Airplane Dumps Waste On Cruise Ship

Well this happened on July 6 2013 aboard the Celebrity Silhouette.

Airplane dumps waste on cruise ship. A Boeing 777 airplane belonging to the Taiwanese airline EVA Air dumped human excreta midair while traveling from Japan to Hawaii. If dumping untreated sewage the ship must be located at least 12 miles offshore moving not less than four knots and using an approved discharge rate. They run on diesel those lights are powered 247 not to mention all of the other equipment.

All one needs to do is to stand up at Shoreline Park and watch the trail of brown fumes coming from the stacks of these cruise ships. To give you an idea it emits about the same amount of sulfur dioxide as 36 MILLION cars. Cruise ships which can be thought of as small cities on the sea routinely discharge thousands of gallons of human sewage a day.

Older ships have in the past dumped human waste into the ocean once the ship was 12 nautical miles away from port however this is a rare occurrence today especially among the major cruise line operators. According to environmental regulatory lead at Royal Caribbean International Nick Rose the idea that cruise lines go round dumping stuff in the ocean is just wrong. Yet cruise ship air emissions are almost entirely unregulated.

Answer 1 of 4. How waste is dealt with on the worlds largest cruise ship. The proposed standards for governing air pollution from ships that are being considered by the EPA are not likely to significantly reduce air pollution from cruise ships.

Plane Accidentally Empties Toilet Tank Over Cruise Ship 23 Injured. A ship that accommodates 4000 passengers dumps around 13 billion gallons of waste into the ocean. Respiratory diseases like asthma.

Royal Caribbean used our nations waters as its dumping ground even as it promoted itself as an environmentally green company the US attorney general Janet Reno said yesterday. This waste not only carries bacteria which are harmful to human health but it also sickens and kills marine life including fish and corals. The 6600 passengers onboard the worlds largest cruise ship produce a lot of trash.