This week we discuss the 2015 sinking of the Russian freezer trawler Dalniy Vostok [Дальний Восток] in the Sea of Okhotsk.

*Originally released 9/6/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/16/22 

Sources referred to in the episode:

An animated representation of the sinking of Дальний Восток

Short interview footage with one of the survivors (with English subtitles)

ТАСС-English article from 4/7/15

'Крушение траулера "Дальний Восток"  в Охотском море' - Александр Крылов
- RIA Novosti article that was the primary Russian-language source for the episode

Затонувший траулер в Охотском море погубила жадность хозяев
- Komsomolskaya Pravda article

Russian trawler sinks off Kamchatka with 56 dead
- BBC News

'Trawler tragedy lifts veil on illegal recruitment' - Wa Lone and Laignee Barron  
- The Myanmar Times

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