Juliette Lamont

We hadn't anticipated it would happen quite so quickly.

They come up to the side of the boat.

We put it on autopilot and just basically put the motor on, you know, like floor depth.

So we're going eight nautical miles on autopilot, refused to stop the boat.

And then so they opened fire above our heads.

And so we knew that they meant business.

There was seven of us on the boat and we discussed what the red line would be when we would acquiesce to the IOF's threats.

And, yeah, shooting above our heads was definitely a red line.

So that's when we decided, okay, they mean business.

And so what did you do?

Okay, well, they boarded the boat.

We refused to tell them who the captain is.

That's what we do in our training because the captain normally is tortured and is met with more violence because they want to get information out of them.

I think maybe we were a little bit stubborn.

We didn't stop the boat for a while.

We refused to pull down the sails.

But, yeah, then what happened?

Yeah, I think that was a kind of collective feeling.

We decided that we'd do it with eye contact.

And one of our Malaysian delegates who was on the boat gave the kind of, you know, the nod of like, I think we should probably toe the line now.