Trapped aboard an abandoned cargo ship: one sailor’s four-year ordeal

“The world has been isolating, but I have been abandoned.” Could you survive being stranded on a boat for years? When a ship’s owner runs out of money, crew members often end up unpaid and stuck aboard. Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw tell us the remarkable story of Chief Mate Mohammad Aisha, a young Syrian man 400 miles from home, trapped in an impossible web of maritime democracy and Egyptian law for more than four years.