I was at the Christmas Ball of the Navy officer candidate school when the chaplain suddenly turned up to tell me that my father was missing. Dad was the captain of an oil tanker that had come under rocket attack.
We tell the forgotten story of merchant seamen from all over the world who fell victim to the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s.
We travel to Poland, The Philippines and other countries in search of the truth.
Did shipping companies sacrifice their employees for profits in the millions?
The Iran-Iraq war ended almost thirty years ago - except in the minds of a large group of seamen. Will I ever get to know what happened to my dad?