The Red Sea Sharks
Piotr Skut, an eyepatch-wearing Estonian pilot, appears in two albums: "The Red Sea Sharks" and "Flight 714 to Sydney". In "The Red Sea Sharks", Skut flies one of the DeHavilland Mosquitoes used by Sheikh Bab El Ehr to seize power in Khemed, and his squad strafes the boat Tintin and Haddock are using to cross the Red Sea. Tintin shoots down Skut's plane with an assault rifle in self-defence, but later rescues Skut from the waters onto a hastily assembled life raft. Grateful for his rescue, Skut becomes a faithful friend and later refuses to betray Tintin and Haddock, instead sharing the rest of the adventure with them. He repairs the sabotaged radio of the S.S. "Ramona" and steers the "Ramona" to outmaneuver torpedoes while Tintin calls for help, which arrives just in time to save the boat from a submarine's attack.