0:00:02 > 0:00:04Three British workers - a train driver,
0:00:04 > 0:00:07a bin man
0:00:07 > 0:00:08and a fisherman.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11They've all accepted the challenge to do their job
0:00:11 > 0:00:15in some of the toughest conditions on the planet.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19How safe is it to go through the breakers in the boat?
0:00:19 > 0:00:24If I said it was tough before, you could probably times that by 100.
0:00:24 > 0:00:29I'm so upset at what goes on here, I would like to go and knock them out, to tell you the truth.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33Cornish fisherman Andy Giles is swapping
0:00:33 > 0:00:34his state-of-the-art trawler
0:00:34 > 0:00:38for a dugout canoe in the rough seas off Sierra Leone.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41For a minute, I thought we were goners.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44I thought, "Oh, my God. Here we go". I thought I was going for a swim.
0:00:44 > 0:00:463,000 miles from home,
0:00:46 > 0:00:50he'll discover a world where catching fish can be a matter of life and death.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54- I see another!- Shake my hand.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57- Can we throw him back now? - No, no, no!- Ha-ha-ha-ha.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00He'll live in a remote African fishing village
0:01:00 > 0:01:03fighting for its survival,
0:01:03 > 0:01:07and he'll confront the foreign trawlers stealing their catch.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Right, we'll go...there's one alongside here.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11We'll go...he can't run.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Unbelievable, really, what these guys are getting away with.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Unbelievable.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Andy Giles has been fishing the seas off the Cornish coast for more than 20 years.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Coming down, mate.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44At 40 years old,
0:01:44 > 0:01:49he's the proud skipper of the 100 tonne trawler, the Guiding Light.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54I've not always been a fisherman.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56I worked in a shop when I was younger,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59albeit a fish shop, but I didn't like it.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03I decided to go the other route and go catching the fish.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07You couldn't do the job if you didn't love it.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10I don't know...it's a way of life more than a job to me.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13When you put the nets away in the morning,
0:02:13 > 0:02:18you don't know what you're going to catch. It's a nice surprise.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22I still get excited now, a little bit, which is a bit strange and funny, I suppose, but...
0:02:22 > 0:02:26Costing £750,000,
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Andy's trawler is designed to take the strain out of fishing.
0:02:30 > 0:02:35On a good day, he can land more than £1,000 worth of fish.
0:02:42 > 0:02:48The monkfish, that's big value fish. Sea bass - big value fish.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Quite happy with that, really. It's all right.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Once on board, the catch is gutted,
0:02:57 > 0:03:02sorted, washed and put below decks ready for market.
0:03:02 > 0:03:08The Guiding Light is equipped with the latest technology to locate and hunt down the fish.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12There are also a few home comforts on board.
0:03:12 > 0:03:17Obviously, a nice chair, telly and the internet, it's all nice to have,
0:03:17 > 0:03:22because you're spending a lot of time here so, keep the boredom factor away as well, obviously.
0:03:22 > 0:03:27In a few days' time, Andy will be leaving his trawler and saying goodbye
0:03:27 > 0:03:31to the quiet Cornish village where he lives with his family.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Count them. One, two, three, four, five, six.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Are you counting all the fishies?
0:03:37 > 0:03:42He's heading off into the unknown with only his fishing skills to fall back on.
0:03:43 > 0:03:48It's a question of, "Can Andy hack it as a fisherman when everything's taken away from him?"
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Can I do it? I don't know. I'm going to have to wait and see. Hopefully I can.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Sierra Leone, West Africa -
0:03:56 > 0:04:02a country of five million people on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04This is one of the poorest countries in the world.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09Its large coastal population relies on one thing to stay alive -
0:04:09 > 0:04:11fish.
0:04:11 > 0:04:16Every day, thousands of subsistence fishermen put to sea in wooden canoes
0:04:16 > 0:04:19in a daily struggle to feed their families.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Now, their way of life is under threat.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27Trawlers from as far afield as China are illegally plundering the coastal fishing grounds
0:04:27 > 0:04:30and leaving very little for the locals.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34Much of the country's fish finds its way to the tables
0:04:34 > 0:04:37of Europe and the Far East,
0:04:37 > 0:04:42yet more than a third of Sierra Leone's children are chronically malnourished.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Just looks like there's nothing here at all.
0:04:57 > 0:05:03There's no buildings, there's no power lines, there's no... there's nothing, nothing at all.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07Andy is heading to the remote south of the country
0:05:07 > 0:05:09and a small fishing village called Mania.
0:05:11 > 0:05:17Whether they'll have painted faces and everything and dance round the fire in loincloths, I don't know,
0:05:17 > 0:05:21but I'm expecting the worst at the moment, to be honest, so...
0:05:21 > 0:05:26not that that's bad, but totally different, totally alien to what I'm used to.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31You sure someone lives here? I don't think there's anybody living here.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44Hey.
0:05:44 > 0:05:49Andy's hosts for the week will be Kabba Kaine...
0:05:49 > 0:05:51..and his cousin Ishmael.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55- Ishmael?- Yes. How are you? - I'm good. Are you good?- Yeah, good.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58- OK. Plenty of fish?- Yes.- Good.
0:05:58 > 0:06:04Mania Village is home to around 100 people who, like Andy, make their living from the sea.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Everybody from the village seems to have turned up to see
0:06:07 > 0:06:09who's the white man in the boat, so it was very nice.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Kids wouldn't leave my hand go.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Then one would let go and another one would fill in,
0:06:16 > 0:06:20so it's very, very friendly, to say the least, so it's...
0:06:20 > 0:06:22I didn't expect that, to be honest.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- I have friends.- Yes, they are. - Lots of friends.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29For the next week, Andy will be living with Ishmael's family.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33- So, come with us, come and see. - OK.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38- The bed.- Yeah.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41- So welcome.- Thank you very much. - Thank you.
0:06:41 > 0:06:46- And these are all your kids?- This is my daughter and this is my son.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49- You're sure they're not all yours? - Yeah. No.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52He'll be joining one of Mania's ten boat crews
0:06:52 > 0:06:56and he's keen to get started.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Can you show me the boat we're going to go to sea on?
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- The boat? Yes, I'm ready.- OK, cool.
0:07:05 > 0:07:10Until now, Andy has no idea what kind of boat he'll be fishing from.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23Andy will be putting to sea in what is, in effect,
0:07:23 > 0:07:24a hollowed-out tree.
0:07:30 > 0:07:36- I see the boat has got a hole at the back, it's stitched together with twine at the back.- Yeah.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44- The breakers here, yeah? Pushed the bottom of the boat in?- Yes.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47The breakers which damaged Kabba's canoe mark the point
0:07:47 > 0:07:50where the river meets the ocean.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51Often rising up to four metres high,
0:07:51 > 0:07:56they form a daunting barrier to the open sea and the best fishing grounds.
0:07:57 > 0:08:02How safe is it to go through the breakers in a boat? Are you expecting me to do this?
0:08:06 > 0:08:10- I wouldn't like to go through the breakers in my boat.- It not easy.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Ishmael and Kabba have picked up on Andy's nervousness.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20In a boat like this? Zero.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24OK.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29In a boat, but not this sort of boat.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31- It was like this?- No.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Can I swim? Yeah.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37I can swim, yeah.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40It's beginning to dawn on Andy
0:08:40 > 0:08:44that all his fishing experience might not mean much out here.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50I don't suppose they have much faith in me and you have to prove yourself.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Anybody can say, I'm a fisherman. I'll have to prove myself.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56I don't want to let anybody down or anything,
0:08:56 > 0:09:01so we'll have to see later on and see where it takes us.
0:09:03 > 0:09:09Kabba and Ishmael are also having their doubts about taking Andy through the breakers.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49Andy is going to have to get used to having fish for dinner
0:09:49 > 0:09:51and lunch and breakfast.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57It's very spicy.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01- Eat.- I am eating, I'm eating.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03I have a small appetite.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11As Andy reflects on his first day in Sierra Leone,
0:10:11 > 0:10:15his semi-detached house in Cornwall is beginning to feel a long way away.
0:10:17 > 0:10:22I had tea - rice and spicy fish, which I wasn't too keen on.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27It's getting late, there's no electric, no lights on anywhere,
0:10:27 > 0:10:31there's no TV, there's no...there seems to be people milling around,
0:10:31 > 0:10:35but, erm, a very, very strange place to be, a very strange place.
0:10:36 > 0:10:42We'll see how tomorrow goes and hopefully it's, erm, OK.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57Overnight, the village fishermen have been busy.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07When do you sleep?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16So what is the plan for today?
0:11:30 > 0:11:32I understand that.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40OK. I don't wanna do that. No, I don't want to capsize and die.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48OK, I'm listening.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Today, they're taking me out in the lagoon. They need to train me up.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55If I capsize the boat, they're in danger as well as me,
0:11:55 > 0:12:01so I've got to learn how to balance the boat, learn how to... what not to do, what to do,
0:12:01 > 0:12:06so, yeah, definitely, their safety as much as mine, so it's gonna be difficult.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Despite 20 years' experience as a fisherman,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Andy's going to have to start from scratch, with the kids.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29The kids that are rowing the boat, you know, they look like men.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33They're big and muscley. Is this from rowing all the time?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42The guy in front of me is about 14 years old
0:12:42 > 0:12:46and he's built like a brick shithouse.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50He's got muscles where you'd expect a bodybuilder to have muscles. He's just...
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Turn the boat!
0:12:54 > 0:12:57I keep falling off the seat, my pants are going up my bum.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01It's certainly not as comfy as the seat I've got on the boat.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Turn! Turn it this way!
0:13:03 > 0:13:05OK, good.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09I must be doing this wrong. I've got a blister already.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10Sorry, yeah, yeah.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17APPLAUSE
0:13:17 > 0:13:20A round of applause. I must be doing something right(!)
0:13:22 > 0:13:26I thought I was in shape. I'm clearly not.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Me? Hot.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Little has changed in this fishing community for centuries.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50But the way of life here is now hanging in the balance.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57The rich fishing grounds along this coast are supposed to be protected.
0:13:57 > 0:14:02There's a five mile exclusion zone to keep out trawlers
0:14:02 > 0:14:07but, increasingly, big foreign boats are fishing illegally close to the shore,
0:14:07 > 0:14:10with tragic consequences for the villagers.
0:14:45 > 0:14:50Tragic story. It's...you know, you're fighting for a living,
0:14:50 > 0:14:53- they're wrecking everything for you. - We suffer, we suffer, we suffer.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Everybody's suffering because of these trawlers.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00I can't see the trawlers. They're not here now. When are they here?
0:15:09 > 0:15:12How anybody deals with having your loved ones, nephews,
0:15:12 > 0:15:17uncles, be killed at sea, it's just...it's shocking, really,
0:15:17 > 0:15:19and they're losing life.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23It just seems a free for all here, you know, for the big trawlers.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33Early next morning, Andy is about to see the problem first hand.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42So, Kabba's just knocked...woke me up.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46It's three o'clock and there's trawlers on the beach.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54But they do sound close.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56I can hear the engines.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07He's closer in than where we were yesterday.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11Kabba and Ishmael were about to go night fishing
0:16:11 > 0:16:16before they spotted the two illegal trawlers working under cover of darkness.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20You can't go now?
0:16:24 > 0:16:26You can't go because he's there.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30- There's another one here, but he's turned his lights off.- Yeah.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33He's being sneaky. Sneaky - lights.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36But he's even closer. Is he...?
0:16:36 > 0:16:40The trawlers make it too dangerous to go out fishing.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42FRUSTRATED SIGH
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Andy is realising that in this part of the world,
0:16:56 > 0:17:01trawlermen are public enemy number one, and that gives him a problem.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06I need to tell Kabba and Ishmael that, erm, I am a trawlerman,
0:17:06 > 0:17:10that I own a trawler, which is going to be difficult.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13I'm not sure how they're going to take it.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15It's going to be difficult.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18I'm hoping that they accept
0:17:18 > 0:17:21that I'm not the same as the trawlermen here,
0:17:21 > 0:17:25but I don't know when to tell them or how to tell them, you know?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Do I drop it into a conversation
0:17:27 > 0:17:30or do I actually make a point of bringing it up?
0:17:30 > 0:17:32I think that's probably the best thing,
0:17:32 > 0:17:35tell them that I've got something to tell them
0:17:35 > 0:17:38and make sure they haven't got a knife in their hand
0:17:38 > 0:17:40or a shovel or a big stick or something!
0:17:40 > 0:17:42- Here.- Yeah.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46- Cut the tail off?- Yes, do it.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51The following morning, while cutting up fish for bait, Andy decides to come clean.
0:17:54 > 0:17:59There's, erm, something that's quite awkward that I need to talk to you about.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03The type of fishing I do back home in England,
0:18:03 > 0:18:05which may sound a bit awkward,
0:18:05 > 0:18:09but I hope you'll understand when I tell you I own a trawler.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12My fishing is trawling. That is what I do.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14I don't do this.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18I understand that when you hear the word trawler,
0:18:18 > 0:18:22that it fills you with hatred.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38I wouldn't ever do what was happening on your shore. That wouldn't happen.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41I wouldn't do that and I wouldn't...
0:18:43 > 0:18:45..it wouldn't happen in our country.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18We wouldn't want to ruin anybody's living by towing gear away,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21by causing loss of life, it just wouldn't happen.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24OK.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31OK. Happy.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34- Happy?- Yeah.- Good. I'm glad. - Yeah.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43I was a bit, sort of, dreading telling them
0:19:43 > 0:19:46that I was a trawlerman, for obvious reasons,
0:19:46 > 0:19:50but they seem to have taken it very well.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52I'm glad of that.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55I could have been packing my bags and swimming home,
0:19:55 > 0:19:59so it's good that they've accepted me still.
0:20:05 > 0:20:06After clearing the air,
0:20:06 > 0:20:11it's time for Andy to have his first taste of fishing, Sierra Leone-style.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14So what's this for?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Well, this is the sail.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17- What's it made of?- Plastic.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20- Plastic?- Yes.- This looks like an umbrella.- Yes, it is umbrella.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- Umbrella and plastic. All mixed up.- OK!
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- And this looks like a plastic bag here.- Yes.- OK.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28I did a little bit of sailing when I was younger,
0:20:28 > 0:20:30so I'll see if I can remember, OK?
0:20:30 > 0:20:32OK.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35- OK, remember.- Yes.- Yes.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38The whole operation that they seem to have got, the rig and everything,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41is all on such a shoestring, it's unbelievable.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44There's bits of umbrella, plastic bags,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47everything is just cobbled together
0:20:47 > 0:20:52with things washed up on the beach or they've found on the land that someone's left behind before.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Everything is put to good use.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02- It's hot today, isn't it?- It is. - It's about 30 degrees today, at least, I would think.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Sweat is just running off me, man.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Kabba and Ishmael are setting a punishing pace.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23And Andy is struggling to keep up.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32It's easier standing up, to be honest.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Sitting down just does your knees in, your legs in, your elbows in.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42The road? Ah, the road, the road out through?
0:21:42 > 0:21:43The gateway, yeah?
0:21:43 > 0:21:48Andy's about to tackle the breakers for the first time.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01It's more than two miles out to the breakers.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06Andy's already exhausted, but the only safe way through is at speed.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Ah, Jesus!
0:22:32 > 0:22:35THEY CHUCKLE
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Oh dear.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49The breakers are behind them. Now it's time to fish.
0:22:52 > 0:22:58The lines are set, and all they can do is wait.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28That's not a good start.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32You spend all morning baiting hooks up and cutting bait
0:23:32 > 0:23:37and then they catch nothing, it's just... poor, very, very poor.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Feel for them, really.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45If Ishmael and Kabba don't catch any fish,
0:23:45 > 0:23:48their extended families will go hungry.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57I'm just getting more demoralised.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01I'm just hoping we catch a couple of fish in a minute. There's still a few hooks to go, so...
0:24:07 > 0:24:10The foreign trawlers have done their damage.
0:24:10 > 0:24:15As a trawlerman himself, Andy knows the impact they can have.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17He's on, unfortunately, prime trawling ground,
0:24:17 > 0:24:22so the trawler's probably been in in the night, two or three boats here,
0:24:22 > 0:24:25and... what they haven't scooped up,
0:24:25 > 0:24:30they've chased away, so that's why there's nothing here.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37But the trawlers didn't get everything.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39So we have one.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43That's not gonna go very far between 30 people.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53It's time to head home,
0:24:53 > 0:24:57and, with the tide turning, the breakers are rising.
0:25:03 > 0:25:08Their safe passage now depends on the sail made out of plastic bags and umbrellas.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33They must stay ahead of the breakers, or the canoe will capsize.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57For a minute there, I thought we were goners.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Wow...
0:25:59 > 0:26:02But a breaker picked us up, boat started to heel
0:26:02 > 0:26:07and then we're broadside onto the breaker, and it was...
0:26:07 > 0:26:10my heart was going ten to the dozen, I was, oh!
0:26:10 > 0:26:13I thought, "Oh my God, here we go". I thought I was gonna go for a swim,
0:26:13 > 0:26:17but luckily Kabba, fantastic captain today.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Some hairy moments, so...
0:26:28 > 0:26:32- Yeah, I'm a good captain. - You are the only captain. - Yeah, yeah, yeah!
0:26:38 > 0:26:42Andy has survived his first encounter with the breakers,
0:26:42 > 0:26:48but the poor catch has driven home how illegal trawling affects the villagers of Mania.
0:26:48 > 0:26:53I feel their anger, but what can you do?
0:26:53 > 0:26:57You've got a wood canoe, basically, against a 30 metre steel trawler.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00They're not gonna do anything at all. They can't do anything.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03They've already lost one life, how can they lose any more?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05They can't do it, so... it's such a shame.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09I feel like I wanna help out by some means,
0:27:09 > 0:27:11cos these are good, good men,
0:27:11 > 0:27:14just working to provide for their family, so...
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- No fish, so... - Yeah, no fish.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31Next morning,
0:27:31 > 0:27:36and the only thing for breakfast is what's left of yesterday's rice.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41- Eat!- I'm eating.- Good.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47Everyone is talking about the poor catch.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06A small loan would feed his family,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09but Kabba is already heavily in debt
0:28:09 > 0:28:13from replacing nets destroyed by the trawlers.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Blimey, that's tough.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18He owes more than nine months' earnings.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31I understand that. Blimey.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33- You understand?- Yes.- OK.
0:28:33 > 0:28:37- So no feel bad.- No, OK. No.
0:28:37 > 0:28:38- Yes.- OK, OK.
0:28:39 > 0:28:40'I have to go to sea'
0:28:40 > 0:28:46to pay to feed my family, but it's nothing like that, I'm afraid.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48What I go through is nothing.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50We'd always get by, and there's always...
0:28:50 > 0:28:54if you go on the dole, the government give you money anyway, so...
0:28:54 > 0:28:58If these don't go to work, that's it, they cease to exist, so...
0:28:59 > 0:29:01It's a little bit different.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04A lot different, in fact, so...yeah.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07Without fish to sell,
0:29:07 > 0:29:11the villagers can't afford the most basic necessities.
0:29:11 > 0:29:16And Andy is about to learn just how precarious life is in Mania village.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33- Malaria?- Yes, malaria.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36- Yes.- Do children die in this village from catching malaria?
0:29:52 > 0:29:55Makes it all real, then, doesn't it? Blimey.
0:29:56 > 0:29:59'You think, if your own daughter's ill, it's...'
0:30:02 > 0:30:04Dunno, it's...
0:30:06 > 0:30:08..hugely, hugely upsetting.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13Just makes you think of home and stuff so...
0:30:13 > 0:30:14OK.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16HE CLEARS THROAT
0:30:29 > 0:30:33It seems to me that the children are suffering more than anybody else, or they suffer first,
0:30:33 > 0:30:35they're the...
0:30:37 > 0:30:41It's very shocking, and it sounds like everybody has lost a child.
0:30:44 > 0:30:49Luckily today, there is medicine for Ishmael's daughter,
0:30:49 > 0:30:54but the future of her community and thousands like it along the West African coast
0:30:54 > 0:30:57won't be secure until illegal trawling is controlled.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00It just feels like you wanna, I wanna help out more,
0:31:00 > 0:31:02I wanna...
0:31:02 > 0:31:04Actually, I will try, but it's...
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Feel for them.
0:31:16 > 0:31:17Freetown.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19The capital of Sierra Leone.
0:31:19 > 0:31:24Here, the trawlers transfer their catch onto bigger ships to be frozen
0:31:24 > 0:31:28and shipped around the world, including Europe.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32The trawlers are only interested in high-value fish,
0:31:32 > 0:31:37all the rest, including thousands of tons that local people could eat, are thrown away.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40It's a multi-million pound business.
0:31:41 > 0:31:49Andy has decided to go and confront the trawlermen about the impact they have on the villagers.
0:31:49 > 0:31:54So we're off to Freetown to hopefully see the trawlers that we've seen in the darkness.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57Whether they will let us aboard the boats, I don't know -
0:31:57 > 0:32:02I doubt it, but if we can blag our way on some way, we will.
0:32:02 > 0:32:06So I'm hoping I can sort of say I'm a fisherman from the UK and they might let me on,
0:32:06 > 0:32:10but I'm gonna have to hold these two back when we get there, I think,
0:32:10 > 0:32:13cos they could be stepping aboard to have a word with the skipper, so...
0:32:20 > 0:32:24Do you think we'll be able to get aboard these boats?
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Yes. I hope so.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28So these are the same vessels, yes?
0:32:28 > 0:32:31- Yeah.- You think so? This big one out here?
0:32:31 > 0:32:35- This big one.- How do you feel, to see the trawlers up close?
0:32:49 > 0:32:54The only way for Andy to get out to speak to the trawler skippers is to hire a local motorised canoe.
0:33:01 > 0:33:05So you can see that Kabba's getting very...animated,
0:33:05 > 0:33:08getting very excited about seeing the trawlers up close.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11I hope the skipper doesn't come out the wheelhouse,
0:33:11 > 0:33:13cos he could be jumping over and having a dust-up!
0:33:16 > 0:33:20As they approach, the first trawler weighs anchor.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26You can see he's turning.
0:33:26 > 0:33:30He's trying to evade us, definitely.
0:33:35 > 0:33:39There's one alongside here. We'll go, he can't run. He can't run.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43The crew of the second trawler aren't interested in talking either.
0:33:51 > 0:33:56And they seem prepared to do anything to keep Andy away from their boat.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58They obviously don't want us to film,
0:33:58 > 0:34:01cos they're firing catapults at us now.
0:34:06 > 0:34:07Whoa, whoa, whoa.
0:34:07 > 0:34:08Whoa, whoa.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13He's firing a catapult from us, he's firing stones off the deck
0:34:13 > 0:34:17or bits of steel off the deck, firing at us to get us to go.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30Ishmael and Kabba are saying that this is what happens
0:34:30 > 0:34:32when they get near them at sea. When they row up
0:34:32 > 0:34:35in their little boats, they're on the big boat, firing stones at them.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38It's unbelievable, it should be the other way round.
0:34:40 > 0:34:44Can't believe how close that was. It's quite hairy, someone firing ball bearings at you.
0:34:44 > 0:34:49They obviously know what they're doing is totally, totally out of order, and...
0:34:49 > 0:34:51wrong.
0:34:53 > 0:34:57Andy has discovered how powerless the fishermen feel.
0:34:57 > 0:35:01Lack of resources and corruption mean that the government here
0:35:01 > 0:35:04does little to enforce the fishing laws.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33In Mania, Kabba and Ishmael are now desperate to land some fish.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35This side is for the...
0:35:37 > 0:35:38Push.
0:35:38 > 0:35:39Push?
0:35:39 > 0:35:40OK.
0:35:40 > 0:35:45To make it float, you know, they've got a flip-flop cut in half,
0:35:45 > 0:35:48it's obviously been well worn, look, a big hole in it.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Bits of polystyrene.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52I've got to tie it back.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54- You're gonna tie it down? - To make it strong.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57- So it doesn't move up and down the pole.- Yes.
0:35:57 > 0:35:58Ingenious, yeah, it's very good,
0:35:58 > 0:36:00making use of what you have...
0:36:00 > 0:36:04the resources you have, isn't it? It's good.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07No, at home that would be all in the skip and they'd be using new floats.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12Fishermen the world over are notoriously superstitious
0:36:12 > 0:36:14and Ishmael and Kabba are no exception.
0:36:16 > 0:36:20When all else fails, they head for a special part of the lagoon.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23- I'm going to show you the place. - Yes, the place. Secret place.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27- Yes.- He's gonna show me the secret place where we're gonna fish.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Heading into the lagoon,
0:36:30 > 0:36:33Andy's beginning to look like part of the crew.
0:36:34 > 0:36:39There's a shipwreck there, near where we're heading for. You can see its mast. Big ship?
0:36:40 > 0:36:42This way?
0:36:42 > 0:36:44Yes.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46Throw that in the...
0:36:46 > 0:36:47Bismillah.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50- Go get 'em!- Yes.
0:36:52 > 0:36:54How old is the boat now?
0:36:58 > 0:37:00No, OK.
0:37:00 > 0:37:01Yes.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04Kabba has fixed the leak with a...
0:37:04 > 0:37:08Well, I don't know what he's fixed it with. It's part of his trousers, by the look of it.
0:37:08 > 0:37:13Yeah. He's pulled the hem off his trousers and stuck it in the hole to stop it leaking, so...
0:37:13 > 0:37:14It's worked!
0:37:14 > 0:37:17And we're still here, we're still afloat, so...
0:37:17 > 0:37:21So are we gonna paddle now to the other end of the net?
0:37:21 > 0:37:24Drift together with the net, OK.
0:37:24 > 0:37:26We started off next to the shipwreck, which is there.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29I would think we've covered about a mile already.
0:37:29 > 0:37:35The strong current has swept the net away out through the breakers.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37The crew set off in pursuit.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45So we're heading in through the breakers, which is gonna be hairy.
0:37:48 > 0:37:49Paddle?
0:38:11 > 0:38:13Yeah, Andy, that is good!
0:38:27 > 0:38:31Out here in the trawling grounds, Ishmael isn't feeling hopeful.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35So you're not expecting many fish?
0:38:35 > 0:38:37That's a shame.
0:38:39 > 0:38:40No.
0:38:42 > 0:38:46What they used to do back in England probably in the '70s.
0:38:46 > 0:38:48Oh! Another one, yeah?
0:38:48 > 0:38:51It's there, yes, there, yes, there!
0:38:54 > 0:38:55Whoa!
0:38:58 > 0:38:59That's good.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08- Is that good, yes?- Yes.
0:39:08 > 0:39:10- Good fish.- Good fish. - Happy?- Yeah, happy now.
0:39:10 > 0:39:13- Good, you're happy. As long as you're happy.- I start to happy.
0:39:15 > 0:39:18I'm happy now, yeah, happy now we've caught a fish.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20We need to see another one now.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22- Spanish.- Spanish?- Yes.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Hey!
0:39:29 > 0:39:30Hey! There he is.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32Spanish! Hey!
0:39:35 > 0:39:37OK. Shall I throw him back now?
0:39:37 > 0:39:38No, no, no, no!
0:39:38 > 0:39:39THEY LAUGH
0:39:47 > 0:39:49- That's a good fish.- Yeah.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51- Is that Spanish?- It's Spanish.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53I'm so happy now with this.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56They probably think I was a right Jonah, they wouldn't bring me again.
0:39:56 > 0:40:00But we've caught some fish, they're happy, so that's good. I'm pleased for them.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03Yeah, another fish.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05It's beautiful but it's such hard work.
0:40:08 > 0:40:12For once, the trawlers seem to have left them a decent catch.
0:40:14 > 0:40:15No.
0:40:19 > 0:40:22THEY SING
0:40:31 > 0:40:35We've travelled about ten minutes and I'm absolutely knackered.
0:40:39 > 0:40:43Legs are hurting, my bum's hurting and my arms are hurting.
0:40:43 > 0:40:45Still they carry on paddling,
0:40:45 > 0:40:48and all jolly, and I'm like, "Oh, Jesus".
0:40:51 > 0:40:55To prove himself a fully fledged member of Kabba's crew,
0:40:55 > 0:41:00Andy has to dig deep and help bring the catch home across the breakers.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17- What?- More and more and more.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28Yeah, we are crossing now.
0:41:29 > 0:41:31OK.
0:41:39 > 0:41:40Yeah, yeah.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Go along the sand.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48My ass is killing me.
0:41:54 > 0:41:56- It's hard work, that is. - Yeah. Nice one.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00- Eh? Some fish? Yeah, we got some fish.- Fish, yeah.
0:42:00 > 0:42:04- You happy?- Yeah. Tomorrow... - Fish for breakfast.- Yes, yes, yes.
0:42:04 > 0:42:05Go.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10- OK.- All right.
0:42:13 > 0:42:16The fishing is good. Getting there and back is not so good.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19THEY LAUGH
0:42:23 > 0:42:28- Whoa!- My legs hurt...- Whoa. - ..my knees hurt from inside the boat rubbing when you're rowing.
0:42:28 > 0:42:33My ass hurts from every time you row, your bum moves on the seat, so my bum is numb.
0:42:33 > 0:42:38Feels good now to have gone out and actually caught some fish, so now we can actually eat tonight.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41I felt a bit guilty, and them saying there's no rice left.
0:42:41 > 0:42:45They didn't say it but you could tell they were leaning towards the fact
0:42:45 > 0:42:51cos they had an extra mouth to feed, so to actually contribute now is... It feels good.
0:42:51 > 0:42:56It was a bit hairy a few times, a wave come over the side and stuff and half-filled up with water
0:42:56 > 0:42:58but we've made it back in one piece so it's all good.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09One, two, three, four, five, six.
0:43:09 > 0:43:14- We had more than six, yeah?- Yes.- OK.
0:43:14 > 0:43:18There's always healthy competition between fishermen. It's no different from home.
0:43:18 > 0:43:23You're always trying to compete and trying to be the best. Their brother's boat has just come in,
0:43:23 > 0:43:26three of them, experienced fishermen, exactly the same amount of net,
0:43:26 > 0:43:32exactly the same time at sea, and they've caught six fish and we have seven and bigger fish,
0:43:32 > 0:43:35so I think the boys are happy, which is good.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Might get extra rice tonight.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41- Two cups of tea tomorrow. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.- OK?
0:43:41 > 0:43:44- THEY LAUGH - Whoo!
0:43:44 > 0:43:46This way?
0:43:46 > 0:43:50But a Mania fisherman's duties aren't over when the fish is landed.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52- That, all that on my head?- Yeah.
0:43:52 > 0:43:55- Oh, yeah, I can try...- Yeah. - ..but I might drop them.
0:43:57 > 0:44:01Well, I don't know. I don't carry things on my head.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03- Never?- Never.- Try.- Try. - Yeah, but...
0:44:12 > 0:44:15# Bet you're going fishing all of your time
0:44:15 > 0:44:18# Baby going fishing too... #
0:44:21 > 0:44:25They're three fish about 20 pound in weight.
0:44:25 > 0:44:30- It's actually not heavy, it's just... - Is it heavy? It's not... - It's flattening the top of my head.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34- Try, try.- Try.
0:44:34 > 0:44:35# I'm-a going fishing
0:44:35 > 0:44:37# Yes, I'm going fishing... #
0:44:37 > 0:44:40- Eh? I can't carry this all that way, no way.- Oh?
0:44:40 > 0:44:44- No chance. I can't...- Take it. - No, I can't carry it that far, no. - No, no.- Yeah.
0:44:49 > 0:44:52- You lazy! - I'm not lazy, it's not lazy.
0:44:52 > 0:44:56- I've carried six back. I've carried six.- You carried six? - Yes, when we had to...
0:44:56 > 0:45:00Women have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
0:45:00 > 0:45:03- nine, ten, 11, 12. - Oh, one dozen.- One dozen.
0:45:03 > 0:45:08# Yes, I'm going fishing And my baby going fishing too
0:45:08 > 0:45:10# Baby brother about to Run me out of my mind saying
0:45:10 > 0:45:14# "Can I go fishing with you?"
0:45:14 > 0:45:17# I took him on down To the fishing hole... #
0:45:17 > 0:45:19Do it like this.
0:45:22 > 0:45:26That's the stomach of the fish, is it? Is this the stomach?
0:45:26 > 0:45:27- Yes.- What do you do with that?
0:45:29 > 0:45:32They eat it? Blimey. They'll eat anything.
0:45:41 > 0:45:44The fishermen have come home triumphant
0:45:44 > 0:45:46but Andy is counting the cost.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Well, the blister count is up one, I think.
0:45:50 > 0:45:53I have one here from hauling the nets,
0:45:53 > 0:45:57I have one here from hauling the long lines, I have one here,
0:45:57 > 0:46:01so we're up to five, so we're doing well.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04Hopefully get to double figures by the end of the week, so...
0:46:19 > 0:46:23The smokehouses of Mania Village work round the clock.
0:46:23 > 0:46:27Yesterday's haul of seven fish was more than enough to feed the families,
0:46:27 > 0:46:31so the rest can be sold for badly needed cash.
0:46:31 > 0:46:33They're smoking the fish to preserve it.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36Obviously fresh fish in Africa is not going to last,
0:46:36 > 0:46:39cos there's no fridges, there's no freezers and no ice,
0:46:39 > 0:46:44so fresh fish is not going to be fresh for more than probably four or five hours, less than that,
0:46:44 > 0:46:48two or three hours in the sun, so they need to smoke the fish to preserve it,
0:46:48 > 0:46:51to keep it for the end of the week,
0:46:51 > 0:46:54cos then the market is at the end of the week.
0:47:02 > 0:47:07It's time to head off in search of wood for the smokehouse.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11Here? Yeah, here? Uh-huh. Oh.
0:47:25 > 0:47:27They don't stop, they're machines.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29I've just had a go at it.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32The wood is like bloody concrete.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34I'm knackered after cutting one, well, two things.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37I'm absolutely shattered. My hands are hurting.
0:47:37 > 0:47:41I'm going to sound like a right jessie when this goes out at home. It's going to be...
0:47:41 > 0:47:43But they don't stop.
0:47:43 > 0:47:47Look, he's up the blinking tree doing it now. It's just...
0:47:49 > 0:47:51Timber!
0:47:51 > 0:47:52Voila.
0:47:52 > 0:47:57They're fisherman they're tree surgeons, they're builders,
0:47:57 > 0:47:59they're net makers.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02It's just, you know... They're...
0:48:02 > 0:48:05They'd give Steve Redgrave a good run for his money in a rowing boat.
0:48:05 > 0:48:08It's just... They just don't stop.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16I'm cutting, I'm cutting.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26- Yeah, OK. - Cup of tea.- Cup of tea.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28- HE LAUGHS:- Yeah, yeah.
0:48:31 > 0:48:33- Fatima, me carry?- Yeah.
0:48:33 > 0:48:34Yes?
0:48:34 > 0:48:38Fatima, Ishmael's wife, is the boss of the smokehouse.
0:48:38 > 0:48:40- OK?- Mmm.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42You're going to carry more?
0:48:47 > 0:48:50- OK?- Mmm.
0:48:50 > 0:48:51Going to carry more?
0:48:51 > 0:48:53Yeah.
0:48:55 > 0:48:59Blimey. I feel so inadequate now.
0:48:59 > 0:49:02It's very, very heavy wood.
0:49:02 > 0:49:04I could carry a bit more than this but not much,
0:49:04 > 0:49:08and look what she's carrying. It's unbelievable.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14Fatima keeps the smokehouse running,
0:49:14 > 0:49:18turning the catch into a commodity that is the staple diet across Sierra Leone.
0:49:21 > 0:49:23It's damn hot in here.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38See the mouth here and the mouth here,
0:49:38 > 0:49:41so it's been it's literally been peeled apart in two halves.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45It doesn't look that appetising with all the bugs crawling all over it.
0:49:45 > 0:49:46It's just alive with things.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53- Really?- Mmm.- OK.
0:49:55 > 0:49:59Wow. So I've actually been eating this all week.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02I can't really believe it but it must taste OK,
0:50:02 > 0:50:07cos I haven't complained, so you must be a good cook.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10- A good cook. - Good cook, yeah.- Yes.
0:50:11 > 0:50:15So what a horrible place to be. I've been down there ten minutes
0:50:15 > 0:50:20and I'm covered in black and the smoke's just got to my eyes.
0:50:20 > 0:50:22It's incredibly hot in there.
0:50:22 > 0:50:26It's not a nice place to be for ten minutes, let alone for all day,
0:50:26 > 0:50:29smoking the fish, which is what she does. Fatima's in there.
0:50:29 > 0:50:34When they catch the fish, she splits it, she then takes it in there
0:50:34 > 0:50:36and looks after it, stokes the fire, collects the wood.
0:50:36 > 0:50:40It's a really, really long process, what she's doing,
0:50:40 > 0:50:43which is a total contrast to what I do at home.
0:50:43 > 0:50:47We catch the fish, we gut the fish, we come in in the evening,
0:50:47 > 0:50:49we chuck the fish ashore, that's the last we see of it.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52It's done, it's all sold, it's all weighed and iced
0:50:52 > 0:50:56and packed away and everything's done for us.
0:50:56 > 0:50:59Can you imagine if I took a boxful of fish home for my wife
0:50:59 > 0:51:01and said, "Here you are, crack on with that lot,
0:51:01 > 0:51:04"you've got to get that smoked by the end of the week"?
0:51:04 > 0:51:07She would just be like, "Bugger off, I'm off." She'd be gone.
0:51:07 > 0:51:10No, I don't think she'd be doing that.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18To feed and support 100 people solely on what comes out of the sea
0:51:18 > 0:51:22involves relentless graft from everyone in the village.
0:51:25 > 0:51:31If they came and worked this hard in England, they'd be rich people
0:51:31 > 0:51:33because they just work and they work
0:51:33 > 0:51:37and then they work some more and...
0:51:38 > 0:51:42Fatima today - fantastic. Three kids to look after,
0:51:42 > 0:51:48she's cooked everybody breakfast, she's then done the washing
0:51:48 > 0:51:50and then she's got down and got wood and chopped the wood
0:51:50 > 0:51:54and then she's got water and then she's smoked all the fish,
0:51:54 > 0:51:56you know, 40 hours a week.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59They would do 40 hours in a day if it was possible.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27After a week in the village, today Andy,
0:52:27 > 0:52:31Kabba and Ishmael will be taking their dried fish to market.
0:52:50 > 0:52:55The boat's 40 feet long and there's probably 50 people crammed on here.
0:52:55 > 0:52:57Everybody's week's worth of fish.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00It's just absolute carnage, and there's chickens on here.
0:53:00 > 0:53:07Health And Safety in England would never pass this many people on this boat, absolutely never.
0:53:07 > 0:53:12Fish accounts for 70% of the animal protein consumed in Sierra Leone.
0:53:12 > 0:53:17Local fishermen come to the market in Yagoi to sell their catch.
0:53:17 > 0:53:22So, Ishmael and Kabba are trying to organise something to try and get the fish to shore, but...
0:53:22 > 0:53:25there's no room for anything. There's no room to stand, hardly.
0:53:25 > 0:53:27It is absolute chaos.
0:53:29 > 0:53:34Kabba thinks he's found a buyer for the fish.
0:53:38 > 0:53:40How much will it be?
0:53:40 > 0:53:43We think they're worth 260,000, yes?
0:53:43 > 0:53:45- Yes. 260. - Can't pay that.
0:53:45 > 0:53:48You not pay that? No. You tell how much.
0:53:49 > 0:53:51- 120.- No!
0:53:51 > 0:53:54No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
0:53:54 > 0:54:00No! I've got blisters for these fish. These fish cost me these blisters.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02How much? Nine?
0:54:03 > 0:54:04Well...
0:54:05 > 0:54:06250.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09- It's too much. - Too much?- Yeah.
0:54:09 > 0:54:14Three big men, look. Look. I need to eat.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16What they saying? 190?
0:54:16 > 0:54:18- 180.- 190.- 180.- 190.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20- Yes.- Yes?
0:54:20 > 0:54:21Yeah.
0:54:21 > 0:54:24Yes. She's agreed.
0:54:26 > 0:54:2970, 80. 80? We said 90.
0:54:29 > 0:54:31- Ten more. - We never said 80, we said 90.
0:54:31 > 0:54:3390. OK.
0:54:33 > 0:54:35- Thank you.- Thank you.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37- It's good. - Yes? OK, it's good?
0:54:37 > 0:54:40- Yes.- Good. Happy? - Yeah, happy.- Good, good.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44So the money we have for the fish is...
0:54:44 > 0:54:4730 quid. So they need to split that six ways.
0:54:47 > 0:54:50They split it one each for the fishermen,
0:54:50 > 0:54:55which apparently I'm one of them, so that's three gone.
0:54:55 > 0:54:57There's one for the transport,
0:54:57 > 0:55:00one for the smoking house
0:55:00 > 0:55:05and one for the nets and stuff, so that's six.
0:55:05 > 0:55:09That's a fiver. So I've worked for a fiver for a week.
0:55:09 > 0:55:12The guys have done the same, fiver each for the week.
0:55:12 > 0:55:16It's...a fiver.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20So hard for them. So, so hard.
0:55:20 > 0:55:24Heartbreaking to see what they've gone through and this is just one week.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26This might have been a good week for them.
0:55:26 > 0:55:29It's heartbreaking how hard they work. I'd like to take them on.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31They could work for me any day of the week,
0:55:31 > 0:55:36because these guys just, well, they don't know when they're beaten.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38They'll just carry on and on and on and on
0:55:38 > 0:55:41and, you know... hat off to them.
0:56:06 > 0:56:09Opened my eyes to a whole new culture,
0:56:09 > 0:56:13a whole new understanding of things that are elsewhere in the world.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16How these people struggle in day-to-day life.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19When I'm at home, we just get on the boat and I go to sea and I come home
0:56:19 > 0:56:22and I go to sea and I come home and I don't really think about it,
0:56:22 > 0:56:25but now...I'll be thinking about it a lot.
0:56:27 > 0:56:29They're two amazing guys.
0:56:29 > 0:56:34Everything they get comes from hard work, graft
0:56:34 > 0:56:38and then sometimes even through that hard work and graft they don't get anything.
0:56:41 > 0:56:45I've brought you here to buy you a net.
0:56:45 > 0:56:47- You lost a lot of net to the trawler- Yeah. Yeah.
0:56:47 > 0:56:52I'm buying it, so you know that all trawlermen are not the same, OK?
0:56:52 > 0:56:53Cos I am a trawler man. OK?
0:56:53 > 0:56:57- So happy.- OK?- So happy.- OK, good. - I'm so happy.- OK?
0:56:57 > 0:56:59- You know.- OK? - The community will be happy.
0:56:59 > 0:57:02Yes. Good. OK? Anyway, thanks for looking after me, yeah?
0:57:02 > 0:57:06- Thank you for that. Thanks.- OK? - So happy.- Yes, good.
0:57:08 > 0:57:10They're like two kids in a sweet shop -
0:57:10 > 0:57:15big smiles on their faces, don't know what to spend their money on next.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18- No more angry. - No more angry?
0:57:18 > 0:57:21- No more, no more. - Good, I don't want to see you angry.
0:57:24 > 0:57:25Two fantastic guys.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28I couldn't have wished to be away with anybody else, really.
0:57:28 > 0:57:29Really taken to them.
0:57:29 > 0:57:32They're two good friends I've got, I think,
0:57:32 > 0:57:35so hopefully they feel the same way, but I'm sure they do.
0:57:46 > 0:57:51Next time, a British train driver goes to Peru in South America
0:57:51 > 0:57:55to drive a train in one of the highest places on earth.
0:57:55 > 0:57:59The biggest problem's the view down there. The drop. Ah!
0:57:59 > 0:58:01He'll sample Peruvian culture...
0:58:01 > 0:58:05I don't suppose they do jam on toast here either, do they?
0:58:05 > 0:58:09..before taking his life in his hands with a 2,000 ton train
0:58:09 > 0:58:11down the steepest railway in the world.
0:58:11 > 0:58:15I'm just sort of figuring out which brakes are which.
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