Nome, for example, has just 18 hospital beds. The ship will pass through parts of the Arctic with very small towns with few facilities, hospital beds and medical supplies. Lack of roads and unreliable cellphone reception on the path also pose a problem for the ship’s voyage, according to RT.
“Most cruise ships that get here have passenger manifests of 100, maybe 150. “If something were to go wrong it would be very, very bad,” Nome, Alaska, Mayor Richard Beneville told The Guardian. The ship will be 820 feet in length and 105.6 feet wide, according to Crystal Cruises. It’s the ship’s massive size and the possibility of higher-volume traffic that have raised flags for the coast guard, government officials and local communities that try to navigate an Arctic route without year-round ice. (MORE: Cold Weather Spurs Arctic Ozone Hole Concerns)ĭespite these possible hazards, the opulent vessel is scheduled to set sail in August 2017 from Seward, Alaska, and it will travel through the Bering Strait and Northwest Passage to New York City over a 32-day period. The Crystal Serenity luxury cruise ship, pictured above, is scheduled to sail through the Northwest Passage in the Arctic in August 2017. This loss of sea ice due to climate change has caused an increase in shipping traffic – and coast guard rescue missions, incidentally – as well as increased the risk of oil spills, accidents and pollution. Just last week it was reported that the annual Arctic sea ice maximum hit its lowest levels ever, marking the second year in a row that the winter maximum ice extent set a record low. and Canadian coast guard and government officials will walk operators and rescue officials of the Crystal Serenity luxury cruise ship through the scenario of rescuing hundreds of passengers up to 1,000 miles from the nearest coast guard base, according to The Guardian.
and Canada coast guard officials are preparing for the worst – namely, a mass rescue of the sinking vessel in frigid waters. After climate change contributed to the lowest level of Arctic sea ice ever recorded, a luxury cruise ship bigger than the infamous Titanic is scheduled to travel through the Arctic next summer.
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