Like many we love to go on holiday, and we made a few cruises in our free time with our family. To be able to go on a cruis is a dream. So i was devastated when i saw the news yesterday. When cruise ships these days make their last journey, it is often to this grim place.
Just months ago, cruising was considered the travel industry’s fastest-growing sector, worth more than $200 billion.
This is video I made when I was on holiday last year.
When you see these beauties and than the rest of my blog ....
A “ship graveyard” on the east coast of Turkey is where unwanted ships, including massive luxury cruise liners, are sent to be broken down for scrap metal. Ships around the world were forced into hibernation earlier this year, battered by the economic shutdown that accompanied the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a series of coronavirus outbreaks that hurt the industry’s reputation for safety.
And during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the multi-billion dollar cruise industry faces its biggest crisis, the grave yard as i call it risks filling up faster than ever before. For all negative things in life is also a positive because the ship yard owner is getting rich. I saw ships we looked at before booking and i even saw a ship my parent made a beautiful trip on, laying there has broken down. Huge vessels are brought in and breached at the shipyard at Aliaga where more than 1000 workers spend months pulling each one apart.
About 98 per cent of a ship can be turned into scrap metal, according to the Turkish News, with anything that can’t – like life jackets – sold off.
Many of the world’s most notable cruise ships have met their fate here, such as Carnival Imagination, Carnival Inspiration, Carnival Fantasy ( the ones we always spoil with ) @dswigle this is so sad. Also the world’s first “mega cruise ship”, Royal Caribbean’s Sovereign of the Seas is there.
A camera fitted on the bridge of Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas filmed the ship’s arrival at the shipyard last year, its on YouTube.
Here you see the sailing on the sand dock where it will stay for months while being stripped. Recycled all the way down. Here you see two who are still in tact and in the middle one half way stripped to all the huts, seaview is now everywhere.
The ships arrive as if they’ve just finished a fantastic holiday, some complete with furniture, but devoid of the valuable paying customers who were forced off board when the pandemic struck.
Just like us because we would have gone on the next cruis on 15 October, so in two weeks, when the boys had holiday, but that is ofcourse cancelled and not possible due to covid. But because all passengers can’t go on holiday all the ships are to expensive and have a new final destination and its not a lovely , romantic point somewhere exotic! Ninety-eight per cent of the ships can be turned into scrap metal.
The rest, including light fittings and life jackets, is sold off.
Each one will take about eight months to demolish, not something i thought when walking on the ships i was on. Early retirement is nesseccary for the sealines to have some money back in these trying times. With most of these ships being scrapped 15 years before the end of their lifespan, they’re considered ‘green’ by the industry - free of dangerous materials like asbestos. So more recycle possibilities.
Carnival Corporation tells it is selling off nearly 20 per cent of its fleet, “speeding up its timetable to retire older, less efficient ships during its pause in cruising”.
Cruise liners being dismantled at Aliaga, Turkey.
Credit: Jimmy Cannon/7NEWS ~ Youtube ~ Carnival Cruises, RTL NEWS HOLLAND and MSC
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Blog Date : 3 October 2020
I’ve never been in a cruise before but I’d probably be something like this
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Wow, that looks crazy a beautiful ship that's slowly been turned into scrap metal. I wonder if that's really the best way to get some money back from the "sinking ship" industry caused by covid? Insane.. never saw anything like it .. sad though, as it was a big industry once.. I never went on a cruise myself. Probably never will anymore now either :(
I've seen cruise ships up close, but have never been on a cruise. We were always too afraid of getting ill from the bacteria that reportedly ran rampant on them. The prices were outrageous I always thought. Customers were always being taking from the ships at various ports due to illness.
But most of all, I had no idea of what happened to cruise ships when they were no longer in service for whatever reason. Years ago, I'd heard of some being damaged, but still didn't connect connect the dots on the ship "graveyard." A sad end to such a magnificent vessel.
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