moroccan stowaway who sneaked onto the wrong ship in Casablanca ended up in an Australian jail last week, thousands of miles from his destination, immigration officials said Friday.
Customs officer Margot Tobin said the man, hoping to visit his brother in France, boarded a Romanian-owned ship in Morocco two months ago believing it was bound for the French port of Marseille, 1,400 miles away.
Instead it sailed 12,400 miles in the other direction to Australia, via Egypt, China and Hong Kong.
The man, whose name was not released, was arrested in a pub at Point Samson in Australia’s isolated northwest. The crew discovered the stowaway about two days into their voyage, and he jumped ship after it berthed in Australia.
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