In March 2020, Tekarara Kabangaki would receive news that would change the course of her life forever: her husband, Eritara Aati Kaierua, was found dead aboard the fishing vessel he was working
In March 2020, Tekarara Kabangaki would receive news that would change the course of her life forever: her husband, Eritara Aati Kaierua, was found dead aboard the fishing vessel he was working on.
Now, more than five years on, questions remain concerning his death and the subsequent investigation.
Death at Sea is a short documentary film directed by Sara Pipernos (Human Rights at Sea) that chronicles the life and death of Eritara Aati Kaierua through the eyes of the family he left behind.
Eritara was a fisheries observer – a job that required him to hold vessels to account for regulatory offenses, such as overfishing or shark fining.
He was found dead on the Taiwanese flagged fishing vessel, the WIN FAR 636.
His death, initially ruled as a homicide via blunt force trauma, was overruled as death by natural causes.
The Death at Sea Justice Campaign (deathatseafilm.com), which advocates for compensation for his family, a renewed investigation into his death, and the development of rigorous international policies that serve to protect observers, was launched in 2023.
In the last two years, the film has been screened across the globe, at closed-door government meetings in Bangkok, in front of British
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