Everyone in Denmark has at least two or three sailors in their family; sea travel is part of the DNA of our nation, and because of that, I'd always wanted to tell a story aboard a ship.
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Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
Denmark is like a big family of people.
My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.
Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has some connection to it.
My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
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