Dead seafarer kept in freezer

摘要

A seafarer, killed in a shipboard incident on the bulk carrier Kanaris, was stored in the ship's freezer, alongside food and other provisions, as the crew sought help 420 km off the coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Marshall Islands bulk carrier was later detained in Gladstone Australia for breaches of the Maritime Labour Convention. Kanaris was en route from Huanghua in China to Australia on 4 February when a gantry crashed, hitting a 31 -year-old Filipino seafarer on the head. Traumatised crewmates spent seven hours by his side while the first officer tried unsuccessfully to keep him alive.