I wanna know more about working on a cruise ship. If you are/were working as a crew member, or if you know someone who does/did, please DM me! There's a lot of the usual questions that I want to know answers for, before I decide to jump in.

#cruises #cruiseships

How cruise ships got so big

Today’s cruise ships are several times as big as the Titanic

Cruise ships are freaking big. They’re the biggest passenger vessels humans have ever built. In size and appearance, they look nothing like almost any other boat. So how did they get that way?

The predecessor of today’s cruise ships was the ocean liner: big, beautiful ships that sailed across the Atlantic.

#CruiseShips #ships #VOX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdFFL9wNsaY

A record number of 92 cruise ships are due to descend upon Northland in the 2023/24 season.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/132540172/all-hands-on-deck-as-record-cruise-ship-numbers-planned-for-northlands-bay-of-islands

Meanwhile Amsterdam is closing its cruise ship terminal due to their pollution and in an attempt to try and limit mass tourism.

One of these things is not like the other.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/20/amsterdam-to-close-cruise-ship-terminal-amid-effort-to-restrict-tourism

#CruiseShips #Amsterdam #Northland

Amsterdam's city council has decided to close a major cruise ship terminal in its centre in the latest measure to limit mass tourism in the Dutch capital.

"Polluting cruise ships are not in line with the sustainable ambitions of our city," said a statement from centre-right party D66, which runs the city with the social democrats PvdA and GroenLinks environmentalists.

https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2023/0721/1395741-amsterdam-ship-port/

#Netherlands #Amsterdam #CruiseShips #Cruises #Pollution #Tourism #OverTourism

#Amsterdam banning #CruiseShips from the locality is a very good start, now lets apply that same rigour to the entire planet and get these destructive seaborne disease cannnisters gone completely, or at the very least, gone until they figure out how to operate them without causing colossal damage to the environment.

#fossil fuels #carbon #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #CO2 #coal #AirTravel #CruiseShips #oil #methane #SUVs #PickupTrucks #gasoline

#CDC data reveals #norovirus #outbreaks in #cruiseships have reached a 10-year high

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-18-cdc-norovirus-outbreaks-cruise-ships-decade-high.html

#CarnivalCorporation #cruiseships emitted more toxic #sulfuroxides than all cars in Europe in 2022 #airpollution

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-14-carnival-cruise-ships-emit-more-toxic-fumes.html

Via The Atlantic: "[A]lthough scientists who visit [Antarctica] to study its life and demise have a clear place here, many sightseers bring a whiff of 'last-chance tourism'—a desire to see a place before it’s gone, even if that means helping hasten its disappearance."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/antarctica-tourism-overcrowding-environmental-threat/674600/

#Antarctica #LastChanceTourism #ClimateChange #CruiseShips

I’m not getting on this thing.
Nor am I getting on the submersible to visit its remains.
#iconofthesea #cruiseships #titanic

The new Titanic has entered sea trials. The world's biggest cruise ship 'Icon of the Seas' is 365m long. By comparison, Auckland's Sky Tower is only 328m high.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/experiences/cruises/132442996/worlds-biggest-cruise-ship-gets-taken-out-for-its-first-spin

#OverSized #CruiseShips

Some years ago, when we were cruising B.C. and Alaska, we stopped and anchored outside a small fjord with the name Misty Fjord (South East Alaska). We arranged for a flight sight seeing for the guests.
I was very surprised when so many asked us how we could fit this (chartered of course) air plane inside the ship.
As the professional we were, we did NOT laugh at these questions.
These days, a little smile.
😁

#cruise #cruiseships #travel #maritime #sailor #Alaska #MistyFjord #airplane #tourist

BBC News: Southampton among worst for cruise ship pollution, study says BBC News - Southampton among worst for cruise ship pollution, study says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-65913504

#Southampton
#CruiseShips
#Emissions
#Pollution

Trough the Corinth Canal, with the Seabourn Legend.
Always a spectacular sight.

#travel #cruise #holiday #cruiselife #cruiseships #Greece #CorinthCanal

Of all the things to have to petition, just because one person decided that they don't like it 🤦‍♂️

#CromartyFirth
#CruiseShips

https://chng.it/5bMhVWQmSL

Cruise ship Costa Favolosa in Greenock looking rather smart.

#inverclyde #greenock #cruise #cruiseships #costafavolosa #shipsinpics #drone

#Stavanger old town is very nice. Just this stupid moving skyscraper pensionist hotel in the background every where is wrong. Totally wrong. A huge problem. #cruiseships

This is just to remind myself I once upon a time was not old and veeeery fat.
Anno 1995.

#cruise #career #jobsatsea #travel #cruiselife #cruiseships #maritime #seafarer

The cruise ship "Hanseatic Spirit" arriving out of the gloom in #Stromness. Too big for the harbour it has to sit at anchor and shuttle the passengers in to the town. Best avoid Stromness today!
#Orkney #CruiseShips

"Poop decks and gimcrackery revisited" or what about those cruise ships in #Monterey Bay? From Joe Livernois: https://montereyneighborsandfriends.substack.com/p/poop-decks-and-gimcrackery-revisited
#cruiseships