World View with Adam Gilchrist: Stranded sailors, a cruise ship comeback and our scrolling habits
Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa · 4 June 2026 · 4m
Speaker 1: Seven two, The Worldview with Adam Gilchrist got up with news from elsewhere in the Speaker 1: world. Adam Gilchrist, We've been looking, of course at that choke point, the Strait of Speaker 1: Homuz, thinking about shipping and all the goods that are stuck there. But there's more Speaker 1: than that. Speaker 2: Yeah, the people who are stuck there. Were talking twenty thousand sailors and crew who Speaker 2: are stuck on these ships either to one side of the Strait of Homus or Speaker 2: the other, and they're going nowhere at the moment, for instance, and it just struck Speaker 2: me. An interview with a couple of the captains on the BBC SO one of Speaker 2: them, for instance, Shefikul Islam. His ship is carrying thirty seven thousand tons of fertilizer Speaker 2: to South Africa. He has twice tried to sail through the blockade and twice failed. Speaker 2: Luckily his ship hasn't been damaged. But obviously there are a number of South African Speaker 2: farmers who'd rather could do with us thirty seven thousand tons. Another captain's spoken as Speaker 2: well, Hasan Khan. He's talked about the strangeness of it, how everything is very still Speaker 2: and very quiet, but the stress is leaping through their minds all the time. They're Speaker 2: churning away, he says, mentally and physically. Their crews are just exhausted by the inability Speaker 2: to be able to do anything. And three months on it's becoming especially fraught, even Speaker 2: the resupply of those ships. Remember, of course these are people on board. They need Speaker 2: food and water. Most still have food, but rations are getting a bit simpler. But Speaker 2: refilling their water tanks is…
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