Inside 55+ days of hell for Baltimore bridge vessel’s crew members forced to stay aboard without cellphones
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The 21 crew members stuck on the ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse are reportedly having a “tough” time after not being able to leave the vessel for 55 days.
The crew — all from India, except for one man from Sri Lanka — has been forced to stay onboard since the March 26 disaster, which brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge and killed six construction workers.
During that time, they have scrambled to find survivors of the accident, had their phones confiscated by FBI agents and endured multiple controlled explosions to break apart a huge chunk of bridge stuck atop the ship’s bow.
“It has been tough for the seafarers, primarily (because) they know that there’s been loss of life,” said Gwee Guo Duan, assistant general secretary of the Singapore Maritime Officers’ Union, one of the unions representing crew members on the Singapore-flagged ship, CNN reports.
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