Morale is low for the Dali's crew members, stranded on board by ongoing investigation into tragedy.

Morale is low for the Dali’s crew members, stranded on board by ongoing investigation into tragedy.

  • downpunxxOP
    44•6 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.

      • @FollyDolly
        48•6 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.

        • @grueEnglish
          0•6 months ago

          Well, everything except going on strike and refusing to set sail until the ship was maintained properly, at least…

      • livus
        36•6 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.

        • @grueEnglish
          6•6 months ago

          Am I allowed to blame the moral hazard caused by the corporate diffusion of responsibility?

          • livus
            3•6 months ago

            Definitely. Global shipping is riddled with moral hazard and artificial externalities.

    • @FollyDolly
      11•6 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.

  • @Ballistic_86
    7•6 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??

  • atro_city
    4•6 months ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    1•6 months ago

    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