From the Professional Mariner: In the same vein, a trade group supporting US flagged offshore service companies has launched the first ever Jones Act enforcement vessel, a 175 footer named the "Jones Act Enforcer." The crew has been trained identify and document Jones Act violations, using photo, video equipment and aerial surveillance gear.
People who love cruises also seem to enjoy extolling the joy of cruises to everyone they meet especially if they know you spend time on boats. My mother in law is determined to convince us that a cruise would be the perfect vacation and it could not appeal any less to me. Following a set itinerary that is completely out of my control, with throngs of people trying to do the same thing at the same time is the exact opposite about everything I enjoy running my own boat. I am glad for the people that enjoy them but it is the antithesis of small boat cruising as far as I can tell.
There you have it. 67,466 ships per million people in the USA or 22,000,000 ships in the USA! Liars figure but figures don't lie (except when manipulated).
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Greetings,
Mr. TAD. Long time no post. Good to see you back. How goes the ship work? Update, please.
...I don't see the situation improving, probably getting worse for the towns in Alaska that cruise ships exploit.
Ted
Cruise ships should not only not be exempt, they should be held to much more rigid standards. They are terrible. I personally don't understand how a person can say "I love the sea" and then participate in its destruction.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamese...h-and-environmental-problems/?sh=5823323b37db
I usually like Forbes, but thought this article was incredibly biased, and more of a hit piece on the cruise industry. I say this as a Climate Change alarmist....I am not a climate change denier by any means, but I don't think we can save the planet with bad journalism.
This article, like a lot of shallow journalism today, fails to ask the question: "Compared to what?" Sure, 2,000 people going on a cruise creates a lot of pollution, but compared to what ? Compared to tending their organic garden at home ? Agreed. But what if all 2000 of them took 4 hour car drives to a resort ? or if they all took flights to the Carribean ? Perhaps the tourism industry in general is bad for the environment, but is the Cruise Industry better or worse than the rest of it ? This article didn't expand on that at all.
I think the cruise ship industry could be held to a higher pollution standard and suspect that current standards aren't policed as effectively as they could be. Pre-Covid they certainly could have afforded it. Now they may not be able to and in fact I am sure they are hurting, but I hope the US Gov't doesn't offer them any kind of assistance. They have chosen to flag their vessels outside the US and have profitted handsomely for that decision. You don't get to thumb your nose at the US Gov't and then come begging with your hat in your hand. The world will keep spinning if Carnival and Princess go under. There will still be ships and willing cruisers so that economic vaccuum will get filled by someone else.
It doesn't make the points in the article any less valid. It actually makes the points more valid coming from such a knowledgable source.Reads like an ad for a PI law firm....which happened to write the article.