The remains were found indicating the crewmen were at their positions at the crank.
One of the initial surprises was that there were eight crewmen, not the nine thought to have been aboard before the Hunley was raised.
A UN survey found that of 49 migrant fishermen interviewed, 29 said that they had witnessed skippers murdering crewmen when they were too weak or sick to work.Unsurprisingly, such reports prick the conscience of American consumers.
The only boat around belongs to Captain Ziggie who, along with his two crewmen, sweats from heaving ice chests onto the deck.
But shipowners using them could face legal action in various places: their own country, the flag state of their ship, the home countries of injured crewmen, and so on.
Fishermen seem to agree: the Scottish Fishermen's Federation says that a good many boats cannot put to sea because crewmen have gone to better-paid offshore oil work and skippers are discouraging sons from taking on the family boat.Given that there are plenty of alternative jobs in the areas where fishing is concentrated, the social cost of a dying trade need not be too high.
At most you pass one or two crewmen: modern ships are huge but their crews small.
On November 22nd, a court in Darwin sentenced five Indonesian fishermen to two-year prison terms for taking boat people to Australia; another 60 crewmen are facing charges.The arrivals, and the government's response, have sparked a fresh debate about Australia's immigration policy.
Hundreds of vessels bore 20,000 crewmen, passengers and horses through the western Pacific to take silk, porcelain and tea to countries as far away as east Africa.Special report The Pacific Age Galleons and gunships The flying factory America's big bet Your rules or mine?
As they fired on a Yankee ship the crewmen shouted, "That's from the scum of England".
The trouble is, Sayonara and her kind are wind-driven surfboards: unstable, flimsy, with accelerations that cause gear to fail and that incapacitate crewmen.
