Then there was another case of 128 fishermen, mostly Burmese, who I helped rescue, as well. After that, people kept coming to report incidents to me. That was the first time I received a case of Thai fishermen in Indonesia, or what I call the Indonesian fishing crew. He reported the incident to us because he barely lived. He was a fisherman that went to work in Indonesia with 66 other men. I was working on one case in 2004, where a migrant child's relative was sick from Beriberi. The fishermen are the parents of kids I've helped. You claimed in the documentary that hundreds of enslaved fishermen showed up on your doorstep one day and you decided to help them. With fear or being afraid, you need to be cautious or mindful and not let your guard down. I'm scared that I'm unable to help other people. The only thing I'm afraid of is that I won't be able to finish my work. While filming, the captain of the boat said to me, "You may get hurt." I told him, "It's okay, everybody dies, eventually." I'm more fearful of not doing things. You've really never feared being hurt or killed while filming Ghost Fleet? What about any of your other missions? You mentioned in the film that fear is a kind of death. "You may be beaten or caught, but you just have to talk it out calmly. You can't be careless and you have to be aware." She pauses, sinking into her chair. "But to choose to work in this environment- I can't have fear. I'm prepared to die," Patima says, shaking her head mournfully. "I never think I'm going to come back alive. Despite what happens, these efforts are dangerous and almost always life-threatening. There are times when they don't want to leave their wives and kids and go back home. Sometimes it takes years for Patima to find them. Some of the men suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, while others are still left homeless foraging for leaves and grass in Indonesia. Today, he struggles with severe alcohol addiction from his harrowing experiences. Patima and her team brought him back after he was stranded on Benjina Island. Pong, another rescued survivor in Ghost Fleet, reunited with his father at the airport in Bangkok after being enslaved for three years.
Together, they continue to rescue other trafficked fishermen and pursue justice for all. He's one of the only survivors who have been compensated. "She's like family to me." Five months after his rescue, LPN helped him receive 300,000 baht, which is about $9,400. She showed up at the prison and released him. "Patima is the one who saved my life, says Tun Lin. He escaped by jumping off the fishing boat-until he was hunted down in a jungle, captured and thrown into an Indonesian prison. I was forced to work around the clock," says Tun Lin in Ghost Fleet. One survivor, Tun Lin, was kidnapped when he was 14 and forced to fish for 11 years off the coast of Somalia. These men have spent years out in sea and often their families don't know they're still alive. Her goal is to rescue, reunite them with their families and obtain wages for them.
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Patima often travels to Indonesia looking for captive men and attempts to bring them back to their homeland and free them. Some of the enslaved men jumped overboard to escape their harsh realities, while others are captured and locked up in prison or even killed. They do this to solve their labor shortage and keep up with the demands of Thailand's sprawling seafood business, one of the largest in the world. Companies hired traffickers to lure and kidnap migrant workers from rural Thailand or impoverished neighboring countries like Myanmar and Cambodia for little to no pay.
Her plights and heroism are uniquely captured in the 2018 documentary, Ghost Fleet, directed by Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron, which reveals decades of illegal and unregulated fishing that has forced boats to travel further from Thai shores to garner a worthwhile catch. After freeing thousands of men forced into lives of slave labor, her diplomatic efforts led to a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2017. Even if it means dodging the mafia, the police and government officials who have all attempted to kill her-more times than she can even count. Patima has devoted her life to saving others. But humanity itself is just as often at risk on the open waters, where international law is often powerless to stop the illegal fishing and human trafficking that feels like something out of the 1800's.
The world's oceans are under attack from a litany of man made problems: over-fishing, ocean plastic and climate change. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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