Advocates come together to help sailors stuck for months on tugboats in Quebec port
The vice president for the St. Lawrence and East Coast for the Seafarers International Union of Canada, who has been working with the crew, said he’s concerned about the sailors’ working and living conditions.French sailor survives 16 hours at sea trapped under capsized boat
His visits to the ship, the most recent of which was in December, revealed “all sorts of problems,” ranging from a lack of safety and cold-weather equipment to inadequate food, he said. He said the situation began to drag on as crew members had to be switched out and inspections kept revealing more issues to be fixed.“I’m not accustomed to it,” he said.
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