Captain of the cargo ship Monarch Princess, Ievgen Slautin of Ukraine, speaks during an interview in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Feb. 5, 2024. Teeters Agency & Stevedoring, which owned the vessel, became insolvent and stopped paying dockage fees in Florida. Slautin said although he was still owed around $15,000, he thanked God he was abandoned in the United States. "If it was in some other country, I could have been left there to simply die." (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin)
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