I am going on a cruise next week.
Cruises are great. Cruise liners can carry thousands of people to sea.
Yes and they are so fun unless someone gets sick.
These ocean liners usually have a lot of resources like food, fuel, and medicine in case that happens. Sometimes emergencies can be very, very problematic, though.
It would not be fun to be sick on a cruise ship, unable to enjoy what you paid for and looked forward to.
Cruise ship pollution in the United States
The cruise ship industry is a significant and growing contributor to the United States economy, providing more than $32 billion in benefits annually and generating more than 330,000 U.S. jobs, but also making the environmental impacts of its activities an issue to many. Although cruise ships represent a small fraction of the entire shipping industry worldwide, public attention to their environmental impacts comes in part from the fact that cruise ships are highly visible and in part because of the industry’s desire to promote a positive
Ocean liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (e.g., for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships).
Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes called "liners". The category does not include ferries or other vessels engaged in short-sea trading, nor dedicated cruise ships where the voyage itself, and not transportation, is the prime purpose of the trip