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What would you do
if you were sailing on a ship far from loved ones and you didn't know when you'd be able to set foot on land again?
For the crew of the cargo ship, the Avantour,
the Covid pandemic made this nightmare scenario a reality.
What is happening?
to the people we love that are at home.
Lives Less Ordinary from the BBC World Service tells their remarkable story in a new eight-part series.
Listen now.
Search for Lives Less Ordinary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
New Zealanders, most people will know, is at the far end of the world.
So young New Zealanders have always gone overseas.
It's long been a rite of passage for many young New Zealanders to head overseas once they finish their education.
But now it seems young professionals and graduates are leaving the country in record numbers,
sparking fears of a brain drain.
More than half of those departing Kiwis are heading to Australia,
across the Tasman Sea, known colloquially as the Ditch.
At the moment, everybody knows someone moving to Australia.
Especially in the last year, it's massive.
People are actually talking about the fact that people are talking about moving to Australia.