"Gadget World" wrote in message
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> Remember the days when the 4th of July was celebrated with a great
> fireworks show off the aft of the ship.
>
> I cannot understand why this does not happen, when seaside towns do
> their fireworks shows on the water off-shore.
>
> I can especially see a very special fireworks show on ships with a large
> seating area at the aft, like Princess and soon the Oasis.
>
> I think that every cruise should be celebrated with fireworks for a
> memorable experience.
>
>
Fireworks are intrinsically dangerous. They're explosives. They blow up.
They cause fires. If you were an insurance company, would you allow it on
ships that you insure? If you were a passenger on a ship hundreds of miles
away from any help... would you want dangerous fireworks around?
That reminds me about the time a passenger on a bridge tour asked Captain
Ioannis on Constellation why no cruise ships had nuclear reactors. He said
it's because they're VERY dangerous. Three Mile Island had a partial core
melt down and now thousands of people in New Jersey have thyroid cancer
(that's the way the wind blew the radiation... what did you think would
happen when you built a nuclear plant near a populated area and had a melt
down?).
It's simply better to avoid dangerous things. Even if they're 99.9% safe...
that 0.1% of the time something bad happens... it's REAL bad.
--Tom
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