While the link to the forum thread below doesn’t really shed any light on the reasons people/mariners kill themselves it does remind us that mariners were killing themselves long before Covid19 & being forced to work over. I sailed on a ship where a former client killed himself by jumping overboard in the far Southern Atlantic. I worked with a Chief Mate who discussed killing himself & we canceled the vessels schedule to get him ashore asap. I worked at an OSV company where 2 CEs hanged themselves in the engine rooms over the years. Blame Covid19, the guys office or the gun if you want but there’s no logical excuse to kill yourself & the only reason would be mental illness.
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