On June 20, 1971 The Sunday Gleaner lead story headlined 'Jason, of Jamaica, back from the sea' recounted the ordeal of 14-year-old Jason Whyte who had spent 17 days adrift at sea, surviving on raw fish and seawater.

He was returning from Panama where he had been taken after being rescued by the crew of the German-registered ship the Eibe Oldendorff.

The story with accompanying photos of Jason leaving the plane at the Palisadoes Airport and especially one of him nestled between his mother and sisters in the VIP lounge generated much talk for weeks.

Jason escaped death in an extraordinary sage of survival, which had a fairy tale ending, thanks to a chance encounter and the sixth sense of Captain Jurgen Pentzin, skipper of the Eibe Oldendorff.

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