Comments on: Stowaway Find http://www.shiptalk.com/?p=5296 Seafarer maritime forum - access to the shipping industry, seafarers, marine recruiters, maritime education, maritime lawyers and insurers, plus news, views, advice and images of the marine industry in which we work Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:06:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Klaatu83 http://www.shiptalk.com/?p=5296&cpage=1#comment-4281 Klaatu83 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:27:18 +0000 http://www.shiptalk.com/?p=5296#comment-4281 Those stowaways probably don't realize how lucky they were. The captains of some of those flag-of-convenience ships have been known to throw stowaways overboard in order to save the owners the expense of repatriating them. When I was sailing we always did a stowaway search BEFORE we sailed, especially when sailing from impoverished, third-world ports like that. Those stowaways probably don’t realize how lucky they were. The captains of some of those flag-of-convenience ships have been known to throw stowaways overboard in order to save the owners the expense of repatriating them.

When I was sailing we always did a stowaway search BEFORE we sailed, especially when sailing from impoverished, third-world ports like that.

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