If I'm a company that gets my ships flagged by countries with few if any hiring regulations and my crew is made up of a random assortment of guys from impoverished Third World countries, then you bet I'm going to tout my crew's diversity!
“If I’m a company that gets my ships flagged by countries with few if any hiring regulations and my crew is made up of a random assortment of guys from impoverished Third World countries, then you bet I’m going to tout my crew’s diversity!
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I have a neighbor who spend 10 years in the Merchant Marines and his stories are always about a rag-tag collection of functional to barely functional 3rd world crew getting just enough done to make it to the next port. And then there’d be a 50% turnover with new language barriers.