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.

This is absolutely nightmarish to be stuck at your job like this.

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??

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.

On Monday, the crew remained on board even as authorities used small explosive charges to deliberately “cut” an expanse of the bridge lying on the ship’s bow.

Would they treat Europeans like this? This is only happening because they’re brown.

This also happened with the crew of the Ever Given for months, after it was dislodged from the Suez Canal: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/09/ever-given-suez-crew-stuck-shipping/

I know it wouldn’t be fun to actually experience but I’ve always thought it would be fun to be stranded somewhere on a boat