Morale is low for the Dali's crew members, stranded on board by ongoing investigation into tragedy.
This is absolutely nightmarish to be stuck at your job like this.
Still trapped on Baltimore ship, months after bridge collapse
Submitted 5 months ago by downpunxx@fedia.io to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69011124
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IceHouse@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
FollyDolly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I didn’t even think about that! If someone tried to keep me at work for months I’d be crawling through the ventilation system Bruce Willas Diehard style to escape.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Surely get paid
Ballistic_86@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I shared this news with my mother, she had already known and understood the reasoning behind keeping the crew aboard. Shocking to be honest. Like, nobody can let them back on shore and give them a few hotel rooms? Let’s just have controlled explosions around foreign nationals because rules??
senkora@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
This also happened with the crew of the Ever Given for months, after it was dislodged from the Suez Canal: foreignpolicy.com/…/ever-given-suez-crew-stuck-sh…
downpunxx@fedia.io 5 months ago
Fascinating side of this story I hadn't even thought of until reading this.
I can't believe the FBI confiscated these poor bastards call phones, haven't already copied all the requisite logs and data to return them, and didn't immediately set them up with temporary ones, or allow them to retrieve their contact information, or let them onto shore, or even another boat, or anything.
These poor fuckers have been trapped on that ship for months now, and made to stay onboard while the Coast Guard literally blows off explosives and tons of steel from it's bow.
This is unbelievable (though completely believable). I'm gobsmacked.
Hope these guys are getting paid for every second they spend on the ship, and every second they spend until they are once again safely home.
MrPibb@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
FollyDolly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As far as I know, the crew did everything correctly, including alerting authorities to shut down traffic to the bridge. The one at fault here is the owner of the ship, who was deliberately forgoing repairs to squeeze out as much profit as possible.
livus@kbin.social 5 months ago
Bit of a weird take. The ship had faulty equipment and the crew did what it could to try to avert the disaster.
The ship's owners are who you should blame.
taanegl@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Excuse me, wtf? You’re not “discounting”, but indirectly condemning the whole crew when obviously it was the navigator and captain responsible for the negligence? Not only that, but almost indirectly affirming that they all deserve to be there?
“Oh I’m sorry, but this is ancient Egypt and you must be buried with the pharaoh.”
Prick. And no, don’t come at me with “but those 6 people who died”, because that justifies nothing.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Innocent until proven guilty