“Salas, a veteran pilot with twenty-five years' experience working the canal, worried about the people aboard the Zaandam. He was no scientist, but he'd heard the reports of flulike symptoms and passengers dying. There was an urgency and moral obligation to assist the stranded ship. "I wanted to show that if Panama could do this, so could the world. We are a small country, but we have a big heart," he cheerily explained, in an echo of a national slogan with the same refrain.” Inspirational Attitude Author:Michael Smith & Jonathan Franklin