Talk:Cruise ship

Cruise ships are an environmental disaster. There needs to be a section on this.

Ugly great things, and with a propensity to flood nice places with hundreds of morons all at once, too :-)

I disagree. They're not ugly. ;-)

Environmental Disaster? I bet you love your car too.

--- Where are statistics on how much food is on a cruise ship?

Added statistics on food consumption. Gsloan 02:26, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Add that the ancient Egyptians had a form of Cruise Ship?

--- Added link to "External Links" "Types of Cruiselines." Removed link to Discount Cruises

anti-piracy acoustic device?

An attack late last year against a luxury cruise liner was repelled by an ear-splitting acoustic device. is this common on luxry cruise ships? [1] StrengthCoach 18:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cruise Ship Terminals

There is no mention of where a cruise goes, or the requirements for larger cruise ships such as superyachts and luxury liners. This is a very important environmental, economic and geographical issue. The installation of Cruise Ship Terminals greatly affects the surrounding environment insofar as depth, sea walls, and habitat for various aquatic organisms such as fish and aquatic vegetation. AQjosh

Environmental Disaster

they are an environmental disaster. they dump raw sewage directly into the ocean (without any treatment) which pollutes waters. they also carry invasive species from one habitat to another. this is a major threat to biodiversity. i was actually looking at the cruise ships article to find out more.

Sounds interesting. I don't know anything about that. Why don't you add what you know, to give people a framework to add more? -- Aaronwinborn 13:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Displacement

The article says there are cruise ships "displacing over 100,000 tons". Is there any passenger ship afloat which displaces 100,000 tons? There are many with GRT of 100,000+ tons, but that is a measure of volume, not displacement. A cruise ship captain once told me that his ship, with GRT of 103,000 tons, displaced less than 50,000 tons.