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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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according to news articles he SWAM to shore to pick up basic supplies. Not even a small rowing boat or something was made available to him.
In the article it states that he started swimming to shore only after the ship had run aground a few hundred meters from the shore. So the question remains, how did he sustain himself beforehand? Did the ship have years worth of supplies for him on board?
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…
Even if he could manage the ship, a random crew member is highly unlikely to have resources to care for a ship like that... what value is there in assigning him this responsibility? They just punishing someone for the sake of it?
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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.
If you’ve been unjustly imprisoned for several years, you probably don’t worry too much about your career?
"It's enough, you might imagine, to make him think twice about going back to sea.
But he is determined. He says he is good at his job and wants nothing more than to pick up where he left off."
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.
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?
Similarly (and tragically) the Syrian government is not known for its compassion towards its distressed citizens.
[1] https://worldjusticeproject.org/rule-of-law-index/country/Eg...
Why would you write an article like this without a word describing the legal consequences of leaving the ship? What consequence would be worth four years of your life? Edit: a more useful video linked below explains that the authorities confiscated his passport. That would make it difficult to leave. Though I'd probably try anyway after a year of that.
Now that's a sad piece of information I read today.