S08E02 Kate Pike on the Mental Health of Stranded Seafarers

Hundreds of thousands of sea farers have been stranded at sea since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in early 2020. In this episode of Voices, maritime expert Kate Pike speaks with IHRB's Francesca Fairbairn about urgent efforts to address mental health of seafarers still trapped at sea. Over 500 organisations have now signed the Neptune Declaration, calling for key worker status and priority vaccination for seafarers, collaboration between ship operators and charterers to facilitate crew changes, and air connectivity between key maritime hubs for seafarers, but it remains to be seen whether this will finally bring this crisis to an end.