Kochi: For 44-year-old Nissar hailing from Kollam, the sea was a passion, but after enduring untold miseries during the nine-day escape voyage of 3,000 miles on a fishing boat along with eight others, he has vowed that he will not hit the sea again.

Nissar who was cleared by the emigration officials, said he has called time on his fishing career. "It was a journey that began almost 10 days back from Yemen and we didn't in our wildest dreams feel that we would be able to reach here, but we did and I have decided, to never again go fishing, which has been my profession."