A sailor who was stranded alone on a ghost ship for four years and forced to swim ashore to get supplies has finally been freed.
Mohammed Aisha was trapped in a legal bind after the ship was held by authorities in Egypt with him on board in 2017. He was obliged to stay on the MV Aman as its chief officer when it was detained near the Suez Canal because its safety certificates had expired.
Likening the vessel to a grave in the dead of night, Mohammed told the BBC: "You can't see anything. You can't hear anything.
It's like you're in a coffin." At one point a storm blew the Aman off its anchorage and it drifted five miles eventually running aground near the shoreline.
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