Dumping Sewage in the Ocean.
- 5 January 2012 10:34145631Several of us on here signed up to an online petition a while back...we have had a number of mailings since. here is one thats very relevent to us here in Dover.
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Tell Cruise Ships to Stop Dumping Filth Into Our Oceans!‏
Hi Paul,
Have you been to the beach lately? Remember the great feeling of dunking your face beneath the waves? What about when you think about the 21,000 pounds of untreated sewage that the average cruise ship dumps every day, sometimes less than three miles from shore? »
Even if you don't live near a coast, the cumulative pollution from cruise ships affects us all.
Tell cruise ships that it's time to clean up their act. »
Every single day, a single ship dumps one ton of garbage, 6,400 gallons of oily bilge water, and 25 pounds of batteries, fluorescent lights, medical wastes, and expired chemicals into our oceans. And that's just one ship. »
The Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) recently singled out AIDA and TUI, two German cruise lines, for being especially environmentally filthy. It's time for them to update their filtration systems to stop spewing waste into our oceans.
Tell AIDA and TUI to help pave the way to make cruise lines better for our oceans. »
Thanks for taking action!
Kathleen
ThePetitionSite
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The AIDA Ships come here to Dover, are making regular sailings from the Port of Dover and are doing so next year ( or I mean this year 2012!) too...
Should we care?? or just turn a blind eye??email: dover7@msn.com - 5 January 2012 10:41145632certainly should care paul, those figures are disgusting.
another reason for me to delay my channel swimming attempt.
rather surprised that two german cruise lines are the worst offenders, the country has a good record in environmental matters. - 5 January 2012 10:49145636We should care Big Time! Shocking to read that cruise ships still dump their untreated waste in our oceans, especially in these environmentally aware times
I agree with Howard, I would have thought the germans would be the least offenders given their green credentials. - 5 January 2012 12:14145667On the 'German' topic.
Their figures for being so environmentally friendly could only suffer if these ships took their waste home and then there is also the cost.
Are there port-side facilities in Dover going unused at present?Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 6 January 2012 09:32145830Im afraid one doesnt like to dwell too long on the topic of sewage,
but the daily ferries must need emptying too but one prefers not to think about all that too deeply. Presumably there is a method for extracting same as I would imagine its not all dumped into the sea...I think it was Diana who mentioned previously that those smaller ships floating around the harbour with the long nozzles sticking out do the emptying but I dont know for sure.
But one hopes it isnt all emptied at sea.email: dover7@msn.com - Ross Miller
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6 January 2012 09:41145832There are facilities on the Eastern Dock for pumping out the tanks on the ferries also there is a vessel that provides this service to visiting cruise ships"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi - 6 January 2012 09:49145834Are oil tankers still allowed to flush out their tanks at sea?
- 6 January 2012 11:34145843Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 6 January 2012 17:56145898This might be the vessel Ross that you referred to earlier above. Might be doing the necessary on the extracting sewage situation.
I think ED will have told me earlier what this little ship is for but head and sieve nowadays. Both ships in shot were in action today as you can see, the Spirit of Britain now back on serious duty after her layoff.
email: dover7@msn.com - 6 January 2012 18:14145900Is the smaller vessel not the , SS Soup Du Jour?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Brian Dixon
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6 January 2012 19:49145910no its the mv carp catcher.
- 6 January 2012 20:15145918The two ships that you often see bobbing about in the Harbour are both bunker ships
which were used to re fuel P & O and Seafrance. They are called the CLIPPER BRUNELLO
and Coral Water.
When not here they can be found in their home port of Rotterdam... - Keith Sansum1
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6 January 2012 21:33145952doesnt seem very healthy to meALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - Brian Dixon
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7 January 2012 09:05146007kieth,think of it as fish food.
- 7 January 2012 10:08146015Thanks for that info Vince. Yes I think the small ship photographed there is the Coral Water. Was trying to see its name yesterday through binoculars yesterday and I thought it said the Coral Writer but I knew that sounded odd.
The two ships mentioned are like twins, we did feature them on a thread a while ago.email: dover7@msn.com - 7 January 2012 12:47146038Remember PaulB, you can look at www.marinetraffic.com and it will tell you what nearby ships are, it's almost real-time data.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 7 January 2012 15:23146057I wonder what strange tint the dawn light would have reflected off an expanse of urine in the channel?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Brian Dixon
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7 January 2012 15:27146059tom,a mellow yellow tint.
- 8 January 2012 16:50146213Im not obsessed by sewage...honest! but the topic keeps following me around.
This notice popped unsolicited into view this morning up at the marina. Took a pic of it and the bridge over...all looks clean and free flowing. Very grey morning.
email: dover7@msn.com - 8 January 2012 17:06146215Shock! Horror!! But no, I best clean my screen. Not a lot one can do for those floaters behind the eye though.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
