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.
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.
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.
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
The entire article seems weird. They say “crew” but mean “property” - it’s the ship that is trapped, the crew could be evacuated at any time, but as spoiled in one line:
“They’re part of the ship. They are necessary to keep the ship staffed and operational,” Adm Gilreath said. “They’re the best responders on board the ship themselves.”
And of course:
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.
So again, the reason the crew is stuck is that USA don’t allow them offboard.
Wow damn. I hope they have something to read.
Don’t worry, the FBI confiscated all of their phones but they received other phones and SIMs without data.
Holy shit I thought you were joking!
That’s really sick. If they wanted to illegally immigrate they could have done it anytime before the crash?! Poor bastards.
