I wanted to find some more stories about people who fled vietnam in the late 70s, early 80s.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58126540-pirates-in-the-gulf-of-siam
Found this book, and now rethinking if I actually want to know.
I learned that on the last fateful voyage of the marine electric one of the crew got left behind at port. But the pilot boat to pick up the crew to help them get out of the bay gave him a ride to his ship so he wouldn't get fired.