How $300 Million Cruise Ships Are Demolished | Big Business 

The carnival imagination was the first ship I worked on as a musician…such a bittersweet feeling

People don’t seem to understand. If the cruise line couldn’t afford to keep them in basic operation, what makes anyone think someone else can afford to use them as a housing unit? Basic operational cost is extremely high

This is a really nice breakers yard. In other places it's barefoot 14 year olds running the cutting torches.

This Whole industry needs to ensure that employees are paid fairly and given PROPER PPE for the dangerous work done.

I wonder what the profit margin is on a 100,000+ ton cruise ship with scrap steel at $320/ton (US prices). Seems like a steal for some steel to me.

Those are absolutely beautiful ships and I hate seeing them being ripped apart like this.

How can i buy the old gym equipment from these ships?

So heartbreaking to see my favorite ships like this. Fantasy class ships were my favorite. The others are so big & too many people. Fantasy was our 1st cruise and took 2 on Inspiration.

Watching years of people's happiness and dreams torn apart is very depressing. All the memories those walls helped build now torn apart. I was on Carnival Sensation once and now it is going through this year long tortureeous death is very sad. 😢

I remember cruising on the Inspiration as a kid with my famility back in 2006. Good times but super strange feeling to see it in this video about to be dismantled

Good! More steel for Turkey which can do the work in a safety regulation-compliant manner to EU standards. It would be cheap enough to add safety harnesses and respirators though. (Torch work itself is not difficult, I've done plenty, but breathing the fumes is unwise.) This is a far more professional operation than those at Alang etc. Good (temporary) riddance to the cruise industry which is mostly waste, but it will rebound as always and higher vessel turnover means more modern, safer vessels replacing old ships.

Carnival Fantasy, Carnival Imagination, and Carnival Inspiration Build by: Kvaerner Masa-Yards Helsinki New Shipyard Helsinki, Finland died too young in turkey.

These cruise ships are my idea of hell. Spending two weeks in a gaudy floating holiday village with 3000 fat lardy people in comfy clothes and training shoes, eating their all-inclusive three buffet meals every day and getting pissed.

"So we recycle the entire ship, except for the plastic, which we micronize and pour directly into the water, ground, and atmosphere"

Man, we are so wasteful.

Hard to see the Sovereign class ships there for scrapping. Sovereign of the Seas was groundbreaking when first launched.

Why can't they park them off the coast, floating apartments

is there an online site where they auction off what they take from the ship that an every buyer can buy?

I get that ships NEED to be scrapped and recycled, but these ships still had soo much life left .. I don’t understand why they couldn’t just anchor them off the coast in the gulf for a year or two and waited the pandemic (that shouldn’t have even happened in the first place) to end, or at least sold them to a company for a discount so they could be used after the pandemic .. just sell them at a price just above what the scrappers would pay.. that allows the buyer to buy them, and sit on them with enough money to justify the wait

Yep, but man do the shipyards out some of the most toxic waste. Image the other shipyards that aren't regulated. But then you don't see green peace showing up in those or hearing about them.

"Good money". 18k a year for the toughest job ever where the risk of death or injury is ultra high. SMH. Well I guess as long as the mega corporations make there money and we can cram our fat asses into an overfilled floating boat and call it a vacation what the hell, right? Humanity makes me sick

Damn, the covid cost billion for the cruise industry

Watched a documentary about ship breakers there were loads of workers waiting to get jobs there wait near office close by ,anyway so many get killed doing this they seem to be expendable once one dies employ next bloke waiting at office most unexperienced conditions are horrendously dangerouse bosses dont care only thing they care about is hurry up .

I don’t know if the last sentence of this video is correct. Every article I have read states that the cruise industry is actually thriving, not crumbling.

Heartbreaking to watch the destruction of those nice ships

Such short sighted solution. Just due to shutdown by pandemic.

Why not dock or dry dock in a place like Redwood Shores, CA near San Francisco, and turn these into hotels or places for workers to stay? SFO airport area, S.F. docks around the Giants stadium or Oakland have deep port docks ... just tie them off, and use them as hotels, event spaces etc. Why take them apart? Is the steel more valuable than the potential value in the most expensive places to stay and live in the U.S.?

Sad, I ve sailed multiple times each on 3 of the 5 cruise ships in this video. Inspiration, Imagination, and Monarch of the seas when it was with royal. All from Loas Angeles.

What do they do with all the contents of these ships, like the tables, chairs, refrigerator units, freezers, beds & couches, etc....?????

2,000 people. Wait until they start dismantling the 6,000 capacity ships. 😅

How do I get this job

What a shame. How awesome would it be to dock these permanently and turn them into housing or condos for people. This is such a waste.

Muito bom

Just like to point out those cruise ships, they could dig front of a beach out in the shape of that ship, have a beautiful rear view of the ocean use those ships as hotels were living accommodations for entire villages they have water processing and sanitation running toilets and showers. It seems kind of stupid just to destroy them actually if you think about it. Those ships not floating have at least 30 more years of life in them especially if they were grounded properly on a beautiful beach seems kind of dumb that nobody’s thought of that❤DALE. It should be a lot nicer house than most of those poor countries have just pointing out a fact they could dig a trench and fill it with water at the ship pull right in the full length almost for 3/4 drop the anchors and then refill that trench back in from front to back with the sand they took out securing it permanently

First cruise was on Fantacy in 94

Ship-breaking depresses me for some reason.

Im sure all these employees are paid accordingly to this type of hazardous work environment right?..... lmao

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The day of judgment is decisive and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill or sleep or eat or be healed in his stead, 105 so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall any one lay a burden on another; for then every one shall bear his own righteousness and unrighteousness." 2 Esdras 7:75 //////////////////////

It’s all accounting, ships have a real value of zero after twenty years of depreciating. It’s cheaper to scrap them than to refurbish them. If you can’t deprecate them anymore it’s lost revenue to taxes increased maintenance and lost market value to new ships.

Narration at the end states "it comes on the heels of a crumbling cruise industry"; cruising is not a crumbling industry now (far from it). People after the pandemic went insane with an appetite for cruising. It's so bad now I hear cruise ships frequently overbook. Buying cruise ship stocks must have been awesome during the pandemic.

Funny at the end of the video they mention scrap iron and thats the biggest pay off for this old ships!

Why not convert to a hotel by the sea ?

@DindoLumactod 0 seconds ago I wish some of this ship be donated to the Philippine government to become a naval ship for the navy or Philippine coast guard

I would love to buy one thats in decent condition

I no longer like cruises, but it's still a shame all that money down the drain.

Best thing you can ever do with a cruise ship. But then, I don't like cruising.

$18,000 a year? That’s plain robbery! Those poor folks.

Hopefully Aliaga gets more ships instead of Alang.

I think destroying these ships is a total waste. These ships really aren’t even that old. They should’ve tried to sell them to other cruise lines or something I couldn’t even work in a Shipard yard like this because I would hate to tear something so beautiful apart.

What’s the point of building a ship and then taking it apart?

Can you re-upload without the annoying subtitles?

Wait cops and firefighters always say they have the most dangerous jobs? Why would they lie?

cruise ships? more like snooze ships! amirite fellas

Crumbling cruise industry? Booming now again.

Hello I would like to sell 3 of my boats who has contact details of the companies?

Costa Concordia

Messed Up A Cruise ship could be in use for like 10 Years but gets Removed now.. All that waste

Isn’t it amazing, first world countries like Germany, Sweden, Finland create these monsters in a highly regulated, safe environment, but the third world has to dismantle them in a largely unregulated environment. Way to go all you cruisers 🥴😁🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣

Carnival picked there because it payed the most.

🚢 ship destroying......how running

Terrible script. Speak to an engineer before preparing your scripts.

Weres the EPA haha 😅

What do workers get paid? India about 20 cents an hour.

Ships go to Breakers , they are not or ever Demolished.

Why have we given our shit to other countries…

Sick evil industry 👎🏼

Cash for clunkers cruise ship, you can receive up to $4.5 Million toward your new fuel effecient ship when you trade in your old cruise ship.

I wonder how much crap theyre getting into the ocean

Ship breaking is exactly the same as plane & train breaking the only difference being the size of it as ships are moving buildings.

... Even a "Hotel", "Resort" or "Casino"🤔😎😯

WHY DON'T THE USE THE LATEST CUTTING EQUIPTMENT LAZORS

Do the Franchise owners sell them or get a tax right off?

Stack em together and make a city off the coastline.

basically barry island scrapyard

I’d be more concerned about the workers getting sick from these floating virus spreaders than I would about the asbestos in them!

why cant govt buy these ships and convert them to temporarily housing for the homeless. i mean they could do that for the meantime.

Sad for me that need stupid EU to make some chnages to make this business better for nature. Like people can't make this from the start...hmm. In places like India this is just one of the worse place to work. Worth to watch doc. about it.

It’s sad to see any ship being scrapped but you can preserve them all sadly.

Wow o wow unbelievable what the hell turkey is in crisis with homelessness and these fit for purpose ship WOULD have solved that problem wot are these company's thinking of the Government can put sanctions on Billionaire Yachts but so why can't they do the same to these Cruise ships witch would make amazing temporary homes wow wow wow

They should Consider "Senior Housing", "Low income Housing", "Refugee housing" or "Housing"! Likely, may need to combine 2 or so rooms into 1, Yet a POSSIBILITY to consider...

Repurpose for cargo

What does plandemic has in common with beautiful ships ffs

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As if the Indian government cares about the environment.

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Just let the homeless squat on em floating in the ocean

Crumbling cruise industry? lol. Just check out the Icon of the Seas.

Cruise ships made within the past 40 years do not have asbestos pipe insulation or radium in their gauges... time to do some more homework before you make a video.

If these people had any clue what goes on at these places for environmental and labor. Lolol

Why not rent the rooms out to the homeless so they have a home? No just destroy it?

What a waste… been on 3 cruises in my life. That was enough.

All because of the WEF.

Why don't shey scape ships in the UK instead they send them overseas

... Possibly a Low, Medium or High Security Prison! A Hospital, a Substance Abuse Recovery!🤔😎😯

Everything about the cruise industry is so wasteful and destructive to the environment. SMH.

Instead of demolish them. Why not park them and put them out of sailing commisssion and make apartments out of them. Or condos.

Boring

What a waste of workers time, the workers who built them and the parts

They could use these to house the homeless.

Kill the ships becaurse of the pandemic? Why? Just give the ships some snootpaper and fever medication. Sorry😂