Twenty Thousand Seafarers Are Trapped in the Gulf Right Now. The UN Says There Is No Precedent Since the Second World War.
Between twenty and thirty thousand seafarers are aboard two to three thousand stranded merchant vessels in the Gulf today. Most are Indian nationals. Drinking water is running out. At least one onboard death has been attributed to medevac failure. Today two Indian flagged ships were fired on in the same waterway. A functioning chokepoint authority would treat their welfare as standing operations, not as a humanitarian footnote.