Cruise ships are truly massive. These ships can hold many tourists and have a wide array of staff. There isn’t enough room aboard the Cruise ship for them to hold it there, so at some point they need to get rid of it?
Well many of them do dispose of their waste when they get back to port, sensibly and cleanly. Many however have been dumping their waste in the sea. They simply cannot contain all of the waste in the cruise ship and are forced to release it into the open water. This “dumping” is unacceptable if we want to keep the oceans in clean areas like the Caribbean clean. Around 2003 these ships were creating about thirty thousand gallons of sewage each day. However today there isn’t a study out that shows us what the output of these ships is.
However this isn’t the main problem. The biggest problem with the cruise liners is what the release into the atmosphere. The engines that thee liners use are of massive proportion, they burn great amounts of diesel that releases harmful dioxides into the air. Over a 10 year period from 1991 to 2001 the amount of cruises bought just in the UK rose from 193,000 to 776,000. There is not telling how many people will be going on cruises in the next ten years. St Lucia holidays have become very popular, the St Lucian government has even banned some cruise liners from entering its waters.
One thing is for sure though, either we find a new way to power these Cruise ships or we are going to have to forget about them altogether. If you’re thinking of going on Barbados holidays or having weddings abroad, then think quickly before the Caribbean is just another victim of pollution. How long will it be before we cant visit the Caribbean just because it has been so badly damaged.
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