⚠️IMPORTANT WARNING FOR ALL DIVERS ⚠️ Fast-spreading lethal disease (potentially SCTLD) has reached Bonaire’s reefs.

[Jake 10]

and the ecosystem suffers... Cruise don't get-it or don't understand that reefs and colorful fish are some of the reason why tourists come to these islands...

 

[formernuke]

and the ecosystem suffers... Cruise don't get-it or don't understand that reefs and colorful fish are the reason why tourists come to these islands...

They understand, they don't care it's about making money.

 

[Jake 10]

They understand, they don't care it's about making money.

unfortunate

 

[Eric802]

If you actually read the article "cruise ship poop" isn't mentioned. It's ballast water that's suspected, and that's cargo ships. The article was actually amended at one point to remove "waste water" from the title.

Now back to your regularly-scheduled cruise-ship bashing.

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

How big of a tanker truck would one need to carry all that poop? And where does it go? I picture the size of some of the cruisers I've seen on Coz and their corresponding turd size... dear lord.

And with the floating AYCE gut-stuffing food orgies you need to include feeding frequency.

 

[dlofting]

If you actually read the article "cruise ship poop" isn't mentioned. It's ballast water that's suspected, and that's cargo ships. The article was actually amended at one point to remove "waste water" from the title.

Now back to your regularly-scheduled cruise-ship bashing.

That would make sense as ships take on and discharge ballast water to compensate for buoyancy changes, thereby moving sea water from one place to another. Of course this would also spread the disease.

 

[Jake 10]

If you actually read the article "cruise ship poop" isn't mentioned. It's ballast water that's suspected, and that's cargo ships. The article was actually amended at one point to remove "waste water" from the title.

Now back to your regularly-scheduled cruise-ship bashing.

the spread of SCTLD coincide with the island re-opening Cruise Ship itineraries in Feb/Mar 2023. While cargo ships have continued to deliver goods to and from Bonaire through the pandemic without any SCTLD effects during that time

 

[Eric802]

And yet SCTLD was spreading just fine around the Caribbean throughout COVID, when there were no cruise ships visiting, and in places where cruise ships just don't go.

Cruise ships have enough issues, no need to make them the boogie man for everything.

 

[Sevenrider860]

the spread of SCTLD coincide with the island re-opening Cruise Ship itineraries in Feb/Mar 2023. While cargo ships have continued to deliver goods to and from Bonaire through the pandemic without any SCTLD effects during that time

I was there in November 2022 and there were plenty of cruise ships making stops. It is not like cruise ships just started returning to Bonaire in Feb/Mar 2023.

 

[tursiops]

could there be a correlation between the Siphonophore, the Cruise Ship, and the coral dying?

You are espreading rumors, here and on Facebook.