Global Cruise Activist Network

Op-Ed: Santa Barbara City Council Turns Blind Eye to Cruise Ship #Pollution edhat.com/news/op-ed-city-co… "Anti-cruise ship protests in port cities are growing! Even residents of cities that depend heavily on tourism are concerned about the hazards that #cruise ships bring with them. Here are some of them:  Bar Harbor, Maine; Juneau, Alaska;  Amsterdam, Barcelona, Italy, France and Norway. These cities and countries, along with scientists, realize that cruise ships bring environmental pollution and and an increase in health hazards to the cities that they visit.  Cruise ships burn bunker oil, the most polluting fossil fuel of all and the most dangerous to lungs and hearts, increasing the risks of asthma, lung disease and cancer . . . They continue to spew poison while their engines idle during their visits. Are the local environment and the health of the people that you are sworn to protect and serve of no concern to you? Cruise ships burn the most lethal fuel of any other fossil fuel: Bunker Oil. It is the dirtiest fuel of them all!" #CruiseNews

In passing the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2010 (CVSSA), Congress found that “serious incidents, including sexual assault and the disappearance of passengers at sea, have occurred on cruise vessel voyages,” and that “passengers lack adequate understanding of their vulnerability to crime on board cruise vessels . . . “ transportation.gov/mission/s… The CVSSA mandates that reports of shipboard criminal activity be reported to the @FBI. In turn, the @USDOJ must disclose the crimes to the public in quarterly reports (see below). Yet, the DOJ has not disclosed a single shipboard crimes this year (2023)! The last crime reported was in 2022 for the period Dec. 1st to Dec. 31st. #Cruise lines, which have a higher per capita sexual assault rate than businesses ashore, & @CLIAGlobal, which fought against the CVSSA legislation, love keeping crime statistics secret and the public in the dark. When will the U.S. travelling public finally earn of the crimes which have occured on cruise ships this year?

#Cruise executives, and an occasional cruise ship engineer following the company's talking points, will try to convince you not to worry about "white smoke." Its just harmless "water vapor" they'll say. But don't be fooled. cruiselawnews.com/2019/09/ar…