REVEALED: What it's REALLY like when a Cruise Ship is SCRAPPED?
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ships have been scrapped and recycled for about as long as ships have existed
most ships that have existed have ended their days in the scrapyard
the majority of things that are on board the ship when it's withdrawn from service go with the ship to the scrapyard
preserving a ship in a stationary manner is an expensive process and requires a great deal of insight and funds
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What happens when a cruise ship is scrapped? -- ✓ Join to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgk7SzYDkiXWWBfMqXYH0cA/join 🚢 Cunard History Website: https://www.chriscunard.com/ 📚 Buy books: https://www.chrisframe.com.au/books 👕 Buy cruise merch: https://chrisframeofficial.Teemill.com/ 🛳️ Learn about cruising: https://www.chrisframe.com.au/ 🌐 Frame & Cross Consultancy: https://frameandcross.com/ + Peter Knego @midshipcinema for remarkable video footage used in this video of the ships being scrapped at Alang. + Andrew Sassoi-Walker https://www.solentphotographer.com - Ships have ended their days at scrap yards for about as long as ships have been around. Scrapping a ship can be a dangerous activity that requires skill and experience to be carried out successfully. It allows materials such as steel, aluminium, glass and the like, to be extracted, reused and repurposed. This has led to terms like “it’s been turned into razor blades” becoming common slang for the fate of a ship heading to scrap. For the most part, ships are withdrawn from service as newer vessels come online to replace them. This is a gradual process – with some ships being retained longer than others due to high demand, or delays in the construction of their replacements. Most ships that have existed have ended their days in a scrapyard. This includes some of the most famous passenger liners of all time. While scrap is a common fate for most ships, in recent years cruise ships have been kept in service for longer and longer – thanks to the unprecedented global cruising boom experienced over the past few decades. This isn’t to say cruise ships haven’t been broken up during this time, with older vessels such as SS Norway – the former Pacific Princess “Love Boat” and the former P&O Pacific Sky all being scrapped over the last two decades. Costa Victoria, Carnival Fantasy, Carnival Inspiration and Pullmantur’s Sovereign and Monarch have all been sold for scrap in recent years. But it might surprise you though that the majority of the things on board the ship, such as dining tables and chairs, beds, lighting and carpets are left aboard and either on-sold or recycled by the scrap yard. While the media attention has been grabbed with dramatic footage of cruise ships being driven up onto the beach under their own power – this is not always the case. Norway, for example, was taken under tow owing to her engines being unserviceable after an on board explosion – which was actually the cause of her exit from service. More recently this was seen with the Costa Concordia. Having been partially re-floated, the ship was towed to Genoa in Italy where she was dismantled. My thanks to: Rob Henderson & Doug Cremer for access to the Henderson & Cremer Collection. J. Frame & Vicki Cross for photographs. Others: Ref 1: Sovereign - Piergiuliano Chesi - CC BY 3.0 https://bit.ly/34jnt81 Ref 2: Olympic & Mauretania – Public Domain https://bit.ly/3hkDgaC Ref 3: Libertè being Scrapped – Public Domain / Gerhard Mueller-Debus https://bit.ly/2FCGnfS Ref 4: Stirling Castle - Phyllis Flannagan - CC BY SA 2.0 https://bit.ly/2CM2aAR Ref 5: Sovereign - Piergiuliano Chesi - CC BY 3.0 https://bit.ly/3giBUvq Ref 6: Carnival Fantasy - Boris Kasimov - CC BY 2.0 https://bit.ly/2QaRzSS Ref 7: White Swan Hotel - CC BY SA 4.0 https://bit.ly/31gcwlS Ref 8: SS Norway - Photography.np - CC BY SA 3.0 https://bit.ly/3j4Wvp3 Ref 9: Blue Lady - AKS1189 - CC BY SA 3.0 https://bit.ly/3geAOAP Ref 10: Costa Concordia - Soerfm - CC BY SA 3.0 https://bit.ly/34k7hDN Ref 11: Costa Concordia - G. Jenewein - CC BY SA 4.0 https://bit.ly/3aM0fZm Ref 12: Seawise University – GC9580 – CC BY SA 3.0 https://bit.ly/2Ynxxct Ref 13: Seawise University - Barry Loigman, M.D - CC BY SA 2.5 https://bit.ly/31foDiW Ref 14: SS France Bow - Myrabella - CC BY SA 3.0 https://bit.ly/34jfF6l Ref 15: QE2 Original Funnel - Dashers - CC BY SA 3.0 https://bit.ly/2EfAmFz Ref 16: Queen Mary Hotel - David Jones - CC BY 2.0 https://bit.ly/2EqCrys Aliaga Yard - CC BY SA 4.0 Angelgreat - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AliagaPanoramaMay2021.jpg Thumbnail Pic Grab From Peter Knego Video @midshipcinema #cruisenews #cruiseship #shipscrap #cruiselinenews