The Miami Herald recently helped to quantify the scale of the crew repatriation crisis aboard cruise ships around the world. They report that “two months after the cruise industry shut down amid repeated COVID-19 outbreaks on ships, more than 100,000 crew members remain trapped at sea with little reliable information about what will happen to them.”
When the cruise lines first shut down on March 13, they anticipated being back in service within about a month, much like the SARS pandemic of 2002. Then on April 9, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention banned cruising in U.S. waters through at least late July. The CDC also imposed tough new rules for sending crew home, effectively banning the use of public transportation for crews traveling to or from cruise ships. Other countries also imposed new and tough regulations for repatriation.
Yesterday, we posted about 5 sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt who appeared to have contracted the coronavirus for a second time. That number has now risen to 13. 
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Almost a year ago, two beluga whales, Little White and Little Grey, traveled 6,000 miles from an aquarium in Shanghai around the globe to Iceland to a new home in the 
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A repost appropriate for Mother’s Day.
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As if a pandemic is not enough to worry about, the effects of climate change appear to be delivering some particularly nasty weather this year. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico have been described as being abnormally warm, freakishly warm, and “
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Unless you happened to be very wealthy, hiding out on a boat may not be the best strategy during a pandemic. While 
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