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Houthi attack on cargo ship kills 3 mariners, European naval force says
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Unfortunately, I don't think ship crew (other than the captain and navigator) get much of a choice in where the ship goes.
Do you suppose they didn't know what the job was until they got out to sea?
I think they usually don't have visas to enter countries they're docking at, so they can't really elect to leave the ship
So the scenario here is that they live in country A, make some delivery to country B, and over the course of or just after that delivery they get an assignment to deliver something else to country C, such that they had no idea they'd be going there when they were in country A? I admit that I don't know how the logistics work here.
generally you sign on to a company, the company assigns you to a ship and you crew it for ~6-10 months usually, wherever it goes
a lot of crew are from the Philippines, as was the case with this ship
And the shipping isn't all mapped out ship-by-ship that far in advance, so they likely found out that they'd be going in these waters after they had been on assignment and outside of e.g. the Philippines for some time? Is that right?
Well, I suppose either way my stance is that it's mainly the company's fault for endangering the crew, since it would be irresponsible for Houthis to allow human shield tactics to perpetuate the genocide.
pretty much, yeah
ultimately the responsibility lies with the captain, he needlessly endangered the crew by refusing to comply with the Houthis' orders