How $300 Million Cruise Ships Are Demolished | Big Business

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Looking to cut costs as COVID-19 ravaged the cruise industry, Carnival Cruise Line sold six ships for scrap. At the Aliaga ship-breaking yard in Turkey, Carnival's Fantasy, Imagination, and Inspiration ships are in the process of being demolished. Here, workers cut apart and recycle every piece of these massive ships. It's one of most dangerous jobs in the world. And it's only gotten harder as more cruise ships arrive on Aliaga's shores.
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[@Ted_Swayinghill]

The carnival imagination was the first ship I worked on as a musician…such a bittersweet feeling

[@ihihihihi.heheh.]

That's must be hard for you. I once live in a house for quite a long time. And now the house gone becauss of road making. That's extremely sad. I was crying. So many memories. Even though i am not live in that house anymore, but to see it gone just hurt my heart.

[@lemmingsfly]

Imagination was the first cruise ship I ever sailed on. I enjoyed the big indoor lobby area where you could see the all the elevators going up and down. Being aboard was very impressive for a 15 year old boy like me. I have been on several much bigger ships since but I will never forget Imagination.

[@juanpablodo12345678]

@@lemmingsflyCarnival Imagination was also my first cruise! Very nice ship

[@laydsimba]

The Imagination was my first ever cruise! 3 days to the Bahamas. My friend had her wedding reception on the ship. 😢❤

[@suparnodey6694]

First make and then break.Dont know what this human race actually wants.Gold commode or grass ground, purpose is the same. 😮

[@AggyThomas]

People don’t seem to understand. If the cruise line couldn’t afford to keep them in basic operation, what makes anyone think someone else can afford to use them as a housing unit? Basic operational cost is extremely high

[@FortMetallica]

High cost price tags always come with a higher risk. Not many investors and millionaires seem to understand that. I learned that the easy way. I had a waterfront cottage off lake Erie. Neighborhood was trash; old 1950s cottages and trailers on blocks ran to the ground by the natural geography and/or drug addicts just not taking care of their houses. The corn field next to our neighborhood got sold to investors and turned into a housing complex for middle class, also waterfront. While they allowed houses on our side of the community to fall into the lake along with roads, they enforced breakers to keep the millionaires’ houses from falling in. Rose our taxes by SEVEN times and eventually I moved more in-land away from a consistent flood zone, also for less than 6 figures as when I had my house there. Almost 24 years later now and most of those “new” high cost houses aren’t withstanding. Looks no different than the ghetto side I moved from. They implemented a very strict HOA to secure the properties. Meanwhile I moved into a house that’s been standing since the Great Depression with minimal flaw. Some residents were so old they bought the houses new. Lesson learned. Invest minimal money, obtain some common sense, and you’ll be secure for the rest of your life with minimal risk. To live extravagant is more risky than it is costly.

[@BillLaBrie]

It’s just a nice thing to say. “Think of the unhoused! Why won’t someone think of the poor! Ok, my work here is done. I feel good about myself.”

[@zackakai5173]

This. People don't seem to have any concept of how ludicrously expensive it is to maintain anything that goes in the water. If they're really so concerned about housing homeless people (which I'm entirely in favor of, for the record), it'd be SIGNFICANTLY more efficient to scrap the ship, then take that money and use it to build a conventional building on land.

[@bmwm3339]

@@zackakai5173the amount of rooms and people it can hold won’t it be cheaper to just park that on land and house people I mean yeah they might not have full luxuries but they are housed?

[@fiatmultiplaa]

I’m a marine engineer that’s working on a cruise ship. It’s very expensive to run cruise ships machinery especially on an older ship like this. Machinery breaks, you need new spare parts, man power and knowledge to fix it, the normal working machinery also needs regular maintenance and safety tests etc. Only way I could see cruise ship being used for housing is if you connect electricity from shore directly and stop sailing. It would lover the maintenance costs since you are not using engines anymore and everything to do with them, but the cost of electricity would be very high and even then people would have to be there every day to supervise other systems like waste water management, electrical systems etc…

[@josephastier7421]

This is a really nice breakers yard. In other places it's barefoot 14 year olds running the cutting torches.

[@kap1526]

Yeah this is Turkey, not a country like Bangladesh

[@tomrogers9467]

Them and their 14 siblings.

[@aaron___6014]

I've seen a lot of these yards and have never seen kids running torches. That's a better paying job.

[@daviaraujo777]

yeah, places like Alang or Chitagong...

[@bineetgupta]

​@@daviaraujo777can't do that at Alang now, don't know about Gadani or Chittagong

[@Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG]

This Whole industry needs to ensure that employees are paid fairly and given PROPER PPE for the dangerous work done.

[@papasquat355]

The CEO appeared to be well taken care of. I wonder if the care given to him will trickle down.

[@cwg73160]

Every workplace in every industry in the entire world needs to ensure that employees are paid fairly and given PROPER PPE for the dangerous work alone. I’m a better person than you.

[@GorGob]

sand people don't care about those things forget about it

[@alltree78]

Hahaha your funny

[@zahkam7322]

@@GorGob neither do the mud and dung people from the west , why do you think they send it there? Cos its CHEAP

[@flashladderacrobat]

Crumbling cruise industry? Booming now again.

[@TheBigExclusive]

Makes me wonder if they regret scrapping these ships. The ships could have easily lasted another 10 years with proper maintenance and refits.

[@skippyguy3]

​@TheBigExclusive you clearly don't know anything about ships.

[@UnknownReloader]

I wonder what the profit margin is on a 100,000+ ton cruise ship with scrap steel at $320/ton (US prices). Seems like a steal for some steel to me.

[@VickersDoorter]

Steal for some steel. Oh, I see what you did there.

[@aggabus]

32,000,000$ Similar sum sounding smooth sailing sale steel south 33m$

[@aggabus]

32,000,000$ smooth sailing steel sale sum sound. Sold Similar south of33m$

[@aggabus]

0:21 shreds lyiaer Oxymoron heavy on Latter a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ). "that fashionable rhetorical novelty, the humblebrag, is itself an oxymoron" Falsity untruthfulness untruth fallaciousness falseness falsehood fictitiousness fiction inaccuracy inexactness hollowness mendacity fabrication dishonesty deceitfulness deceit hypocrisy unveracity

[@skippyguy3]

The steel doesn't weigh 100,000 tons.

[@JC02official]

This is really sad. I see no reason why these cruise ships need to be destroyed.

[@buildintotrains]

I remember cruising on the Inspiration as a kid with my famility back in 2006. Good times but super strange feeling to see it in this video about to be dismantled

[@mostHumblePersonAlive]

Those are absolutely beautiful ships and I hate seeing them being ripped apart like this.

[@goonwatchtv6434]

It must be really eerie being the captain and few staff on board for the journey to the yard. Legit ghost ships.

[@1953fords]

To think at that time it was cheaper for them to scrap them instead of sitting on them. Our world will never be the same after the last 4 years. ☹️

[@edwardvicente7555]

Damn, the covid cost billion for the cruise industry

[@papasquat355]

The post covid industry has far surpassed any losses. Ships are booked thru 2024 already.

[@Nookdashiddole]

Good riddance

[@alanbiancardi2531]

People fell for the fakedemic. Glad we are pure bloods

[@HippieArtHousewife]

So heartbreaking to see my favorite ships like this. Fantasy class ships were my favorite. The others are so big & too many people. Fantasy was our 1st cruise and took 2 on Inspiration.

[@atomsmash100]

Hard to see the Sovereign class ships there for scrapping. Sovereign of the Seas was groundbreaking when first launched.

[@mikestrohm3271]

It was my first ship as a Security Officer in '97

[@obfuscated3090]

Good! More steel for Turkey which can do the work in a safety regulation-compliant manner to EU standards. It would be cheap enough to add safety harnesses and respirators though. (Torch work itself is not difficult, I've done plenty, but breathing the fumes is unwise.) This is a far more professional operation than those at Alang etc. Good (temporary) riddance to the cruise industry which is mostly waste, but it will rebound as always and higher vessel turnover means more modern, safer vessels replacing old ships.

[@DL30Creations]

Watching years of people's happiness and dreams torn apart is very depressing. All the memories those walls helped build now torn apart. I was on Carnival Sensation once and now it is going through this year long tortureeous death is very sad. 😢

[@bill_lumbergh]

It’s a ship

[@papasquat355]

It's just a thing. Why the drama?

[@johnarthur620]

Seriously dude?

[@SoupyMittens]

its just a boring ass cruise ship, looks identical to every single other one.

[@DanielaAnaelle]

I wonder if they regretted getting rid of the ships after the lockdowns were done. People have been booking cruises like crazy.

[@Islandmixtv]

Heartbreaking to watch the destruction of those nice ships

[@annabellesnightmares]

It's a sad sight.

[@davidanalyst671]

those were the janky ships. the newer ones are nicer

[@pon2oon]

Ship-breaking depresses me for some reason.

[@mathiaswilhelm1902]

Probably because these monoliths to consumerism and extreme decadence are being dumped like an old school project

[@joshuapinkham2925]

is there an online site where they auction off what they take from the ship that an every buyer can buy?

[@henrydesmarais7238]

Unsure let me know if you find out

[@Boyarsskiy]

1:36 - Aliağa is wrong pointed on the map. It situated near Izmir, in Aegean Sea. The interesting fact, that I saw safety boats from Carnival Fantasy in Dalyan village, that is 300 km south of Izmir. They were lying near the local shipyard.

[@slayerd357]

These shipbreaking facilities have to be some of the most dangerous jobsites on earth.

[@mrprutten]

These giant trash buckets shouldn't be built in the first place. Such largesse is truly disgusting.

[@TheBeninging777]

Have you ever even been on one? If you could afford to take a trip on one, your viewpoint would change instantly!

[@grumpyoldman336]

Im sure all these employees are paid accordingly to this type of hazardous work environment right?..... lmao

[@LIFE-nh4zq]

Sad, I ve sailed multiple times each on 3 of the 5 cruise ships in this video. Inspiration, Imagination, and Monarch of the seas when it was with royal. All from Loas Angeles.

[@jst1man]

But you notice we don't break them down in the US? Wonder why?

[@jamiecottington3966]

Wow turkey need temperature home wot a waste

[@deananthony1000]

@@jst1mandon’t build them in us either !!!!

[@tobymichaels8171]

Our waistlines rejoice at the destruction of those floating shrines of gluttony

[@hjvveight4074]

Watched a documentary about ship breakers there were loads of workers waiting to get jobs there wait near office close by ,anyway so many get killed doing this they seem to be expendable once one dies employ next bloke waiting at office most unexperienced conditions are horrendously dangerouse bosses dont care only thing they care about is hurry up .

[@TheOriginalMarimoChan]

Narration at the end states "it comes on the heels of a crumbling cruise industry"; cruising is not a crumbling industry now (far from it). People after the pandemic went insane with an appetite for cruising. It's so bad now I hear cruise ships frequently overbook. Buying cruise ship stocks must have been awesome during the pandemic.

[@goaliedude32]

I went on my first RCC this year and it was pretty awesome. I'm definitely interested in doing another cruise again soon

[@jst1man]

Yep, but man do the shipyards out some of the most toxic waste. Image the other shipyards that aren't regulated. But then you don't see green peace showing up in those or hearing about them.

[@jamiecottington3966]

These ship have how many rooms ??? Homelessness???

[@lsimon343]

@@jamiecottington3966ok who’s gonna pay for that ??? YOU??? Easy to say something stupid without thinking about the ramifications.

[@markhogan3755]

Vice did a story on the one in Bangladesh. Needless to say, the conditions are much worse

[@SoupyMittens]

@@jamiecottington3966 yeah just let them live in some big rusty and moldy cruise ship with no water or electricity sitting in a noisy ass shipyard. Oh and you have to somehow manage a few thousand drug addicts and just pray that it doesn't turn into one giant crime filled drug den like most giant affordable housing units do...

[@SPPhotography89]

Carnival Fantasy, Carnival Imagination, and Carnival Inspiration Build by: Kvaerner Masa-Yards Helsinki New Shipyard Helsinki, Finland died too young in turkey.

[@josephastier7421]

Casualties of the Great Pandemic of 2020.

[@flashback0978]

and Ecstasy not long after

[@RajenKrishnan]

Worked on ecstasy year 1991

[@brianm2242]

2,000 people. Wait until they start dismantling the 6,000 capacity ships. 😅

[@MikeRoberts1964]

One day The Icon of The Seas will be there, possibly.

[@aaron___6014]

Man, we are so wasteful.

[@alanbiancardi2531]

So?

[@aaron___6014]

@@alanbiancardi2531 you try to answer that question and tell me why it doesn't matter.

[@peep39]

"So we recycle the entire ship, except for the plastic, which we micronize and pour directly into the water, ground, and atmosphere"

[@alanbiancardi2531]

So. Needs to go somewhere

[@EOWS812]

@@alanbiancardi2531 no, you should like the enviornment.

[@AggyThomas]

First cruise was on Fantacy in 94

[@gracindogourgel5995]

Muito bom

[@Jakkaribik1]

Messed Up A Cruise ship could be in use for like 10 Years but gets Removed now.. All that waste

[@snaplash]

I suppose cruise ships are less efficient to scrap because all the valuable materials are covered with decorative trim that has to be removed and disposed of.

[@PatchyJay]

Why not convert to a hotel by the sea ?

[@wurly164]

Buy it and do it. The cruise company did this to take as a write off to offset their loses.

[@deananthony1000]

Would need to be a hotel by the port !!!!!! Parking fees are outrageous so wouldn’t be cheap

[@zackakai5173]

Because it tends to be stupidly expensive to actually do that. Like, significantly more so than just building a conventional hotel. The few ships that have done that successfully are very much the exception rather than the rule.

[@VickersDoorter]

These cruise ships are my idea of hell. Spending two weeks in a gaudy floating holiday village with 3000 fat lardy people in comfy clothes and training shoes, eating their all-inclusive three buffet meals every day and getting pissed.

[@MrSyphen6]

Good stay home then.

[@TheBeninging777]

Glad you think that, one less person to take the island cabana before I can!

[@David-zl6jr]

... Even a "Hotel", "Resort" or "Casino"🤔😎😯

[@prant8998]

It’s all accounting, ships have a real value of zero after twenty years of depreciating. It’s cheaper to scrap them than to refurbish them. If you can’t deprecate them anymore it’s lost revenue to taxes increased maintenance and lost market value to new ships.

[@henrychubbs2823]

If you are curious about cruise line accounting, you may want to read the Carnival Cruise Annual Report. It's a 61 page document full of all kinds of information.

[@llllll-ux2lz]

How can i buy the old gym equipment from these ships?

[@cjgparas3]

Such short sighted solution. Just due to shutdown by pandemic.

[@deananthony1000]

Not at all. The daily running cost of a ship with no passengers is huge.

[@EstCrossings]

Hopefully Aliaga gets more ships instead of Alang.

[@bineetgupta]

Why

[@EstCrossings]

@@bineetgupta They do this properly without recklessly endangering workers and without polluting the surrounding environment especially the asbestos.

[@duanebrankley8984]

Sad to see ships being broken, But I understand the $$$.

[@JamiefromHali]

As if the Indian government cares about the environment.

[@bineetgupta]

Ask the automobile manufacturers in India then you will know 😂 This is not 1980s

[@roryhennessey1983]

I would love to buy one thats in decent condition

[@SoupyMittens]

if you can scrounge up somewhere around 50 million dollars, sure!

[@scottmonfort]

Why not dock or dry dock in a place like Redwood Shores, CA near San Francisco, and turn these into hotels or places for workers to stay? SFO airport area, S.F. docks around the Giants stadium or Oakland have deep port docks ... just tie them off, and use them as hotels, event spaces etc. Why take them apart? Is the steel more valuable than the potential value in the most expensive places to stay and live in the U.S.?

[@andyw6996]

Good idea! But I think the problem was COVID. They made the decision to scrap these ships because COVID was killing cruise lines, and would have had the same effect on your idea to turn them into hotels.

[@stvdagger8074]

There is lot more maintenance in maintaining a ship than a hotel of the same capacity. It has been done sometimes for special occasions (such as Olympics and other sporting events.) but it is too expensive to do for long periods. When they do make long-term offshore housing, they tend to use barges which are much simpler as they do not have engines. Examples of this are the Bibby Stockholm which was used to house construction workers and now is housing illegal immigrants in the UK, the APL 67 class barracks barges used by the US Navy, and the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center which is a floating prison moored off of Riker's Island New York.

[@scottmonfort]

@@stvdagger8074 ... thanks for the reply. I would guess that making a dry dock (so as to use shore power and sewer etc.) is not politically feasible in many areas as well, but I would like to find out more. Aside from the Queen Mary (I think still floating, but in a "pond" with a protective rock wall) ... I can't think of another.

[@wrericdog]

Funny at the end of the video they mention scrap iron and thats the biggest pay off for this old ships!

[@geoffmccoll4640]

Getting a cruise liner into your house in Bangladesh in 2024. I will have all of the toilets for recycling thanks.

[@ptech88]

Wait cops and firefighters always say they have the most dangerous jobs? Why would they lie?

[@tannerleonard8038]

cruise ships? more like snooze ships! amirite fellas

[@jeremyburri6984]

Gold

[@manateemandoesstuff2779]

Thats really sad

[@chrisao1987]

$18,000 a year? That’s plain robbery! Those poor folks.

[@1in6billi0n]

Cost of living is a lot cheaper than where u are. Average rent around my area is about $1500 to $2000. in turkey, it's about $250. Big difference! So 18k is a really good pay compared to average 11k per year as the video clearly showed. Maybe pay attention or learn a lil more about the world's economy lol

[@David-zl6jr]

They should Consider "Senior Housing", "Low income Housing", "Refugee housing" or "Housing"! Likely, may need to combine 2 or so rooms into 1, Yet a POSSIBILITY to consider...

[@mywaterfountain]

I don’t know if the last sentence of this video is correct. Every article I have read states that the cruise industry is actually thriving, not crumbling.

[@deananthony1000]

Video is 2 years old. It was crumbling after covid with children having to be vaccinated. Covid testing before boarding. Different countries having different restrictions. But now it’s better than ever.

[@MikeRoberts1964]

@@deananthony1000 I think it will plateau in a year or two. People were very eager to get back onto ships after the restrictions were eased in 2023.......By 2025-26, I think the industry will level out again.

[@josephastier7421]

Pent up demand after Covid. For a lot of things. Hence inflation.

[@Sammyduo214]

why cant govt buy these ships and convert them to temporarily housing for the homeless. i mean they could do that for the meantime.

[@deananthony1000]

Unless government owns a port the parking charges are outrageous.

[@9TDF]

@@deananthony1000 Plus the cost needed to maintain the ship. Liability if some get hurt. The possibility that scavengers rip tat ship apart for a quick buck i would be bad if the bilge pumps get destroyed. This could be compounded if some break a sea-chest pipe . Plus the the cost of shore power. Plus the possibility of the ship breaking loos of it's mooring with out power and possibly sink

[@KGB-FSB]

As a government employee, I would not give 2 shytes about the homeless

[@joshuaharper4439]

I think destroying these ships is a total waste. These ships really aren’t even that old. They should’ve tried to sell them to other cruise lines or something I couldn’t even work in a Shipard yard like this because I would hate to tear something so beautiful apart.

[@kenc3288]

Terrible script. Speak to an engineer before preparing your scripts.

[@jonathankent5898]

Can you re-upload without the annoying subtitles?

[@PowerOfOne-u4h]

Pretty much zero care for the health and safety of workers. Shameful!

[@mikeoxmaul9675]

What’s the point of building a ship and then taking it apart?

[@wurly164]

Tax right off to keep the company going.

[@deananthony1000]

Same point as why it’s done to cars busses and planes 😂

[@zackakai5173]

Because you typically use the ship for a few decades in between that point? This is like asking why you'd buy a computer only to replace it with a better computer four or five years later.

[@CbassPlaysGames]

AHEM...THEY AREN'T BLOWTORCHES THEY ARE CALLED OXY-ACETYLENE TORCHES. Source I'm a welder/cutter myself.

[@UQRXD]

What do workers get paid? India about 20 cents an hour.

[@matthewcortes3786]

I wonder how much crap theyre getting into the ocean

[@MsEliasc]

in the steel plant, they burn the hundreds of tons poisonous paint from the steelplates,...............

[@warrenmain2544]

How do I get this job

[@geoffmccoll4640]

You will never know where you used dunny and kitchen will come from in 2024?

[@wurly164]

Carnival picked there because it payed the most.

[@Daweisstebescheid]

all manufacturers should be obliged to take back and dispose of their ships after use and not shift the problem to Pakistan, Bangladesh and India

[@joewoodchuck3824]

I no longer like cruises, but it's still a shame all that money down the drain.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

@@randycastillo4530 No.

[@papasquat355]

Down the drain? How many thousands of workers earned a living from construction thru use thru disassembly? The cycle is HUGE for every economy. No shame at all.

[@alanbiancardi2531]

Good more room for us

[@joewoodchuck3824]

@@alanbiancardi2531 If you had been taking cruises some decades back you'd know what I mean. Thanks for the snide remark BTW. Really polite and helpful. That makes you part of the problem that caused cruises to deteriorate through the years.

[@JL-fn6vl]

WHY DON'T THE USE THE LATEST CUTTING EQUIPTMENT LAZORS

[@deananthony1000]

The use Lazors to build new ships. I don’t think they portable so can’t be used to dismantle

[@MrButtonpresser]

Best thing you can ever do with a cruise ship. But then, I don't like cruising.

[@michaelusswisconsin6002]

It’s sad to see any ship being scrapped but you can preserve them all sadly.

[@ahill7099]

i bet the qorkers are sleeping on board the cruise ships ..sleeping in the cabins and playing mini golf

[@SoloSailorDave]

Cruise ships made within the past 40 years do not have asbestos pipe insulation or radium in their gauges... time to do some more homework before you make a video.

[@paulskywarrior6943]

This multi millions of dollars revenue should had in the php this is a great economical assit to a country no wonder why turkey now a day is getting richer they just don"t see the other bright side of it.

[@MasterSumai]

What do they do with all the contents of these ships, like the tables, chairs, refrigerator units, freezers, beds & couches, etc....?????

[@buellb0y]

Didn’t actually watch the video, did you? 🙄

[@heaven-is-real]

Costa Concordia

[@avisiktachakraborty3438]

🚢 ship destroying......how running

[@Silverado21]

Do the Franchise owners sell them or get a tax right off?

[@wurly164]

Both, tax right off for loss

[@mizzmia4407]

Why can't they park them off the coast, floating apartments

[@andrewbrendan1579]

My guess is that the maintenance costs would be enormous. Too the inconvenience of getting people back and forth along with the possible distance from jobs, goods, and services.

[@user-Rocket-Fest]

Ships go to Breakers , they are not or ever Demolished.

[@sethcapili8865]

basically barry island scrapyard

[@john27609]

Crumbling cruise industry? lol. Just check out the Icon of the Seas.

[@deananthony1000]

Video is 2 years old 😂

[@cameronsienkiewicz6364]

I get that ships NEED to be scrapped and recycled, but these ships still had soo much life left .. I don’t understand why they couldn’t just anchor them off the coast in the gulf for a year or two and waited the pandemic (that shouldn’t have even happened in the first place) to end, or at least sold them to a company for a discount so they could be used after the pandemic .. just sell them at a price just above what the scrappers would pay.. that allows the buyer to buy them, and sit on them with enough money to justify the wait

[@deananthony1000]

Then there would be thousands of rooms the new owners could sell cheaper than you selling rooms on your brand new expensive ships. Would be great as floating prisons though.

[@jimtewa8096]

Its the maintenance costs, everything has to be kept running at a low state.

[@9TDF]

@@jimtewa8096 reminds of ss imperator she degraded during ww1 while she sat inactive and Cunard who bought her to replace Lusitania, she was in unacceptable condition and need work.

[@andrewbrendan1579]

A laid up ship is still expensive. Chris Frame on his You Tube channel talked about "hot" and "cold" lay ups. An unused ship with the AC and/or heat along with dehumidifiers is expensive. A ship that is just sitting without those operating will quickly deteriorate.

[@cameronsienkiewicz6364]

@@andrewbrendan1579 I’d argue that spending 500,000,000 million + on a new ship is a lot MORE expensive lol

[@dalemcmurray-hn6sc]

Just like to point out those cruise ships, they could dig front of a beach out in the shape of that ship, have a beautiful rear view of the ocean use those ships as hotels were living accommodations for entire villages they have water processing and sanitation running toilets and showers. It seems kind of stupid just to destroy them actually if you think about it. Those ships not floating have at least 30 more years of life in them especially if they were grounded properly on a beautiful beach seems kind of dumb that nobody’s thought of that❤DALE. It should be a lot nicer house than most of those poor countries have just pointing out a fact they could dig a trench and fill it with water at the ship pull right in the full length almost for 3/4 drop the anchors and then refill that trench back in from front to back with the sand they took out securing it permanently

[@Inferno912]

Sad for me that need stupid EU to make some chnages to make this business better for nature. Like people can't make this from the start...hmm. In places like India this is just one of the worse place to work. Worth to watch doc. about it.

[@aggabus]

Repurpose for cargo

[@pasquale6173]

Stack em together and make a city off the coastline.

[@Perich29]

Cash for clunkers cruise ship, you can receive up to $4.5 Million toward your new fuel effecient ship when you trade in your old cruise ship.

[@robertmiller5644]

Weres the EPA haha 😅

[@stvdagger8074]

In the United States of America. Not in the Republic of Turkey.

[@davidanalyst671]

the EPA is bullcrap, and the Chevron Deference just took away their superpowers

[@ericl2152]

We have millions of unhoused people in the US with governments spending billions to house them, meanwhile we are chopping up the obvious solution to the low income housing crisis.

[@TrueNarrative-n9r]

What does plandemic has in common with beautiful ships ffs

[@johnstudd4245]

They could not operate the ships.

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

Ship breaking is exactly the same as plane & train breaking the only difference being the size of it as ships are moving buildings.

[@DindoLumactod]

@DindoLumactod 0 seconds ago I wish some of this ship be donated to the Philippine government to become a naval ship for the navy or Philippine coast guard

[@laydsimba]

Everything about the cruise industry is so wasteful and destructive to the environment. SMH.

[@forgottenman8629]

pick up the phone buttercup, Venezuela is calling offering you a true socialist paradise...

[@Panamka077]

Hello I would like to sell 3 of my boats who has contact details of the companies?

[@gm-classics]

So wasteful.. people just gotta have “bran new” we are idiots.

[@Fuzzowl]

Why not rent the rooms out to the homeless so they have a home? No just destroy it?

[@ILoveTheAllCreator]

Good thinking, you know they have money for everything but fixing proverty

[@deananthony1000]

Port parking fees are outrageous so wouldn’t work out cheap.

[@9TDF]

All it would take is a few scavengers to rip things apart for stuff like copper for the rent a room idea to go bust and the repair cost is beyond what it's reasonable worth leaving the best option is scrapping. Plus the liability if some one is hurt Plus you would need security for the engine works because the homeless or scavengers damage something important down there like bilge pumps scavengers are unlikely to care that pump is meant to pump out water if the ship springs a leak theirs copper . Something could also go wrong with the ship unmaintained or damage from scavengers could result in a sea chest leak and dead bilge pumps that result in the ship sinking which if you lucky is on an even keel in shallow water, unlucky capsize and or sink in deep water. Now your getting sued family that didn't care some of those people till their dead and there is money to made made for suing , plus the suing from survivors, plus the penetrates for an unmaintained ship penalties , fines if the wreck blocks ship traffic, penetrates if concomitants leak from the wreck, plus the cost of possibly raising the wreck.

[@booch2912]

Just let the homeless squat on em floating in the ocean