Every time a bomb exploded nearby when Satya Dev Rahul was stranded on board a ship in Yemen, the young seafarer feared for his life.

For nine months in 2024, he was trapped on the MV Captain Tarek, anchored in Hodeidah Port, while Yemen was at war and subjected to regular bombing raids .

As explosions lit up the sky, he could see terror on the faces of his colleagues. All of them had signed on as seafarers a year earlier, but none had been paid – a pattern of exploitation in the shipping industry that they were unaware of.

Months before, their employer, Sata Chartering Shipping and Co, had stopped communicating with them and abandoned the vessel, leaving the crew members to fend for themselves.

“There were blasts left and right, and we were in between. The ship would vibrate.

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