Environmental group besieges Royal Caribbean with a 'National Call-In Day'

Thursday, November 13, 2003

WASHINGTON, USA: Concerned callers across the US flooded Royal Caribbean headquarters with phone calls Wednesday denouncing the company's refusal to install advanced wastewater treatment technology on all of its cruise ships. 

Organized by Oceana, an international non-profit ocean advocacy group, the "National Call-In Day" was the second of its kind and included participants in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Portland, Maine.

Dana DuBose, Oceana's Cruise Pollution Campaign Director, said the call-in day gave a frustrated public the chance to express its anger with Royal Caribbean over the company's needless sea pollution. Currently, 23 of Royal Caribbean's 26-ship cruise fleet treat their waste with antiquated marine sanitation devices. The resulting pollution can contribute to beach water contamination, shellfish bed closures, coral reef destruction and the killing of marine mammals.

"This issue won't just 'float away' like the waste Royal Caribbean's fleet leaves in its wake," said DuBose. "The public is justifiably angry with Royal Caribbean over its sewage and wastewater dumping standards. All we're doing is focusing that anger toward its source."

For more information about Oceana's Stop Cruise Pollution campaign, visit www.oceana.org. 

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