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Blake killed
by pirates
■ SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Peter Blake, who
i|' hjaded the New Zealand crew that won the
IHnerica’s Cup in 1995 and 2000, was shot and
*'Hlled by pirates during a robbery of his boat on
the Amazon River.
■s to haveawininlbi Blake was killed late Wednesday during a
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ee has been ono^M^ P°B ce chief Rosilene Martins de Sena said.
■ Three or four assailants approached the
xamaster in a rubber dinghy commonly used by
■rates on the Amazon and shot Blake, 53, when
he tried to resist the holdup, Sena said Thursday.
■ Two crew members were treated for minor
■juries in the hospital in the nearby town of
■acapa.
According to local media, the killers took a
are engine and several watches.
Alan Sefton, one of Blake’s friends and a
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id the crew spent two months in the upper reaches
e finally gone :: [the Amazon and Rio Negro and had encountered
thing but “friendly, warm, hospitable people.”
“And as soon as the boat gets back into so
iled civilization, something tragic happens,”
fton told The Associated Press.
■ Sefton said Blake’s boat was anchored off
Bacapa in the mouth of the Amazon, awaiting
Istoms clearance to leave Brazil after a two-
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Brazil’s foreign ministry said the “government
deeply regrets the tragic death of New Zealand’s’
renowned explorer, yachtsman and scientist.”
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, it added,
“has ordered that the criminals be promptly iden
tified and arrested.”
In March 2000, Blake said he had received let
ters from someone threatening to kill him and
harm his family.
“We’ve always got crank mail, but it has been
going beyond that recently,” Blake said at the
time. “So we have taken all the precautions we
were advised to take.”
In November 2000, Blake went on a three-
month study of wildlife in the South Pole region.
He then traveled to the Amazon for several months
of sailing.
American skipper Dennis Conner, a three-time
America’s Cup winner who was beaten by Team
New Zealand 5-0 in 1995, was impressed with
Blake’s determination.
“He was a hero and role model for the New
Zealand people and obviously a winner that was
focused and accomplished his goals, whether it
was winning the round-the-world race or the
America’s Cup,” Conner said Thursday.
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