Enough to put you off a cruise?!



bit choppy that like.
a few years back i was coming back from santander-plymouth and the crew started to pull all the life jackets out going through the bay of biscay. quite a few were worried but they said they were only doing a stock-check.
i love being on boats and been in some rough seas but nothing really scary unlike being on a bloody aeroplane.
 
DH1 said:
Cruise Ship Pollution - Beachapedia
Cruise ships have been described as "floating cities" and like cities, they have a lot of pollution problems. Their per capita pollution is actually worse than a city of the same population, due to weak pollution control laws, lax enforcement, and the difficulty of detecting illegal discharges at sea. Cruise ships impact coastal waters in several US states, including Alaska, California, Florida, and Hawaii.

All cruise ships generate the following types of waste:

  • "Gray water" from sinks, showers, laundries and galleys
  • Sewage or "black water" from toilets
  • Oily bilge water
  • Hazardous wastes (including perchloroethylene from drycleaning, photo-processing wastes, paint waste, solvents, print shop wastes, fluorescent light bulbs, and batteries)
  • Solid wastes (plastic, paper, wood, cardboard, food waste, cans, and glass)
  • Air pollution from the ship's diesel engines

A 3,000-passenger cruise ship (considered an average size, some carry 5,000 or more passengers) generates the following amounts of waste on a typical one-week voyage:

  • 1 million gallons of "gray water"
  • 210,000 gallons of sewage
  • 25,000 gallons of oily bilge water
  • Over 100 gallons of hazardous or toxic waste
  • 50 tons of garbage and solid waste
  • Diesel exhaust emissions equivalent to thousands of automobiles
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2 points.
Just cos it generates such waste doesnt mean it hoys it overboard.
5000 folk would still generate similar waste if they stopped at home.
 
DH1 said:
Cruise Ship Pollution - Beachapedia
Cruise ships have been described as "floating cities" and like cities, they have a lot of pollution problems. Their per capita pollution is actually worse than a city of the same population, due to weak pollution control laws, lax enforcement, and the difficulty of detecting illegal discharges at sea. Cruise ships impact coastal waters in several US states, including Alaska, California, Florida, and Hawaii.

All cruise ships generate the following types of waste:

  • "Gray water" from sinks, showers, laundries and galleys
  • Sewage or "black water" from toilets
  • Oily bilge water
  • Hazardous wastes (including perchloroethylene from drycleaning, photo-processing wastes, paint waste, solvents, print shop wastes, fluorescent light bulbs, and batteries)
  • Solid wastes (plastic, paper, wood, cardboard, food waste, cans, and glass)
  • Air pollution from the ship's diesel engines

A 3,000-passenger cruise ship (considered an average size, some carry 5,000 or more passengers) generates the following amounts of waste on a typical one-week voyage:

  • 1 million gallons of "gray water"
  • 210,000 gallons of sewage
  • 25,000 gallons of oily bilge water
  • Over 100 gallons of hazardous or toxic waste
  • 50 tons of garbage and solid waste
  • Diesel exhaust emissions equivalent to thousands of automobiles
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Very little of that goes into the sea man, some grey water can be discharged but only in certain areas, this is no different to grey water created on land. Oily bilge water MUST be disposed of to tanker, this is never done at sea. All black water is discharged whilst the ship is at a berth, into the local sewage system. Most Cruise ports have a mandatory waste facility which ships must use for garbage and solid waste. The only slightly contentious issue currently, is wrt ships that are fitted with scrubbers to remove Sox and Nox from emissions, some of the water from this process is currently discharged at sea but this is strictly banned in the Baltic, Fjords and most of the North (or German) Sea.
 
There will be a massive disaster with these ships at some point. They got lucky with the Concordia as it grounded. There aren't enough crew to control the passengers. If panic sets in they are fucked it's not like most cruise passengers are fit. A big fire or flood... Looking at that.They couldn't have abandoned ship. It would have been carnage.
 

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