“They tried to say they did not go fishing as the refrigerator and other parts of the vessel were broken.”īut the effect of this exploitation runs deeper than an opportunity for criminals to make money. “The captain and the crew were shocked to have been caught,” says Andreas Aditya Salim, part of the presidential taskforce in Indonesia that led the operation to snare the Andrey Dolgov. The operation to capture the vessel and its crew was the culmination of months of international cooperation between police and maritime authorities, painstaking detective work and satellite tracking worthy of a spy thriller. It was part of an international organised criminal network that thrives between the blurred lines of maritime law and on the corruption of officials. The Andrey Dolgov, or STS-50 or Sea Breez 1 as it also sometimes called itself, had been plundering the oceans of their most valuable living resource – fish. Yet it slipped through the authorities’ fingers on several occasions and managed to elude ships sent to chase it across the ocean.
It seems hard to believe that this creaking, corroded vessel was one of the most wanted on the high seas. The crew of the Andrey Dolgov surrendered. A drone and surveillance aircraft circled overhead while the Indonesian navy ship bore quickly down, closing a trap that had been months in the making. Pursued by a sleek, heavily armed naval patrol boat, the ungainly fishing vessel had little hope of escape. In the haze of an overcast April afternoon, the rust-stained hull of the Andrey Dolgov slapped its way through the ocean swell, oily water gushing from the ship’s waterlogged bilge as it made a desperate attempt to flee. What you won’t find is any reference to, well, you-know-what. You’ll find everything from the story about the world’s greatest space mission to the truth about whether our cats really love us, the epic hunt to bring illegal fishermen to justice and the small team which brings long-buried World War Two tanks back to life. We’ll be revisiting our most popular features from the last three years in our Lockdown Longreads. So now we’re dedicating a series to help you escape. is widely appreciated.BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you navigate the current pandemic, but we know that’s not all you want to read.
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