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CRUISE UPDATE: What Are EMPTY CRUISE SHIPS DOING While Cruising Is Suspended ?
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Jan 28, 2025
What are cruise ships doing during the cruise suspension, and also where are they all? I look at the 5 things that cruise ships are actually are doing during the cruise suspension to date It has been 6 months since the cruise suspension took place, what are the almost 300 cruise ships doing and where are they? SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY: Buying my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore Booking your next cruise with CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://bit.ly/TFTBookCruise WATCH THESE POPULAR RECENT VIDEOS: 10 Cabins to Avoid: https://youtu.be/PgTGLma919A European River Cruise Watch-Outs: https://youtu.be/oqhz54wStyk 5 Cruises To Avoid: https://youtu.be/CNiPzK4IRWA Alaska Cruise Need-to-Knows: https://youtu.be/Tn7dpNw5kSI Things Cruise Lines Don’t Want You to Know: https://youtu.be/cs5UKha9ALc Rules Passengers Break Most: https://youtu.be/djZLZ3XV_f0 Things You Can’t Do On A Cruise Any More: https://youtu.be/zas6F4wMD0Q Should You Pay Cruise Gratuities: https://youtu.be/QBYzqxXjEXQ Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 77 cruises at time of making this video. Follow Tips For Travellers on:
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips of Travis I want to talk
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about the five things that cruise ships
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are doing while cruising is suspended
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starting with this one one of the
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biggest things that cruise ships are
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actually doing while cruising a
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suspended is actually sailing all around
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the world to take crew back home when
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cruising shut down in March there were
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literally hundreds of thousands of crew
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members on board ships that needed to
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get home
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either because cruising wasn't starting
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up soon their contracts were ended lots
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of restrictions were put in place
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particular in the United States of
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getting crew off ships and onto planes
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to go home and of course we saw lots of
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countries closing their borders
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so the cruise lines embarked on a
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massive operation to put crew on ships
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from sister lines and sell them all
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around the world they sailed
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particularly to the Philippines for
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example and even today as I record this
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in the Manila Bay there are 19 cruise
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ships still there repatriating crew the
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process once they get to the Philippines
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is relatively complicated and takes a
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while before they can repair it so in
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Manila Bay at this point in time our
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ships like the Queen Elizabeth the
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Sapphire princess the nor dam Viking
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Orion Costa Atlantica Costas arena
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Golden Princess Caledonian sky sea
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Princess Royal Princess the Rotterdam
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Sun Princess Carnival spirit Pacific
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Dorne Pacific Explorer Pacific princess
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sapphire Princess Carnival panorama
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majestic princess there are humongous
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amounts of cruise ships in Manila Bay
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it's quite a sight to behold so one of
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the biggest things the cruise ships are
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doing and have been doing is taking crew
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home so even many months on they are
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still repatriating crew and this is
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gonna still go on for some time
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the second thing they're doing is
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finding somewhere to wait there are
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roughly about 300 ships all around the
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world in the passenger cruising business
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and they're basically finding somewhere
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to hold up and wait if you have a
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favorite ship or even a favorite cruise
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line and you want to know exactly where
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the ships are at any point of time
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there's an app that I use the app is
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called marine traffic it's a really
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great app there's a free version and a
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paid
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version and you can see exactly where
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ships are any point of time so you can
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find out where they are the ships are
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doing a couple of things one they're
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basically finding a place where they can
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wait
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and also they starting to form in little
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clusters around the world finding places
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where they think they're going to be
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able to start cruising again so let's
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take a look at where some of those
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clusters are obviously one of the
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biggest clusters of all is around the
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sort of Miami Fort Lauderdale area which
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of course are two of the really biggest
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cruise ports in the world and also
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you've got Port Canaveral just up the
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coast there we're seeing lots of lots of
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ships congregating around this areas and
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Norwegian cruise lines Carnival Cruise
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Lines MSC Cruise Lines Holland America
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and also of course
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well Caribbean cruise line are all
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having ships in this area and again
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looking at the app I count at least 20
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or 30 ships and what they do is they're
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mostly hanging around the sort of
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Bahamut area either just added sea or
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actually using their private islands as
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a way of giving the crew some respite
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and some time on land and then of course
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head occasionally into port to restock
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another key area where they're
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congregating is in the UK so outside
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Southampton and even down to Dover
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you're gonna find lots of pier no ship
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sort of the Cunard ships find saga ships
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mirela ships once you get up to Scotland
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you'll find more of the Fred Olsen ships
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you'll find in fact even some of the
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Azamara ships and we've also seen more
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recently in Newcastle one or two ships
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particular from pino appearing there so
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in the UK there's another whole bunch of
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ships Italy which is another big key
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cruising area and home for places like
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Costa Wheesung ships again congregating
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around the Italian coast one of the
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other clusters of ships is ships that
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were based in Australia Australia closed
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all of their waters to cruise ships even
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those that were harmful to their and
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most of those moved off to Manila so
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basically they're sitting out at sea
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largely speaking and waiting and so on
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to form in little clusters and as soon
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as watch those ships that are clustered
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near those big cruise ports because
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that's probably sign of the ships their
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light has come on tap kind of much
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earlier than other ships the next thing
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the cruise ships are doing and cruise
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lines are doing to the cruise ships is
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try to drive down the car
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of keeping those ships glowing it's
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extremely expensive to keep a cruise
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ship ready to get into service I saw
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numbers up to like 100 million dollars
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per ship to keep them ticking over at
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the beginning of the shutdown so what
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the cruise lines are doing on those
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cruise ships is that moving them for
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what's known as a hot lay up to a cold
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lay up in a codelab
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is where they're basically wine down the
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ship so it's not ready to go into
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service really quickly so they're moving
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into cold lay off because that is much
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cheaper for them to do and they have
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been through that process and they're
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still going through that process well of
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course they're doing is just ongoing
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maintenance making sure that there's
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kind of daily maintenance going on to
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keep the ships up to scratch and also to
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keep the crew
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you're still on they're kind of active
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and busy one of the things that they're
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not doing to cruise ships though is
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moving them into drydock
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so a whole bunch of ships would you to
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go through dry docks and upscale
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celebrity of course had their whole
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celebrity upgrade process or Caribbean
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we're going through a horrible upgrades
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of their ships pretty much all of those
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dry docks have been postponed for quite
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a long period of time so they're not
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spending a lot of money on big upgrades
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on ships that were due to be planned so
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those are things that are not happening
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on cruise ships it's basically basic
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maintenance the next thing that they are
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doing though is making some of the
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protocol changes and getting ready for
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return to cruising one of the most
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consistent things I'm seeing across all
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of the cruise lines announcing is
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upgrades to the ventilation system where
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they're putting in various systems which
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will purify the air much more or they're
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changing their ventilation and
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air-conditioning systems so they're
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bringing much more fresh air because
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because there's lots of concerns about
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the role of ventilation air conditioning
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in spread of the virus and so what the
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cruise lines are doing because I know
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that's a big issue and is a big
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discussion point is they're installing
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kind of air purifiers into their systems
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even on new ships like scarlet lady has
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had that whole system upgraded and
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changed or for some of the older ships
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they're upgrading all of those and we've
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seen that pretty consistent across all
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of the cruise lines the other thing that
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cruise ships are doing while they are in
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suspension and unable to cruise is make
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sure that those crew that do remain on
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the ship are kept busy occupied and are
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kept as positive as can be so there's
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the physical medical side where you'll
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find many of
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we'll have twice daily temperature
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checks they've all been given
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accommodation private accommodation so
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they're not sharing accommodation this
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is an amount of social distancing on
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board to try and make sure that the crew
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that are on board stay healthy and
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there's no outbreak on board one of the
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big challenges our crew facing of course
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is much more mental health challenges
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and we've seen some very unfortunate
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incidents where crew have got really
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really desperate and so one of the key
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things the cruise lines are now trying
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to do on their cruise ships is to try
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and run a happy ship and a ship which
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has much more counseling and help for
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crew because clearly if you're stuck on
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board you're away from home for very
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long time and there's no early
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indications of when you can get back to
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work when you can get home that is
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putting enormous pressure on crew and
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we're seeing more and more tivity around
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what cruise ships are doing to try and
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keep crew not only physically and
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medically happily but also mentally
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happy cruise ships are pretty much not
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able to sail we are seeing a few little
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pockets popping up where Hurtigruten has
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a few ships now setting in Norway the to
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see dream ships are coming on stream you
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seeing one or two river cruise ships
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start and of course we're seeing lots of
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people hoping to start in July and
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August like on crews are hoping to start
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up again because they have smaller ships
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under 250 passengers so they don't fall
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under the CDC rules so there's quite a
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lot of things that are going on on
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cruise ships mostly it's around waiting
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positioning and getting ready for the
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day when cruising starts again hope you
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found this interesting and helpful I
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have loads more videos packed full of
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don't you watch another one of those
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