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No information. No way off. 100,000 crew members remain in cruise ship limbo for months
Taylor Dolven May 17, 2020 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article2425652...

Coronavirus cruise ship nightmares: America has abandoned its citizens at sea amid COVID-19
Brian Bailey May 17, 2020 https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-cruise-ship-nightmares...

Crew members like myself have not been treated with dignity. Working for a cruise ship shouldn't mean being sent to a floating prison for an indefinite period of time.

The pandemic grounded cruise ships indefinitely. But bookings are still rolling in.
Hannah Sampson May 15 https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/05/15/pandemic-grounded-cruis...

Lori Cooper got to thinking last week about late autumn in Canada, where it’s cold, and in other parts of the world, where it’s not. So the 61-year-old resident of Pickering, near Toronto, booked a Holland America Line cruise to the Caribbean in November.

Crew change nightmares, for all concerned
Mikhail Voytenko May 17, 2020 http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2020/05/17/crew-change-nightmares-for-al...

In nautical limbo: Where the clusters of cruise ships sit idle with crew still on board
May 13, 2020 https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/PHILIPPINES-CRUISESHIPS/...

What life is like for more than 90,000 cruise workers that have been stuck at sea for two months
Jonathan Levin and K. Oanh Ha May 13, 2020 https://fortune.com/2020/05/12/coronavirus-cruise-workers-stuck-at-sea/

Lauren Carrick and fiance Joe Harrison haven’t had a good night’s sleep in weeks. The two dancers on Celebrity Cruises’s Infinity say being held aboard ships for almost two months has left them emotionally drained.

Steve Cameron 22/04/2020 https://theloadstar.com/an-ode-for-seafarers-stranded-during-the-coronav...

When we go to the shops with all the food on the shelves,
We buy what we want, in sixes and twelves.

Fifteen Seafarers Abandoned on Ship Without Rudder
ITF 05-13-2020

Fifteen seafarers have been abandoned on a Spanish-flagged ship that does not have a rudder. The crewmembers have been left without electricity, lights, wi-fi, refrigeration, GPS, security or safety lights on MV Celanova (IMO 9268394), reports the ITF.

With batteries running low on their mobile phones, the crew, trapped 13 nautical miles out at sea, have been making calls for urgent assistance as the vessel is running dangerously low on fuel and diesel oil and the food, fresh water and medicines.

28,000 sailors can go home
Genivi Factao May 13, 2020 https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/05/13/news/top-stories/28000-sailors-ca...

MORE than 28,000 seafarers stranded in Manila can finally return to their provinces, the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) said.

Another seafarer tests positive for COVID-19 in Negros Occidental
Glazyl Masculino May 12, 2020 https://news.mb.com.ph/2020/05/12/another-seafarer-tests-positive-for-co...

BACOLOD CITY – The province of Negros Occidental has recorded another case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), bringing its total to seven.