The days and nights were long, all seemed so lifeless. The waves were crashing at the boat, the cries from below the deck, all that painful monotony had saturated my whole body. There was no escape, it was the shocking reality that was so difficult to process, I felt like a captive on the Baltic Sea. The dark sea had swallowed the horizon. Out of nowhere a sea-gull would fly close to the boat, looking for food. Slowly the vessel…..