Cruise ships

[masterofnone]

I see on ais ,loads of them drifting around doing nowt, could we not raft them up somewhere useful. Say Excel, liverpool, etc you get the picture and utilise them as a floating hospital.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Maybe but looks to be faster to build them on land than repurpose cruise liner cabins e.g. running oxygen lines would be hard to place into the cabins. Also workflow efficiency between cabins would be far lower than the semi open plan solution of big spaces. I reckon it would also be a marketing disaster, selling cabin spaces on a former plague ship

 

[PhillM]

Could be used as floating hotels for the nhs staff drafted in from miles away to serve in the temporary hospitals. Park one at say, excel, me I. Liverpool and one in Glasgow and you have all the hotel rooms you need.

 

[newtothis]

Could be used as floating hotels for the nhs staff drafted in from miles away to serve in the temporary hospitals. Park one at say, excel, me I. Liverpool and one in Glasgow and you have all the hotel rooms you need.

The last thing we need now is for a whole bunch of nurses to come down with norovirus. ?

 

[NormanS]

Could be used as floating hotels for the nhs staff drafted in from miles away to serve in the temporary hospitals. Park one at say, excel, me I. Liverpool and one in Glasgow and you have all the hotel rooms you need.

Do you not think there are not enough idle hotels already?

 

[smert]

Carnival has already offered the use of their ships for this purpose.

 

[TLouth7]

A friend of mine works on a cruise ship. Despite having been at sea with no cases for over 14 days they have just been told to isolate in their own cabins.

The big problem is that no one is letting these ships dock, and if they did the staff would not necessarily be able to get home.

They have also been paid off despite not being able to get off the ship.

 

[PilotWolf]

A friend of mine works on a cruise ship. Despite having been at sea with no cases for over 14 days they have just been told to isolate in their own cabins.

The big problem is that no one is letting these ships dock, and if they did the staff would not necessarily be able to get home.

They have also been paid off despite not being able to get off the ship.

A friends son was sent home. He is in isolation at their cabin - a place I would love to be isolated at - but previous risk to them if he’d gone home.

W.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

A friend of mine works on a cruise ship. Despite having been at sea with no cases for over 14 days they have just been told to isolate in their own cabins.

The big problem is that no one is letting these ships dock, and if they did the staff would not necessarily be able to get home.

They have also been paid off despite not being able to get off the ship.

Same goes for the entire merchant fleet. There's another thread that covers this in some detail: Yacht 'Sundance' in the time of Corona

 

[wallacebob]

Eight crew members of cruise ship have Covid-19.