Coral Princess and 19 other ships at sea

https://www.whio.com/news/breaking-...-america-florida/dEQChMvOBbhGLxRIc7HgLI/

This Coral Princess cruise left Chile on 5 March and the cruise was essentially cancelled at sea and has been looking to disembark passengers ever since. Argentina allowed only Argentinians off and those with confirmed flights Out that day. Uruguay allowed fuel and provisioning. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil denied disembarkation.

Trying to let some Brits off in Barbados, not clear if that has/is happening. 3-400 of them hoping for a repatriation flight.

Unclear what will happen when the boat hits Fort Lauderdale.

This second article goes through a list of 19 or so ships at sea and their predicaments.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03...e-ships-scramble-to-find-welcoming-port/

Various other cruises are ruined including several 100 day plus World cruises.

Someone could write a book about the pandemic’s impact on ships at sea.

2020 is shaping up to be a historical year to forget.

Let the people disembark in the country of registry. The cruise lines have dodged USGC inspections and US taxes for years. Let Panama, Liberia, Bahamas deal with it. If US citizens are aboard, let the buyer beware, you can't sue in US, so why should the US take them in? I ran a US flagged yacht in the Caribbean and subject to US laws and inspections ANYWHERE in the world the US chose to inspect me. Big Op Ed in the WSJ on Tues saying how unfair the US was to these ships, the writer was the president of Holland America. Register the ships in the US, subject to US inspections and taxes and I will have sympathy.

These ships are the worst thing to happen to the culture of the Caribbean since the Awawks.