Sailors Face Months of Stress as Strait of Hormuz Blockade Persists

Sailors face severe psychological stress, exhaustion, and health risks from months of confinement with no safe evacuation pathway available.

For over three months, merchant sailors have been held in an invisible captivity not of their choosing — anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which a fifth of the world's oil must travel, while geopolitical forces far beyond their reach determine the shape of their days. Ninety-four days into a blockade with no diplomatic resolution in sight, these workers of global commerce endure exhaustion, isolation, and the particular anguish of an open-ended confinement. Their stillness is a mirror held up to the world's dependence on both fossil fuels and the fragile human infras

Sailors Face Months of Stress as Strait of Hormuz Blockade Persists

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