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Terrorism effect?
What effect do you think terrorism will have on cruising?
Bill |
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"BillRoddy" wrote in message news:xPwEe.19031$Eo.16669@fed1read04... What effect do you think terrorism will have on cruising? Bill |
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:24:19 -0700, BillRoddy wrote:
What effect do you think terrorism will have on cruising? It will depend on the act and where it happens. A direct hit on a cruise ship would cause a massive downturn in cruising. A direct hit on a cruise ship in American waters might cripple the industry for years. It took the industry two years + to get over the 9/11 hump and that had nothing to do with ships/water. -- "The "decent, average man and woman" are only happy with cookie cutter views matching their own. Controversy offends them." |
My thought on terrorism is live life to the fullest,I was taught when
growing up,your life is planned out for you ,your time to be born,and your time to die.You cannot change it.You just do not always know when, how, or where,or why. surfer e2468 |
Bill:
Your question: What effect do you think terrorism will have upon cruising? My thoughts: 1) Cruise Ships and their terminals are choice targets. Recent attacks on transportation facilities (planes, trains, busses and subways) are most effective from a terrorist standpoint as people sit up and take notice very quickly. 2) Piracy is still extant and ship-boarding techniques are more than adequate to the task. See: http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/001617.html This article also mentions that Al Queda has been involved in piracy and is well versed in the art. 3) Cruise ships are vulnerable. I only have to recall seeing countless tagged bags left by a departed bus at the curbside at FLL cruise terminals with no attendants in sight to realize how easy it would have been to leave an unauthorized bag (using a purloined baggage tag) among them for quick delivery ... and perhaps detonation ... aboard a huge cruise ship. 4) One big incident involving a bomb on a cruise ship would be devastating inasmuch as, unlike passengers on trains and subways who have to get somewhere, most passengers aboard cruise ships can look to other attractions and can forego or postpone their cruises. 5) If I were a cruise line official of an upper category I would be very worried indeed. Aloha |
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Thus spake Chrissy Cruiser :
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:24:19 -0700, BillRoddy wrote: What effect do you think terrorism will have on cruising? It will depend on the act and where it happens. A direct hit on a cruise ship would cause a massive downturn in cruising. A direct hit on a cruise ship in American waters might cripple the industry for years. It took the industry two years + to get over the 9/11 hump and that had nothing to do with ships/water. I have a friend who won't cruise because he's certain that a cruise ship will be the next target. Me, I'm expecting it at a major sporting event. And the three biggest events this year were all in Indianapolis. -- dillon Linux, it's not just an OS, it's a way of life. And a damn fine one, at that. |
In an amazing turn of events, British police, who yesterday seemed to have the most recent terrorist attack under control, today admitted that the man who was shot in the head five times on a crowded "carriage" was killed by mistake.
http://tinyurl.com/e2ltq Al Quida must have had a hoot over that. -- DG in Cherry Hill, NJ "Dillon Pyron" wrote in message ... Thus spake (Surfer E2468) : My thought on terrorism is live life to the fullest,I was taught when growing up,your life is planned out for you ,your time to be born,and your time to die.You cannot change it.You just do not always know when, how, or where,or why. surfer e2468 My mother is 82. About 2 1/2 years ago, she announced that if she was killed in a terrorist attack she's stand at the gates of hell and "kick their asses in". -- dillon Linux, it's not just an OS, it's a way of life. And a damn fine one, at that. |
Ray:
The bags I saw being loaded directly on the ship from the wharf had not gone through any bomb-detecting machine. If one is on board then detonating at the time of inspection would serve the purpose. Anyway, with thousands of bags moved into the ship within a few hours there might be the most perfunctory examination. I would not put too much confidence in that. Baggage handling vulnerabilities or not, the statement that cruise ships are vulnerable still stands. Aloha |
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