"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi)
07/04/2020 at 21:35 • Filed to: covid-19, #SHIPLOPNIK
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"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi)
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Where do you park your cruise ship when you can’t use it?
Turns out the answer is out at sea , between the Bahamas and Florida if you normally operate in the Caribbean, or in Manila Bay if you operate further afield (the Philippines being where most of the cruise industry’s “non customer facing” crews come from).
That’s an awful lot of very expensive tonnage steaming in slow circles.
Many of these ships still have crew aboard who haven’t been allowed to disembark due to accessible countries having border restrictions: globally, the only country currently allowing non-local crew to pass through for repatriation purposes is Barbados. Many crew have been effectively imprisoned for over 3 months. Apparently mental health is becoming a real issue.
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CB
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
07/04/2020 at 21:45 |
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Low morale? Loads of boats? This is the perfect time to become a pirate lord!
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> CB
07/04/2020 at 22:10 |
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I say "borrow" a few boats, and turn them into slum, er, low-cost housing in areas that are coastal, and overpriced. New York, Seattle, Bay Area California...
Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
07/04/2020 at 22:33 |
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I know that they’ve been making repatriation vessels where they’ve been gathering the majority of country crew on a vessel in efforts to get clearance to sail into home ports (such as the Philippines, Indonesia and C aribbean Islands ). The issue with the industry is than cruise ships sort of rotate around the ports so they can’t really put in at the same time , then there’s the fact that it costs money to tie up along side as well.
It depends on the company but typically officers are working somewhere between 2 or 3 months onboard and some have now been onboard for over 6 months. IMO regulations mandate the crew must depart the vessel after 12mo served (the Filipino crew loved to do 12mo and even extend if they could get away with it when I worked with them a decade ago).
It’s not only cruise ships but the travel restrictions and reductions
has had a major and
impact on vessel crew
in general as I detailed a few days ago:
https://oppositelock.kinja.com/vessels-to-sound-horns-may-1-1844254083
The industry is trying to get crew home but this is a whole bunch of
political and diplomatic
headaches
that will stay in the shadows.
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
07/04/2020 at 23:26 |
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Funny.... all I see is “prospective artificial reefs”
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
07/05/2020 at 00:17 |
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Cruising for a brusing...
We have a family member who is an engineer on a superyacht support boat. The two boats were in Chile when this kicked off in March. The current crews couldn’t get out because new crew couldn’t get in. They are now in Panama and they were trying to get through to Costa Rica but that has been scuttled because again new crew can’t get in and there’s also issues getting through the Canal . The next option apparently is to head to Mexico...
The owners don’t want to have the boats in the US because...politics. So bringing them home isn’t an option either.
So this bloke could be away until well into September...he should have been back at the end of April. His 18 month old twins have almost forgotten who he is...
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
07/05/2020 at 01:38 |
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Works for me - the President Coolidge is one of the best dives I’ve ever done.
https://www.diveplanit.com/dive-site/ss-president-coolidge/