You might be interested in a cruise trip this summer. Of course, this will be so much fun, but while you might think that you are breathing clean air in the middle of the sea, you are actually breathing more polluted air. A deadly one, including some of the most toxic chemicals.
You will be swimming in that great pool in the ship, relaxing, but you won’t think of the idea that you are actually cruising on a “great polluter”.
On Tuesday, 6,780 passengers and 2,100 crew will be on the world’s largest cruise ship. This might seem very exciting, except if the fact that this is another “deadly” polluter, did not exist.
“Harmony of the seas” ship will leave Southampton in England and head to the open sea. Residents of Southampton said that they were really glad that the ship is leaving, because they felt it was very polluting and harmful to their health.
According to its owners, “Royal Caribbean”, each of the Harmony’s three four-storey high 16-cylinder Wärtsilä engines will, at full power, burn 1,377 US gallons of fuel an hour, or about 96,000 gallons a day of some of the most polluting diesel fuel in the world.
Transport and Environment group, which is based in Brussels, mentioned on its website that “air pollution from international shipping accounts for around 50,000 premature deaths per year in Europe alone, at an annual cost to society of more than 65 billion billion dollars”.
Leading independent German pollution analyst Axel Friedrich, a single large cruise ship will emit over five tonnes of NOX emissions, and 450kg of ultra fine particles a day, the Guardian has mentioned.
A number of marine pollution analysts have confirmed that “such a large ship will emit sulfur more than a million cars, especially that it emits more than 150 tonnes of fuel per day.
