00:00Indonesian fisher Yatin Raudin is one of the roughly 30,000 foreign nationals that crew Taiwan's fishing fleet.
00:07Unlike some of his countrymen who've reportedly suffered abuse and forced labor, he says he's had it fairly good.
00:14He gets his pay on time, and he's treated okay by his captain.
00:18But on November 6, after setting out from Ba Do Tzu port on the north coast, his boat capsized.
00:24The crew grabbed life jackets. For an hour or so, they were at the mercy of the sea until another boat rescued them.
00:50His was one of two boats to flip over that day.
00:53One captain died, and the coast guard says five people are still missing.
00:57The Taiwan Transportation Safety Board, which probes serious accidents at sea, says that 29 of the 34 deaths it's investigated over the past few years involved fishing boats.
01:08Some people who work with migrant fishers see lax enforcement of safety standards as one reason for the high number of accidents.
01:15Still, even with the state of Taiwan's fleet, Lee believes 80% of accidents are preventable, or could be, if laws were properly enforced.
01:42But for fishers like Yatin Raudin, they feel they'll have to look after themselves.
01:46Yeah, they have to be ready for themselves.
01:50They have to be ready for themselves.
01:51I mean, they don't know what happened. They don't know what happened. They don't know.
01:55They have to be ready for themselves.
01:57They don't know what happened.
01:58Instead of lifting up.
02:01You
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