As news spread this month of the disappearance of fisheries observer Keith Davis aboard a Panamanian-flagged fishing vessel, many of those most familiar with the life of embedded observers on high-seas fishing expeditions were struck with the same uneasy feeling.

“It’s very suspicious, said Hiep Tran, an experienced fisheries observer and close friend of Davis. “There are a million possibilities a lightning bolt could have hit his head but he was very experienced and for this to have happened on flat, calm waters is very strange.

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