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120 cruises... There are 100,000 people there

who don't save anyone.

[Crews trapped in 'Jail on the Sea']

Seventy percent of the crew are from Southeast Asia and India. I don't have the will to escape the ship and country.
Refusing to accept U.S. and others for fear of corona, allowing them to leave the country on a chartered plane.
Longer incarceration. Some extreme choices.

About 400 crew members of the large cruise ship Majestiobeders gathered on the deck on the 16th (local time) and put up the phrase, "How many more victims do we need?" The masked crew protested, saying, "Is the CEO sleeping comfortably?" He was angry at the situation where he could not get off the ship for more than two months.

The 2,700-passenger ship arrived at the port of Gulfport, Mississippi, on February 29. All the passengers got off, but the crew members who were preparing for the next voyage remained on the ship. However, the next voyage was canceled in the aftermath of the Corona that spread around the world. The crew was tied to the ship after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention banned all crew unloading on U.S. territory since March to prevent the spread of corona.

A 26-year-old cruise crew member from Bangladesh, Rahman Muzavi, has also been quarantined in his cabin for more than 60 days. The cruise ship Sky Prince, which was launched in early February this year, was docked at a port in Florida on March 17. All 3,000 passengers got off the ship on the same day, but 1,300 crew members from 60 countries, including the Philippines, Indonesia and India, failed to get off.

There are about 120 cruise ships floating in the seas around the world without passengers. 100,000 cruise crew members are trapped in this way.
Half of the world's cruise ships are from Latin America and Panama. This is to avoid tough regulations and taxes. Under international law, each country can refuse to suspend its ships if they are not from their own countries, and the U.S. refuses to leave the ship, citing the risk of corona infection. When more than 700 passengers were infected with corona among passengers who landed at cruise diamond princesses that docked in Japan in January, not only the U.S. but also countries are banning cruise ships from docking.

As Corona became more and more widespread, the CDC extended its cruise ban to the end of July. It also imposed a ban on the use of hotels and passenger planes after a flight attendant disembarked. Even if the crew gets a tricky corona test and gets off the cruise, the only way to return to their homeland is to use a chartered plane. Flight attendants who receive about $500 (about 620,000 won) a week and remit money to their home countries cannot afford such a large sum of money. For the past two months when Cruise has not been operating, he hasn't even been paid this week. Cruise companies are not actively participating for crew members who sign contracts to board every four to six months. The Miami Herald said the crew's departure was further delayed because the shipping company said it would not be able to bear the cost of preparing chartered flights.

Brazilian DJ Kaiu Saudanha, who boarded the cruise celebrity Infinity in March, is suffering from nightmares and panic disorder. After he boarded, he was soon banned from sailing to Corona, and the ship became a ghost ship with lights off, but has not been able to get off for nearly two months. The company ordered the crew from Brazil to change the cruise three times, saying they would bring together the crew members from Brazil to reduce the cost of repatriation of employees. The plan is to send a Brazilian on a chartered plane at once. Saudanha told CNN, "We're being treated like a pack."

Four crew members have made a series of extreme choices over the past two weeks as unwanted confinement has been prolonged. On the 2nd, a 26-year-old Polish engineer who had been on a cruise docked in Pyrias, Greece, for more than two months threw himself from the deck, and on the 10th, a Chinese crew member from a cruise off Miami, USA, threw himself from the cabin.

He was found dead.

According to the New York Times, 40 percent of cruise crew members around the world are Filipino. Thirty percent are from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh. Their country has not been able to protect them either. On the 3rd of last month, the Philippine government said it is working closely with the authorities to ensure the health and safe repatriation of the Philippine-flagged cruise crew. However, no further action has been taken.


Source: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/05/21/2020052100205.html..