Cruise ships in Weymouth Bay
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Anyone seen these. Must look pretty impressive.
https://www.thetraveltrunk.net/cruise-ships-covid1...
https://www.thetraveltrunk.net/cruise-ships-covid1...
Similar up here on the Forth. Four Fred Olson boats have been sat off Prestonpans for weeks too. Quite a lot more oil tankers (or similar) lying off East Lothian too and what looks like a oil rig support vessel has been moored just south of Torness power station for what seems like weeks too. Definitely strange times.
El stovey said:
Anyone seen these. Must look pretty impressive.
https://www.thetraveltrunk.net/cruise-ships-covid1...
That's an impressive sight although a sad one given the situation.https://www.thetraveltrunk.net/cruise-ships-covid1...
Simpo Two said:
Seems to me that a cruise ship is a much better place to practice social distancing than an aeroplane. It just takes a few days to get anywhere.
Maybe this is where we should put some of the old and most vulnerable (after proper tests this time) and the rest can get back to work. Make them all like beautiful carehomes and give them loads of PPE and equipment. Much cheaper than lockdowns and quarantines.
Feel sorry for the staff trapped onboard, hopefully this will be the end of Cruises in their current form, they destroy tourist hotspots in lots of areas for locals and don't contribute much to the wider economy.
I had family in Weymouth and remember when the Condor used to dock, the whole air stank of cheap marine diesel and the clatter from the engines could be heard at night well over a mile away as they could never be turned off as they then wouldn't be able to restart.
I had family in Weymouth and remember when the Condor used to dock, the whole air stank of cheap marine diesel and the clatter from the engines could be heard at night well over a mile away as they could never be turned off as they then wouldn't be able to restart.
untakenname said:
the clatter from the engines could be heard at night well over a mile away as they could never be turned off as they then wouldn't be able to restart.
Not so much restarting them. There will always be at least one engine running to generate electricity for the ships systems and to keep the bilge pumps running. I wonder how many people who slag off cruise holidays have actually been on one?
For every cruise holiday I'm sure there are many where poor b
ds drive 3 hours to Heathrow or Gatwick, try to park 8 miles from the terminal, if you can find your way to it in time then you cram yourself into an EasyJet tube with a packed lunch and sit with your knees under your chin for 3 hours until you get to some tacky hotel in Costa ste where some kid drowned in the swimming pool and you have to buy your own food in a grubby foreign supermarket where you can't read the labels... get sunburn, then reverse the process to get home...
For every cruise holiday I'm sure there are many where poor b
ds drive 3 hours to Heathrow or Gatwick, try to park 8 miles from the terminal, if you can find your way to it in time then you cram yourself into an EasyJet tube with a packed lunch and sit with your knees under your chin for 3 hours until you get to some tacky hotel in Costa ste where some kid drowned in the swimming pool and you have to buy your own food in a grubby foreign supermarket where you can't read the labels... get sunburn, then reverse the process to get home...Simpo Two said:
I wonder how many people who slag off cruise holidays have actually been on one?
For every cruise holiday I'm sure there are many where poor bds drive 3 hours to Heathrow or Gatwick, try to park 8 miles from the terminal, if you can find your way to it in time then you cram yourself into an EasyJet tube with a packed lunch and sit with your knees under your chin for 3 hours until you get to some tacky hotel in Costa ste where some kid drowned in the swimming pool and you have to buy your own food in a grubby foreign supermarket where you can't read the labels... get sunburn, then reverse the process to get home...
I have, but I hated seeing the moronic crowds of boat sheeple clogging up Valletta when I lived in Malta. So I'm a hpyocrite. It's a human condition.For every cruise holiday I'm sure there are many where poor b
ds drive 3 hours to Heathrow or Gatwick, try to park 8 miles from the terminal, if you can find your way to it in time then you cram yourself into an EasyJet tube with a packed lunch and sit with your knees under your chin for 3 hours until you get to some tacky hotel in Costa ste where some kid drowned in the swimming pool and you have to buy your own food in a grubby foreign supermarket where you can't read the labels... get sunburn, then reverse the process to get home...Simpo Two said:
I wonder how many people who slag off cruise holidays have actually been on one?
I have - awful. Royal Caribbean - around the caribbean unsurprisingly. The wife won it as prize at work. Floating slophouse for greedy Americans. You arrive at ports and then get decanted into small towns - often with the contents of other massive cruise ships. Queue to off, queue to get on, etc - not pleasant.bristolracer said:
untakenname said:
the clatter from the engines could be heard at night well over a mile away as they could never be turned off as they then wouldn't be able to restart.
Not so much restarting them. There will always be at least one engine running to generate electricity for the ships systems and to keep the bilge pumps running. bristolracer said:
I wonder how many of the foreign crews got home?
I appreciate the engineers will still need to be on board but what about all the cabin crew?
On that subject...I appreciate the engineers will still need to be on board but what about all the cabin crew?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-5272276...
bristolracer said:
I wonder how many of the foreign crews got home?
I appreciate the engineers will still need to be on board but what about all the cabin crew?
This website gives some indication.I appreciate the engineers will still need to be on board but what about all the cabin crew?
https://www.intermanager.org/maritime-champions/
Most cruise companies have sent hotel staff home where possible, many of whom will have had to undergo 14 day isolation when they got home, and who probably won’t be earning whilst they’re ashore.
The economy of many crew providing countries (certainly in the Philippines Where something daft like 80% of the population work abroad) rely on these guys earning money and sending it home.
A cleaner on a cruise ship can earn the same as a teacher back home, their wage often supports a network of family and small businesses.
Crew sizes on the bigger cruise ships can run into thousands, but the minimum safe manning to actually operate the shippy bits will only be about 20-30.
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