For cargo ship crew, a lonely and risky life
Every day, they come and go, unheralded, required, ignored: 100,000 or so working ships traveling the seas, carrying 90% of world trade. Our goods, necessities, fripperies: all still come by ship, although most people think of the sea as something to be flown over, and though the average consumer pays seafarers no mind, until they arrive in our newspaper or TV headlines as casualties, such as the 33 men of El Faro, presumed lost near the Bahamas when Hurricane Joaquin swept by....
Published By: CNN National - Tuesday, 6 October, 2015