Alaska Inside Passage Cruise Ship Waste Dumping
Cruise ships sailing the Alaskan Inside Passage itinerary usually spend nine to ten hours cruising the inlets of Glacier Bay National Park and stop at a major tidewater glacier.
Alaska inside passage cruise ship waste dumping. ON a typical summer day in Alaska the number of people aboard cruise ships along the Inside Passage from Ketchikan in the south up to Juneau reaches nearly 50000 -- enough to. As a result the amount of wastewater they produce and dump into Southeast Alaskan waters continues to grow. Coast Guard said on Thursday.
Inside Passage Cruising AK United States DAY 8. There are many concerning environmental and human health impacts associated cruise ship wastewater in Alaska. Skagway AK United States.
Even where rules do exist there is little real enforcement. The awakening came in Alaska ten years after the Exxon Valdez spill. There is a park service cabin and human waste disposal unit located there.
With an average of 2000 passengers and crew in every trip the six sources of cruise-ship pollution increase as the industry grows. But it can legally dump raw sewage for most of the thousand kilometres it travels in BC. Alaska is all about the scenery why would you pay to cruise in darkness.
Daylight fades fast losing about 5 mins each day. Alaska Cruise Ship Initiative. If this wastewater is released untreated near shore it becomes a human health concern.
To get to the strip it used to be easy but these days lower. The longer overnight routes that travel from Bellingham Washington to Whittier and beyond can take up to a week to traverse the Inside Passage and across the Gulf of Alaska. In 1998 Royal Caribbean Cruises was fined 18 million for dumping hazardous chemicals into the ocean 65 million of those fines were incurred from dumping off the Alaskan coast and in the Inside Passage.
