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Saving lives at sea is not a crime
Nautilus International leader MARK DICKINSON explains how pressure from his union prevented seafarers being criminalised under the government’s Nationality and Borders Bill for assisting those in danger at sea
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THE criminalisation of seafarers is nothing new for Nautilus International.
All too often, seafarers are made the scapegoats when something goes wrong at sea, and as the trade union for maritime professionals, Nautilus is tasked with defending its members when they are unfairly blamed for accidents.
However, the British government’s proposed Nationality and Borders Bill represented a new — and very serious — legal threat to every seafarer working around the British coast, something that the union simply could not tolerate.
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