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Crew stuck on Baltimore ship, seven weeks after bridge collapse (www.bbc.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The crew, made up of 20 Indians and a Sri Lankan national, has been unable to disembark because of visa restrictions, a lack of required shore passes and parallel ongoing investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FBI.

Red tape and racism. I suspect that if they were say Dutch, accommodations would be made somehow.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nope.

This happens all the time. There have been people stuck on boats for months and even years. Generally they are waiting on something to resolve and the ship's accommodation is no worse than a local motel and facilities no less than the local town. What's needed is delivered.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yea it's funny to see all the projection over 'stuck'.

These are Mariners who expect to be onboard for a long time, stuck at sea, as it were.

Mostly nothing to see at sea. Here they have a front row seat to rather interesting activities.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately no, this shit happens all over the world, even not in "the west".

It's dumb everywhere. Put a fucking gpa boot on em if you need to, just let em off the boat