Timor Sea

Forrester had watched in helpless horror as the other ship dipped a silver wing, then nosed down ever so slowly, it seemed, down, down, in a dive that seemed to take hours as Forrester's plane tracked it, ending in a tiny splash like a pebble being thrown into a pond.

then the grimly beautiful iridescence of oil and gasoline spreading across the glassy waters of the Timor Sea.

No parachutes had opened on the long journey down.

An Australian air-sea rescue launch and helicopter were at the scene of the crash in minutes, but neither bodies nor survivors had been found then or later.

During all that time, they used each other's notes constantly.

But Bentley was dead.' Forster read on, stunned.

First, you'll want to know what happened over the Timor Sea after the shot.

Put very simply, I, the rest of the technicians, and the crew of the B-29 were trans-shipped to another vehicle, without any damage to ourselves.

So we're this amazing immersion that's happened since time immemorial of the south of us, our Aboriginal cousins, and to the north of us, our Papua New Guinean Melanesian cousins.

To the west, we have the Timor Sea.

We've got Arafura Sea in all of Southeast Asia.

And then to the east, All of Pacifica, the entire Pacific Ocean.

And Fury is about a year in my life as a young woman when I ran away, ran away to sea, basically, after a series of traumas culminating with a traumatic sexual assault trial.

I ran away as far as I could go with few resources and became a deckhand on a trawler in the Timor Sea during the worst season that at that time the Gulf had ever known.

And that experience of being at sea with five men was my salvation.

It was an extraordinary book.

So for my own research, I'm very interested in HMAS Voyager down at Botano, which was beached while it was landing, those second, fourth replacements we were talking about earlier.

HMAS Armidale, which is somewhere in the Timor Sea and has not yet been found.

And there are also ships in Dili Harbour, a Japanese ship, the Nanyai Maru, and 30 tonnes of Japanese ammunition tipped over the side of Dili into Dili waters in September 1945.

How much of this has ever been officially surveyed or mapped and how much of it exists as knowledge in communities?

And I've been offshore ever since, basically.

So I've been longlining for about 45 years, fished most of the oceans, you know, South Pacific, Southern Ocean, Tasman Sea, coral and Timor Sea.

So you had a good look around anyway.

So, yeah, at least the last 40 years I've been offshore.