| It used to be that ocean-crossing vessels | | | | to the Caribbean, to Alaska, and around |
| were the primary means to getting people from | | | | Mexico. |
| place to place at sea. Now they are hardly | | | | |
| used and instead replaced with cruise ships. | | | | A Relaxing Journey |
| Just like the ocean-crossing vessel, the | | | | |
| cruise ship takes its time going across the | | | | Over time the popularity of the cruise ship |
| ocean. Since air travel is so much faster, | | | | causes the cruise industry to start using |
| crossing by water is used more for relaxation | | | | larger cruise ships. Now being on a cruise |
| and enjoyment rather than as quick | | | | ship is like staying in a floating hotel |
| transportation. | | | | considering most cruise ships can hold about |
| | | | 3000 passengers. This number doesn't even |
| To raise interest in the cruise ship as | | | | include the large staff needed to take care |
| transportation, the ocean-going vessels would | | | | of the passengers and the cruise ship. When |
| leisurely take people on southern cruises in | | | | you really dish out the money, you can get on |
| the winter. The first of the trans-Atlantic | | | | a cruise ship that has more crew members than |
| ships to take people on southern cruises | | | | passengers. |
| during the cold season on the North Atlantic | | | | |
| was the Hamburg-America Line. | | | | The thing that the cruise ship is known best |
| | | | for is its amazing cuisines that are served |
| Another thing that got the cruise ship more | | | | 24 hours a day. With so much food to serve, |
| attention was the television show, "The Love | | | | the cruise ship has to have the space to |
| Boat." This T.V. show used the Pacific | | | | store and cook it. Sometime in a week long |
| Princess ship from the Princess Cruise Line. | | | | trip you'll find that more than ten tons of |
| With the popularity that "The Love Boat" | | | | beef and almost 30,000 eggs are used in |
| brought, the cruise industry began to soar | | | | meals. |
| around the 1980s. The famous T.V. show | | | | |
| demonstrated that even ordinary individuals | | | | Although people think of the cruise ship as a |
| could enjoy spending time on a cruise ship | | | | place to vacation, the cruise ship has had |
| for a vacation. Now that the cruise ship was | | | | many other uses as well. During the |
| for more than the rich and famous, all types | | | | hurricanes in the Gulf Coast in 2005, cruise |
| of cruises became available in order to meet | | | | ships were called to house displaced victims. |
| the desires of all types of people. Between | | | | Three of the Princess Cruise Line ships were |
| 2001 and 2006 there have been about eight or | | | | contracted by the Federal Emergency |
| nine cruise ships added each year. | | | | Management Agency to house hurricane victims |
| | | | temporarily. Cruise ships have also been |
| Some people would love to visit the Arctic | | | | used as a place for people to stay during the |
| and Antarctic and couldn't previously afford | | | | 2004 Olympics, since there weren't enough |
| the means to do so. Now with the cruise ship | | | | hotel rooms available. |
| being so accessible, people can enjoy trips | | | | |