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Interesting list of seafarers abandoned at sea, usually to to legal or contractual obligations.

This includes the case of Mohammed Aisha[0] who was stuck on board a boat deemed unseaworthy by the Egyptian government and stuck anchored off the Suez Canal. He forced to live aboard the ship alone for 4 years without pay, swimming to shore every few days for supplies. There is an interesting video on his situation[1]

[0] https://www.ilo.org/dyn/seafarers/seafarersbrowse.details?p_...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fddCfXvrw-0