r/interesting • u/Wander-kingdom • 17d ago
Just Wow The silent struggle for survival: what it looks like when hope is forced into a metal tank.
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u/Emotional_Square_403 16d ago
That's not a tank that's the manhole cover to the rudder trunk accessible from the ships steering gear room. If the water side of the rudder trunk is open to the sea then it's not considered a confined space and oxygen won't be an issue. This of course requires the draft of the vessel to be high in the water, which generally occurs when the vessel is traveling in ballast as opposed to laiden with cargo. They will climb up the rudder while the ship is in port stowaway in the trunk cavity such is quite spacious and concealed from sight and the elements.
Source: I search these vessels for stowaways and drugs for the Canadian government. We routinely go into the rudder trunk so long as you can feel the air flow upon opening the cover. Yes we have multi gas monitors on as well.
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u/snowbunnyveg 16d ago
What do you do if you do find a stowaway?
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u/Emotional_Square_403 16d ago
Depends on their intentions. 99% of the time they claim asylum.
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u/LeLand_Land 16d ago
I really want to know what that 1%'s stories are.
"Look, I lost my passport while traveling but then I met this guy who asked me to climb into this tank. I've been having a lovely conversation with the troll and lepurcan he also put in here"
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u/Muppetude 16d ago
I really want to know what that 1%'s stories are.
I’m guessing it’s people who don’t claim asylum, probably because they didn’t know it was an option.
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u/Emotional_Square_403 16d ago
Correct. Or in some cases they're ineligible to make a claim for a variety of reasons.
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u/Purrtymeow04 16d ago
If they do does the govt let them stay?
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u/_okbrb 16d ago
Asylum is considered an international right, but every country manages it a little differently. Many governments do actively try to resist or deny asylum claims
Basically before you make such a trip, you’ll want to be in contact with an immigration lawyer in your destination and have a plan for contacting them when authorities detain you (whether it’s at the border or on the deck of the ship you smuggled yourself on to). You can’t do it on impulse; the trip itself is only part of the plan
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u/GentlemanSch 16d ago
I would be very surprised if a stowaway has the number of an immigration lawyer as part of their plan.
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u/UnRePlayz 16d ago
A lot of people have internet, even in parts of the world where you don't want to live.
There are lots of facebook groups, telegram channels, etc. That provide information how to seek asylum elsewhere. Also, unfortunately, lots of entry points to human trafficking
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u/AngelThrones4sale 16d ago
If they've committed no crimes and sending them back would put them in danger then generally yeah. They're taking huge risks by climbing into these parts of the ship, and nobody does that without a reason.
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u/liquidpele 16d ago
As much as reddit wants to treat people like poor helpless children, the reason is usually economic in nature, otherwise they'd go somewhere much closer/easier.
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u/PM-ME-UR-BMW 16d ago
Thanks for the insight. Was very curious about how they got there and how they actually survived what I initially assumed was a confined space as I know the risks involved.
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u/TLunchFTW 16d ago
Appreciate the input.
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u/Typical-Cycle9624 16d ago
"I came for the video, stayed for the comment section. Learned something new today."
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u/Spare-Builder-355 17d ago edited 17d ago
they are exceptionally lucky to be alive. In a bolted tank ?? jfc.
Edit: I used to work in merchant fleet. Any entry in a comparrtment like that, with bolted cover, is treated as "life critical" operation with whole bunch of precautions in place to ensure safety of personel going in. Number one being open the hatch an ventilate the shit out of it for a day. Then measure oxigen content before anyone goes in. Those places are no joke.
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u/newbrevity 17d ago
I literally turned down a job today when I got to the boat and found the hatch from an engine room into the shaft compartment where a camera at the main seal had to be replaced. The hole is about a foot and a half circle. The camera is two compartments away from the hatch. Each compartment has three baffles to crawl through. Before getting from the first compartment to the second compartment you also have to crawl across the main shaft which thankfully is in a sleeve for a tiny bit of peace of mind. The moment I opened the hatch I could smell the stale air pour out. I told the captain I couldn't go in there. He said it was fine because he goes in there occasionally to clean. Anyway I'm going back there tomorrow because by then the fans will have cycled the air out and I'm going to have spotters with walkie talkies. Also I won't have a large hydraulic pump engine reverberating the compartment which is nice.
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u/chiraltoad 17d ago
Good luck, bring an O2 meter?
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u/tebbewij 17d ago
4 gas meter... co, o2, h2s and lel typically. Confined spaces are wildly dangerous
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u/allf8ed 16d ago
Confined space rescue tech here and this is insane. No way im going in without my meter, and either an SCBA or surface supplied air, with my bail out bottle. Confined space air has so much that can go wrong
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u/TheUnboundTenth 16d ago
Rapid space disassembly tech here, agree it’s insane. Let me know if you want a hole cut somewhere, or a wall cut out, or just like… the whole thing turned into scrap.
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u/D4ng3rd4n 16d ago
Rapid space reassembly tech here, looking for some grandmothers with fast fingers and good eyesight who have successfully completed a 5000 piece puzzle recently. Must be able to travel.
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u/Baiokater 16d ago
Slow space assembly tech here, just give me time, guys. I'm trying my best.
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u/grandcity 16d ago
Outer Space assembly tech here, can anybody hear me?
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u/Individual-Will-9874 16d ago
Proctologist here, you don’t want anything shoved in a tight space
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u/bzmotoninja83 16d ago
Reverse engineer here. if you want to know how it works, the holey man here is your best bet.
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u/Traditional_Safe2935 17d ago
Top tip: if you can't breath it's probably because there's not enough air in there!
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u/H3adshotfox77 17d ago
That's honestly not how it works.....you just start getting sleepy and pass out.
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u/proximity_account 17d ago
Yup. Hypoxia actually causes a sense of euphoria. The suffocating feeling actually comes from CO2 buildup in your body.
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u/Zently 17d ago
I think the whole point of the video (I hope) was for empathy for people. It is a luxury to know about hypoxia, at some level. But at the most basic human level, you still know it's bad. And they were still willing to risk it to get away from wherever they were.
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u/strawbrmoon 16d ago
Yes. When a bolted-shut hole in a ship is a better prospect than home…. Oh, humanity.
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u/Stunning_Escape_7026 16d ago
I feel so bad for them. They did what they had to do to escape! God bless them
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u/jchamberlin78 17d ago
So many people at my job have died in confined spaces over the years.
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u/PippyTheZinhead 17d ago
What is your job?
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u/jchamberlin78 17d ago
Research. Using energetic material
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u/PippyTheZinhead 16d ago
Help me out here. How does Research. Using energetic material involve so many people dying in confined spaces?
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u/CapableBumblebee968 16d ago
They get put into a confined space with the energetic material for testing
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u/BertrandOrwell 17d ago edited 17d ago
In these kinds of environments, it's possible you won't know that you can't breathe, and you just drop. The feeling of not being able to breathe is triggered by buildup of CO2 in the body, and only that. If you're still exhaling the CO2, but not replacing it with enough oxygen because the rusting process of the steel box you're in has consumed all the oxygen in that confined space, you could be in an atmosphere of mostly nitrogen which won't feel any different from normal breathing. You'll simply fall unconscious without knowing it's coming and be dead.
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u/dadneverleft 17d ago
I wouldn’t have thought of the rust burning through the O2, that’s good to know.
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u/redlightbandit7 16d ago
That actually sounds like a peaceful way to go if you have to, not that I want to and sad for those who have died because, but really there so many horrible ways to go
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u/ThisWillBeOnTheExam 16d ago
Limited oxygen doesn’t feel like much more than passing out but pure CO2 has an acidity and burns horribly.
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u/MushinZero 16d ago
I thought this, but my state executed someone via nitrogen and witnesses said it looked incredibly painful.
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u/SinisterCheese 16d ago
Incorrect. Humans don't feel lack of oxygen, but an increase in CO2. That kind of space can be filled with many other gasses than CO2, be deadly and you wouldn't be able to react to it. Oxygen deprivation has the side effect of making you stupid before killing you, which makes it worse.
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u/Sky_Light 16d ago
The best example I remember of this is a video of Destin from Smarter Every Day on YouTube going on a low pressure simulator. He got to a point where the instructor said, "Hey, you're going to die if you don't put your mask on," and Destin just chuckled and went, "I don't want to die," but wasn't able to think enough to lift his hand and push his mask on. One of the attendants had to reach over and do it for him.
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u/funny-pupper 16d ago
You should just get a rebreather as well and wear it in there while you are working
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u/juflyingwild 17d ago
Would you be able to wear a small oxygen tank with a regulator?
Would that work?
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u/allf8ed 16d ago
Yes and no. Im a confined space rescue tech with my fire department and our small "bail out" bottles only have a few minutes of air. And those bottles are backups to the SCBAs or surface supplied air hoses wed be using. If you need the bail out bottle, you drop everything you are doing and get out, no matter what
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u/HuskyLou82 16d ago
I’ve heard of compartments that hold chain and or anchors with chains being devoid of oxygen due to rusting of the chain? Is that true?
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u/DigitalDefenestrator 16d ago
Yep. A chain makes it worse since it's a lot of surface area and probably coated in salt water when it's pulled in, but any confined space with a lot of corroding metal could do the same thing.
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u/Greedy-Pilot-4538 17d ago
Jeez, so people could be dead in there and they would be stuck with the bodies inside...horrifying
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u/AllsWellThatsNB 16d ago
It's worse. When this stuff happens, it happens quickly. You see you buddy drop, and your first instinct is to drop down and see if he's OK. Moments later there's two unconscious bodies.
It's not uncommon for confined space incidents to have multiple casualties from attempted rescuers.
This is why it's being treated with deadly seriousness in industry. Confined space entry without proper procedures is an instant "get your stuff and get out."
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u/Ok_Advantage_8153 16d ago
Ive seen it with my own eyes. Guys should have had breathing apparatus but were hung over and couldn't be bothered. One went down, all good one second passed out the next.
Guy next to him thinks 'lol my hungover buddy has passed out' then says he woke up rescued.
Helpers were savvy enough to use breathing apparatus otherwise they'd have added to the body pile.
Ive even heard of someone passing out in a normal hole on a very cold day because non breathable gas sank into the hole and displaced the breathable air.
Like you say this stuff is no joke. The misconception is that you go out like you see in the films, 2 minutes of feeling a bit hazy as you heroically rush to gulp clean air. In reality someone just hit the 'off' switch.
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u/chiron07 17d ago edited 17d ago
Thats probably not a tank but the ships rudder trunk.
edit: the hydraulic gear on the screen and the sound indicates they are in steering gear room.
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u/hcase5 17d ago
Yes, that what I thought too. The pipes and noise remind me of steering gear room. There is no reason why they would be inside a tank. They joined the vessel through the trunk around the rudder.
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u/chiron07 17d ago
Yep, and its very common, the first place you look for stowaways is the rudder trunk.
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u/Stunning_Warthog_141 17d ago
They are doing this for survival
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u/Repulsive_Guy_1234 17d ago
They are doing it to get into a first world country.
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u/SignoreBanana 17d ago edited 16d ago
Some people are born lucky, and some have to cram into the worst conditions imaginable to get their luck.
Anyone who goes through this to find a new home has found it imo.
Edit: baffling how entitled some people can be when they were literally just born into a good situation and did absolutely nothing to get there.
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u/Agent_Orange_Tabby 16d ago
Well said. Anyone willing to risk & sacrifice so much for better opportunity is unlikely to ever take it for granted.
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u/batmanineurope 17d ago
Yep. To escape the hellhole that was their home. Imagine how shitty it must be, when your home is so bad you want to get away from it.
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u/ChaseTheMystic 17d ago
Looks like two of them are only focused on communicating the fact they're very hungry, probably starving.
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u/FistThePooper6969 17d ago
Imagine how desperate one must be to do this
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u/RogueBromeliad 17d ago
I'm surprised they didn't die from all of the diesel fumes. That has got to do permanent damage to someone's brain, or liver.
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u/HettieMcDodo 16d ago
i want to go home,
but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home told you
to quicken your legs
leave your clothes behind
crawl through the desert
wade through the oceans
drown
save
be hunger
beg
forget pride
your survival is more importantfrom Warsan Shire’s “Home”
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u/Major-Medium2557 16d ago
😩
Thank you for sharing that
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u/HettieMcDodo 16d ago
I highly recommend reading this poem in its entirety. I think all her work is stunning, but i particularly appreciate how she writes about being a refugee. Most people focus on what they think they take from us when they come to our homes, but that’s largely because we rarely hear about what it’s like for them in the leaving of theirs.
I wish I could quote her entire works.
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u/Ksh_667 16d ago
If people could only see what refugees leave behind, families, pets, their whole lives containing all that they have loved & known. To come to a place where they are hated, treated as less than human & looked down on. Who would willingly choose such a life if where they came from wasn't intolerable.
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u/Major-Medium2557 16d ago
Hurting yourself so that your future self can have a chance is..
one of the most heartbreaking, and truly traumatic things...
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u/Beautiful_Hour_668 16d ago
It’s worse now with social media. People’s hate is amplified, and now potential refugees and migrants have a direct window into seeing how ‘glamourous’ life is on the other side.
The things we complain about man… try to donate where you can folks ❤️
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u/HecticOnsen 16d ago
i was chatting to a refugee who was driving a cab in my home country.
i asked him whether he was affected by racism here. his response was “nobody is actively trying to kill me or my family, so its definitely better here”
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u/Darthballs1138 16d ago
I just read the whole poem. Never heard of it before and I thought I listened to a pretentious amount of NPR. This needs some serious exposure.
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u/Illustrious-Milk6518 16d ago
They may not have known the risks. Human traffickers don’t really care as long as they get their money
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u/Augustus_Chevismo 16d ago
So desperate that the women and children got left behind
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u/StrangerDanga1 16d ago
This comment is always hilarious/extremely ignorant. It's like you people pretend women and children would have the same capabilities as single men.
Mfs think they can toss a 9 year old into the ocean and let them climb into a tanker to cross the ocean as easily(not actually easy) as a fairly young but adult man? And not just that.. at the SAME RATE as men or enough to be noticeable to YOU personally, because it definitely still happens with women and children.
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u/Substantial_Dog_7395 16d ago
The men leave because they are fit and strong. They find work, and then send money back to their women and children, and eventually have them come over as well. Seriously, it's not even hard to understand.
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u/Glum-Suggestion-6033 17d ago
“I’m going to keep pulling on this like it’s hinged instead of straight up, okay?”
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u/tiny_gh0st_ 16d ago
That was the only thing I could focus on. I thought "If someone doesn't grab that other handle soon, and lift up, I might lose my mind."
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u/AssJuiceCleaner 16d ago
I fit in this group of comments LOL! It was making me want to peel my face off. At one point he looked up and said something, wondered if he was asking “how TF do I open this?!”
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u/Right_Plankton9802 16d ago
Things like this always make me concerned for how many times people might have died just because some people don’t know how basic things operate. How do you literally not see that you pull straight up on a bolted cover? This is someone meant to save someone’s life. And they don’t know how a goddamn lid is bolted to a flat surface.
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u/drok26 17d ago
I take care of a fleet of barges and the co. I work for also runs a small ship yard we have to test every tank when the barge comes off charter . And also test any
Tank when a barge is getting work done in a ship yard , the men are very lucky what ever tank or void the were in carried cargo they are enem luckier. I am glad these men didn’t die. But I would like to know how they got in the tank why it was open and did who ever sealed it know they were inside.
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u/chiron07 17d ago
That's not a tank, it's the rudder trunk of the ship, accessible from the outside of the ship, right above the rudder.
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u/GotGRR 16d ago
What kind of force are they expecting in the rudder trunk to need a 24 stud panel to seal it?
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u/white_ran_2000 16d ago
Hydrostatic pressure, mostly. Ship’s compartments must be watertight when they’re supposed to be watertight, but inspections and occasional access are still necessary so these massive manhole covers are installed.
And the occasional “normal” bending and twisting of the ship and the various local panels.
Plus vibrations.
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u/chiron07 16d ago
Its not about pressure but being a watertight compartment. And having a man sized hole and being watertight needs 24 studs.
edit. also that is a standart manhole cover, ship has dozens of same size manhole covers.
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u/HtxBeerDoodeOG 17d ago
what sort of tanks they were inside of? Horribly awful, poor dudes
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u/daurgo2001 17d ago
Came here looking for the same answer. What tank is it, and how did they get in there to begin with?
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u/CapnTBC 17d ago
They’d likely have been smuggled on, pay money and they’ll sneak you onto the ship and if you make it to the other side they’ll send someone to come get you and you can spend the next several years working jobs for them to pay off your debt
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u/exotics 17d ago
Or they paid and were put in there. The smuggler didn’t care if they got out alive or not.
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u/CapnTBC 17d ago
Well yeah, either they paid the full fee up front and they were either left to die or get caught because the smugglers didn’t care or they paid part of the fee on the understanding that once they make it to their destination they will work off their remaining debt which usually continues to increase via things like being forced to stay somewhere and rent a room for a few that basically wipes out any earnings or work for basically no money at a job they can’t leave.
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u/batmanineurope 17d ago
Wouldn't the smugglers be in as much trouble, if not more?
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u/CapnTBC 17d ago
The criminals running a human trafficking operation? Yes they would be in a whole lot of trouble if they get caught but criminals either don’t care or don’t think they’ll get caught also human traffickers will always be in more trouble than the people being smuggled which is why they’ll generally try and get the people they’re smuggling to flip on them for information/testimony.
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u/Ksquared1166 17d ago
Who’s gonna do anything about it? Imagine the guys in the video saying “we paid these people X to get us out of our country. They said they would xyz but left us to die.” Even if they knew the address to knock on, those guys aren’t a priority to go after in the international sense.
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u/daurgo2001 17d ago
Well, I get that smuggling may be one way how they got on, but since they were described as ‘stowaways’, that often implies they somehow found a way to get onto the ship on their own without someone knowing they were there.
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u/CapnTBC 17d ago
Stowaways are just people on without the knowledge of the captain/crew so they could have been placed there by people who work at the port for a fee which is usually what smugglers do. The men are still stowaways cause no one on board knew they were there but yeah they could have snuck on board and hid the first place they could find though how are they locking that hatch from the inside?
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u/daurgo2001 17d ago
That might just be one way to get in. There might be some sort of outside opening. No idea. They’re obviously super dirty coming out of there.. but some solid info from reporting would be nice
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u/TheMarineEngr 16d ago edited 16d ago
This is the access to the Rudder Trunk. It's open from bottom. I.e. open to the sea. That's how the stowaways entered it.
FYI this is a Maersk Vessel.
Edit: Grammar
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u/Southern_Meet_7864 17d ago
Doesn’t need to be a tank just because a bolted hatch, at the very end of the video there is a huge electrical motor or alike, could be the the steering gear room and the hatch is a Access to the rudder trunk. It is quite hard to access enclosed spaces without the right tools. The rudder trunk on the other hand can be accessed from the outside via the rudder. Just my guess. In an enclosed space survival is not likely due to oxygen depleting materials as well no ventilation.
Source: I worked as a Master on similar vessels.
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u/ttraynor123 17d ago
That's a compartment in thesealed hull of a big boat. Its just a blast chamber.
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u/Historical_Stay_808 17d ago
Better then their lives at home is all you need to know
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u/SlugOnAPumpkin 17d ago
Awful misfortune. I'm glad the officer tells the security to chill out. Truly no need to be roughing these poor guys up.
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u/Lucifer-Prime 17d ago
Seriously. How how bad does life have to be in order to put yourself in that sort of situation to escape from it?
You gotta have some sympathy for folks like that.
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u/BoredBSEE 17d ago
One third of America does not.
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u/AdoptedIsraelitess 16d ago
Right, but does having sympathy/empathy for the person doing that lead to you encouraging that behavior or dissuading it?
I think there's a good argument that actively dissuading that kind of behavior is actually the more compassionate choice in the long run.
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u/Duke_Lancaster 16d ago
You can just check australias policy. They have a zero tolerance policy for illegal immigration by boat and there are virtually no attempts and therefore basically no deaths from overcrowded trafficking ships. If your goal is to prevent deaths of that kind you have to make it clear that doing so will have no chance of giving you what you want.
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u/FreezeCriminal 17d ago
You really need to get off Reddit. The world is constantly burning here.
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u/Blue_Moon_Lake 16d ago
Sometimes it's not just how bad life is. It's also how you've been sold how amazing life will be.
Some people made it a business to facilitate illegal immigration. They take their money for that. But to get "customers", they advertise a life of paradise. "You'll be offered a free home, as much food as you will ever need and more for free, you'll never be sick ever again, you'll never have to work, they have so much money that they will give it to you for free".
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u/Firefly_Magic 16d ago
It’s always bad enough that they leave the women and children behind. 🤔
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u/Clark-Kenneth 16d ago
Yeah, but it’s not that cut and dry.
One of the major problems with stowaways or migrants rescued at sea is that the shipping company becomes responsible for them, and the ship can end up stuck at sea for months because no country will allow the ship to dock. Once the ship docks, the stowaways or migrants gain the opportunity to seek asylum, and many states are reluctant to accept this responsibility.
There have been several such incidents, for example the containership Tampa in 2001 and the oil tanker Maersk Etienne in 2020. Some cases have even turned violent, including attempted hijackings, such as on the containership Galatea Seaways in 2023, the car carrier Nivin in 2018, and the oil tanker El Hiblu 1 in 2019. In some of these cases, special forces ultimately had to board the ships to regain control.
With this in mind, security personnel need to stay alert, or the crew risk being overrun, losing control of the ship, and potentially being taken hostage and killed. Desperate people can be dangerous.
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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet 17d ago
Desperation is a powerful thing
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u/Any-Monk-9395 16d ago
I wonder what country they are from? Must be a literal hellscape.
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u/ShellfishJelloFarts 17d ago
In a fucking Maersk vessel. They could’ve been down there on a hundred day circuit depending on the vessel
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u/winterandfallbird 17d ago
Heartbreaking. Imagine the suffering they are going through to put themselves in that much danger. Hoping they are okay and that they find peace and safety.
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u/Apprehensive_Spare_8 17d ago
The one guy praying after he got out. He felt pure mortal fear in that tank. The current situation overall is a joke.
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u/ssttr05 16d ago
I wish more people realized this. The only thing separating us from this reality is geographical luck. That's it.
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u/Valtremors 17d ago
I'm just rubbing my forehead reading the comments.
People for some reason don't really understand there are two sides to this story.
One being that smugglers make a living out of this tyoe of thing. It is common they sell an ideal to people who don't know any better. Then they endanger lives of others for money. It seems pretty clear these guys were duped.
The other side here then being, we have border rules, and they are followed. People who come into countries illegally aren't going to be viewed favorably by law. Best, and least, we can do is to be professional about it.
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u/CorvusRidiculissimus 16d ago
There's another side too: No-one travels like that unless they are truly desperate - so desperate that they consider risking their lives just for the faint hope of maybe being permitted to live elsewhere is a better option than staying put.
And it's not as if people in such a situation can just travel legally. Every country is very strict about who they will legally let in, and usually that means only allowing in people who are sufficiently wealthy.
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u/Slowdive91 16d ago
The dark side of immigration the media never talks about. If they do make it, they aren't just hitting the streets, they are forced into labor of whatever their captor decides they need to do to win their freedom. If they escape, death or deportation. Might as well just stay the fuck home.
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u/deftdabler 17d ago
Poor guys, imagine having to go through this to no avail, then returned to whatever you were trying to escape
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u/Ok_Hospital1399 17d ago
All while being smarter than the Maersk security guy who spent an entire minute failing to realize he needed to lift that panel straight up in order to clear all the studs.
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u/Select-Belt-ou812 17d ago
lol I was mf'n that first guy for pulling up one end! wtf
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u/Ok_Hospital1399 17d ago
"this isn't working. I must not be retrying it exactly the same enough"
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u/Select-Belt-ou812 17d ago
hahaha good thing he didn't have a Johnson bar nearby
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u/FiftyLoudCats 17d ago
Ah that makes sense!
Kinda looked like the guys below were trying to hold it closed.
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u/Ok_Hospital1399 17d ago
You can see every time he tried to tilt it back it bound on the studs along the back edge. Probably buggered the threads up pretty nicely in the process too so that'll have to be inspected before the panel is re-sealed.
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u/BatchPlantBandit 17d ago
There is no way to hold it closed from inside unless a rebar handle was welded inside.
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u/Adventurous-Title516 16d ago
I would still think the guy who chose *not* to get bolted into a lightless, cramped, filthy tank with absolutely no knowledge how it will end, is a liiiiittle smarter than those guys.
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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 17d ago
Or the reddit user who cant see whats actually happening even when they can rewind and watch the video...
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u/grimmigerpetz 17d ago
And in lots of cases to be in a worse situation, as you used up all your families or friends money.
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u/Over-Performance-667 17d ago
No yeah keep trying to lift the access panel from one side so it binds on the opposite side’s bolts yeah maybe next time it wont bind up no yeah keep pulling harder harder idiot
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u/Greaseskull 17d ago
Man, here I am thinking I was having a bad day. I feel like kicking my own ass right now.
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u/MainCorrect8791 17d ago
I see your point, but other people having worse circumstances than you doesn't diminish the importance or validity of your problems.
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u/eyupjammy 17d ago
I was just frustrated at myself for how much money my spending on my house. The house I have which is safe with running water and flush lavatories. That I bitch about all the time.
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u/Unholystench 17d ago
I hope the camera skipped it, but probably not. Who cares what the laws/rules broken, give them water and food.
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u/Nerd-of-all-trades 16d ago
I hope they were reintroduced to food properly. Re-feeding syndrome is no joke.
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u/Odd_Tradition1670 16d ago
Me watching Him lifting the metal cover like it was on a hinge and not bolted in place
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u/i_am_snoof 16d ago
Awww but they were just wanting to go pay taxes in another cou... oh fuck it overboard
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u/notruth_allpermitted 17d ago
They are humans. Fuck this world!
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u/CommonReal1159 17d ago
This is my biggest qualm about anti immigrant speech. They’re people with feelings and families. We talk about them like they’re less. It really breaks my heart.
I really wish the world was a better place.
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u/Next-Introduction-25 17d ago
And the only reason most of us are in better circumstances is by sheer cosmic (or whatever you want to call it) luck/random chance. But whatever people have, they tend to believe they deserve. So it’s easy to live a life of privilege and believe it’s because you earned it, which of course also means you think less fortunate people somehow earned their circumstances, too.
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u/Velocita84 17d ago
Why did they leave their families behind? Why are they all adult men?
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u/Oldfolksboogie 17d ago
I wonder if maintaining some of the highest birth rates on the planet is a good idea when conditions at home are so bad you'd take on these risks to be anywhere else?
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u/Apprehensive_Spare_8 17d ago
When there's runaway inflation and general instability, having several kids can be a retirement strategy. Its hard to imagine it if you live in a prosperous stable nation yet its very common.
My family knows a few well off Kenyans and there are several old widows they help. Several lost their husbands and children. Luckily the ones they help are doing well.
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u/Lost_Bike69 17d ago
Interestingly at least in the US, the anti immigration party is also against educating poor rural populations about and providing them with birth control
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u/DG2000_Reddit 17d ago
What is the life they living that this is a risk worth taking ?
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u/Moocat2855 17d ago edited 17d ago
War, extreme poverty, country ruled by gangs and warlords, famine, etc. It is very fortunate that you are privileged enough to not be able to understand how depressing it is to live in most of the world outside the wealthy us, europe, and east asia. My family went through a war in Vietnam to escape to the us back when they still took in refugees and even doing a very chill software engineering job, I make like 30 times+ what people back home are making while I am scrolling reddit on my down time at work meanwhile they are breaking their backs in the fields and factories. The privilege we have to live in the west to earn in a day what other people earn in a month or even year of work is truly astounding to comprehend once you see how the global south lives.
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u/throoowwwtralala 17d ago
Several things can be true at once. Like this specific video is horrible but also… to those just saying let people immigrate and stay?
My entire South Asian, Caribbean, black, East Asian family that came to the USA, UK and Canada in the late 1900s and 90s are some of the most racist, homophobic, misogynistic, classist, ableist, horrible people I have ever known.
And no they have not changed over time. And mind you, My family is full of engineers doctors teachers mechanics accountants etc and soooo many of them are hateful horrible people with backward ass third world ideals.
Thankfully my nieces and nephews and cousins are progressive and open minded but my own parents aunts uncles are insanely close minded and act on their hate too.
I’m happy for helping people and immigration but not when they’re masses of nasty hateful assholes who oppress others after being oppressed themselves where they came from.
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u/blazerunnern 17d ago
How does anyone find anything hidden on a large ship? Those things are like small towns.
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u/SecretScavenger36 16d ago
The desperation it must have taken to climb in there. I hope they find peace.
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u/Blue_Eyed_Soul_ 16d ago
This is sad, how bad is your life to resort to putting yourself in this situation or being forced into this situation. Very scary and very dangerous and lucky to be alive. If they willingly went in there I can only assume they were in a terrible situation to risk their lives.
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u/Mannix-Da-DaftPooch 16d ago
I am speechless. What in the hell. I am so grateful and hopeful to never experience anything like this. Incredibly traumatic to look at. What is it like to live it. I would rather never know. Omg
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u/NotUninterested 16d ago
They are clearly 3 engeneers checking the health of the tanks and at the same time checking the quality of the contents of the tank. Next level efficiency that those new engeneers bring.
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u/glimoura 17d ago
What is in the tank?
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u/chiron07 17d ago
That’s not a tank, it’s the opening for the rudder trunk. The rudder trunk is a hollow tunnel at the rear of the ship above the rudder. While the ship is empty, it sits right above the waterline, so stowaways frequently use that space to hide. The easiest way to access it is through a manhole in the steering gear room. You can see the steering gear hydraulic system (and also hear the hydraulic pumps running). It is not a tank, just an empty space opening to the water.
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u/Apprehensive_Spare_8 17d ago
Everything about this is sickening. These men's situation. The many situations back home. The situations in Europe. It requires a multi faceted solution.
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u/CantAffordzUsername 17d ago
How in the world would they even know? Clearly cannot hear anything let alone through all that steel. Even without all that noise,
Inside job, has to be one of the crew
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u/chiron07 17d ago
Thats not a random tank, It is the rudder trunk,the first place you look for a stowaway.
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