Correspondence
Email sent to the contact address for Rongcheng Rongyuan Fishery Co. Ltd.
The email requested comment on the following: The Outlaw Ocean Project's reporting, including interviews with individuals in Montevideo and a review of original documents pertaining to the below medical case, has shown the following: 1. Rafly Maulana Sadad, while working on the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 978, fell down a flight of stairs and broke his back. He immediately went back to work pulling nets, then fainted, and woke up in bed. 2. The captain refused to take him to shore, and he spent the next five months on the ship, his condition worsening. Sadad’s friends helped him to eat and bathe, but he was disoriented, and often lay in a pool of his own urine. 3. In August, 2021, the captain dropped Sadad off in Montevideo, and he spent ten days in the hospital, before being flown home.