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Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

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Re: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

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post #2

I don't understand why he couldn't just get on another ship and leave forever. Worst case you just never go back to that shitty country right?

As he said in the article, it is because he has no intention of abandoning his profession and will resume working, meaning if he had left the ship his career would been ruined.

Re: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

#13
But he is determined. He says he is good at his job and wants nothing more than to pick up where he left off.

Meanwhile HN commenters be moaning every time their scrollbar is hijacked by a link or they have to deal with spaghetti code at work like "I'm so burned out"

Re: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

#14
post #2

I don't understand why he couldn't just get on another ship and leave forever. Worst case you just never go back to that shitty country right?

So... never be able to captain a ship that goes through the SuezCanal?

without a doubt, there's at least one person in egypt, who is permanently barred from sailing so much as a rubber dinghy....

Re: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

#15

Anyone know how the issue was resolved? The article doesn't actually say what changed about his situation to allow him to leave.

I saw another article explaining a local leader of the seafarers guild/union offered to stay in his place.

Re: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

#17
post #8

It is supremely unfair for the court to assign him full responsibility for the ship, but without any power over it. If the court were serious about the situation they should have handed the ship over to him entirely. He could then put the ship up on the market for whomever wanted to buy it or sell it to a scrapping company. If you think this would be unfair to the ships owners this is exactly the point. Force them to…

If you dig into the class of people who own ships, you’ll realize that the government doesn’t want to offend the wealthy class.

Re: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

#18
post #8

It is supremely unfair for the court to assign him full responsibility for the ship, but without any power over it. If the court were serious about the situation they should have handed the ship over to him entirely. He could then put the ship up on the market for whomever wanted to buy it or sell it to a scrapping company. If you think this would be unfair to the ships owners this is exactly the point. Force them to…

I don't know how collateral on a mortgage on a ship this size works. But I am pretty sure even if they handed it to him, he couldn't do anything with it because it would have a Lein on it.

Your point still remains valid though.

Re: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

#19

If he had silently sneaked off the ship, would someone have noticed? How long would it take for anyone to notice that a ship without power and crewed by just 1 person was actually abandoned?

I was wondering about this. My guess (just a guess) was that since he wants to still work in this industry, he was afraid that abandoning the ship would hurt his career? Either that, or he's just an incredibly responsible person.

Re: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

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post #15

Anyone know how the issue was resolved? The article doesn't actually say what changed about his situation to allow him to leave.

I saw another article explaining a local leader of the seafarers guild/union offered to stay in his place.

Holy crap. So not even with a return to judicial sanity, or a sanction against the ship's owners, but with somebody else offering to be the scapegoat?
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