Cargo vessel spent 6 months with captain’s corpse in stroll-in freezer, reports CCNL.
It’s a macabre affair!
In April, the captain of a cargo ship, 68-year-old Dan Sandu from Romania, handed away.
Crewmates needed to resort to stuffing his physique into the ship’s walk-in freezer, The Wall Road Journal studies, however what they didn’t anticipate was that Sandu’s physique would stay in there for the following six months — with an astonishing 13 nations refusing to maintain the physique.
“All we wished was to get our father dwelling,” his son Andrei advised the newspaper. “How can this occur in 2021?”
Staving Off An infection
The largest motive why Sandu’s physique by no means made it to the mainland: COVID-19. Many governments nonetheless don’t enable the offloading of a crew member that handed away on account of fears that the physique might nonetheless be infectious.
In actual fact, our bodies are nonetheless crusing the seas on board ships for 1000’s of miles, in line with the WSJ, with crews hoping of discovering a house for them.
“The miserable factor about that is that deceased or useless folks don’t have any rights in any way,” Jason Chuah, a professor of maritime regulation at London’s Metropolis College, advised the paper. “It’s a big drawback and displays so poorly on our widespread humanity.”
In October, Sandu’s physique lastly made it to its closing resting place in a small Romanian village — half a 12 months after his dying.
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Source: CCNL
