From Mike de Petrovsky
THOUGH my relationship with Mike Berry consisted of only a few brief encounters while teaching navigation at Highlands College, I liked the man for what he was.

As a small contribution to the commendations already presented in acknowledgement of his services to maritime security and rescue, I would suggest that we remember him as we do our other maritime heroes, such as Nelson and Drake.

He may not have travelled as far, yet his courage and contribution to society would seem to have paralleled and excelled many of those whose memorial stones lie in some of our most prestigious buildings.

Therefore, I would suggest, it would be a warm token of our gratitude were we to cement, into the walls of the maritime museum, a plaque in recognition of his services to those of us who sail the seas, and to the lifeboat institution whose members seek to save those of us who the sea would seek to devour through our own incompetence or misfortune.