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Where Have All the Cruise Ships Gone?

Long Time Passing...

As we sailed the NorthWest Providence Channel from Grand Bahama to Great Harbour Cay, we passed a couple of cruise ships.  They behaved oddly.  The first was making about 4 knots, they usually are steaming at closer to 20 knots.  It had no destination listed with its AIS signal.  The second was loafing along at a similar speed.  It's AIS-declared destination was "Adrift."

Then we came upon them all, the mothballed cruise ships, anchored just north of the Great Bahama Bank and a bit east of Great Harbour Cay.

 

 

 

By some reports, they are tearing up the seabed below them.  I suspect that they occasionally weigh anchor on each ship and run it around a bit to keep systems moving or, as those of us of a certain age might say: to blow out the carbon.