Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>'They Sometimes Worry That I’m Dead Already:' Deep-Sea Fishers Fight for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WiFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WiFi</span></a><br>Distant-water <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fishers</span></a> are out on the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a> for up to 10mo at a time, with no contact to the outside world.<br>“Wi-Fi Now for Fishers’ Rights” campaign, has been organizing since 2023, wants to make WiFi access standard in the industry, both to help improve working conditions through union organizing and to allow the workers to have contact with other human beings for more than 2 months per year.<br><a href="https://www.404media.co/they-sometimes-worry-that-im-dead-already-deep-sea-fishers-fight-for-wi-fi/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/they-sometimes-wor</span><span class="invisible">ry-that-im-dead-already-deep-sea-fishers-fight-for-wi-fi/</span></a></p>