The ones at risk were the fishermen. They usually travel beyond 200 to 500 nautical miles into the sea because that is the patch where they get the best fish. This means they are in the sea for days and sometimes even weeks on end. After Ockhi struck, the Indian Coast Guard ventured only till 60 nautical miles. This got the families of eight fishing villages in Kanyakumari worked up because they felt their men had been left to die or been written off as dead in the high seas.