{"id":10665,"date":"2025-10-29T16:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10665"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:54:23","slug":"covid-2020-where-cruise-ships-went-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/29\/covid-2020-where-cruise-ships-went-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid 2020: Where cruise ships went to die"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20251027-covid-2020-where-cruise-ships-went-to-die\">BBC<\/a> <strong>When Covid-19 took hold, cruise ship operators struggled to stay afloat. One option was to scrap older vessels \u2013 giving one photographer a unique perspective.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Covid-19 spread at the start of 2020, the modern, globalised economy began to shudder to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shops shut their doors. Factory production lines grew silent. The world&#8217;s vast armada of airliners&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"stayed stationary in quiet airports, opens in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/interactive.aviationtoday.com\/avionicsmagazine\/august-september-2020\/the-first-100-days-how-airlines-responded-to-the-covid-19-crisis\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stayed stationary in quiet airports<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 at least for the most part. And the cruise ship industry started to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-53720419\">close down operations<\/a>&nbsp;to avoid spreading the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Covid-19 spread remorselessly. Within weeks the cruise industry faced the spectre of much more serious challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By March, anxiety over cancelled cruises was replaced with the very real possibility of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-52182509\">entire cruise lines going under<\/a>&nbsp;unless they could cut costs. One of the simplest ways to do this was to prune their fleets \u2013 by sending the oldest ships to the scrapyard.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"iY U  w ol jMcuUtP JRti\">iY U  w ol jMcuUtP JRti<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC When Covid-19 took hold, cruise ship operators struggled to stay afloat. One option was to scrap older vessels \u2013 giving one photographer a unique perspective. As Covid-19 spread at the start of 2020, the modern, globalised economy began to shudder to a halt. Shops shut their doors. Factory production lines grew silent. The world&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10666,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions\/10666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}