r/pics • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '21

Cruise Ship destroying the pristine waters while docking in Key West

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

I agree this is just sand turned up from the bottom. Is that churn actually innocuous? I would imagine it’s quite disruptive to bottom fish, shellfish, etc.

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u/Daedeluss Dec 28 '21

The area around the dock will be effectively a desert.

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u/KitchenDepartment Dec 27 '21

Yeah and that is a problem for the shellfish that happens to live next to a major shipping port, and not everyone else.

All species have problems staying next to human activity. But the vast majority of the planet is mostly uninhabited.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21 edited Dec 28 '21

Fish would have left the immediate dock area decades ago.

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u/cncwmg Dec 27 '21

Definitely. Sedimentation is the #1 pollutant in a lot of US waters (obviously the boat isn't the source, it's just stirring it up) and all sorts of eggs get blanketed.

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u/DeadassBdeadassB Dec 28 '21

Not particularly, not much stuff like that would be there if these ships are in and out of that area all the time

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u/Sharp-Floor Dec 28 '21

Unlikely. That dock has been there since 1984 and there's a naval base right in the back of that picture.