The Celebrity Infinity Cruise ship where DJ Caio Saldanha and the rest of the crew had been trapped since mid-March. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images

When Covid-19 put an end to cruises, customers went home. Crews weren’t so lucky.

The remnants of Caio Saldanha’s past life are fossilized on his Instagram feed. In December, the Brazilian DJ uploaded a video of a deliriously packed cruise ship floating on the rippling Atlantic ocean. But since then, that euphoria has been set aside. Instead, Saldanha, who has worked a number of different cruise dates in his career, posts a few Instagram stories a week detailing the two months he has been trapped at sea.

The Trump administration issued a no-sail mandate on all boating on March 13, the day before Saldanha launched on Celebrity Cruises’ 1,000-foot Celebrity Infinity ship for a 24-week stay. That left him,