Bari worked on a trawler in the North Atlantic in the late 1970s and early 1980. He says fishing is in his blood.
“All my grandfathers were fishing, they live on fish and die with fishing. That was just life.
“When you are a trawler fisherman in the North Atlantic in the wintertime, you cannot tell people how bad the weather can be, because you have to live it yourself.
“These little ships, 100 years ago, coming all the way up to north Iceland with all this old equipment to try to catch all the fish just to live at that time, that was a hard job.”
Bari turned out to be a distant cousin of Yvette and helped put her in touch with her first cousins.
“I gave him the names and he got in touch and, of course, they thought this is a scam, this can’t be real, nobody knew anything about an Yvette in England. And it’s because my dad never knew about me.
“Since then, I’ve been to Iceland, I’ve met a cousin and I’ve seen where my dad lived.”
Yvette, whose father died in 1978, says the people of Hull and Iceland have a shared history.
“We lost 6,000 men over a couple of hundred years. That’s a lot of men, that’s a lot of families being brought up by their mum.
“It’s a very similar story in Iceland because I found quite a few relatives now who have drowned while they were out fishing, and that’s in small boats, ships, everything.
“So we have the same story, just 2,000 miles apart. It’s all about connections, strange, unknown connections.”
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