Cruise Ship Day

Extremities

Wendover Productions

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Suddenly, 800 tourists arrive on the tiny island of St Helena.

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0:00.0	Well, the cruise ship is, I don't know, a couple kilometers away. It's pretty big. You can see it coming.
0:08.0	Just appeared off the shores of St Helina, Wednesday morning, October 22nd, that sounds right.
0:18.0	23rd.
0:20.0	Yeah, but after, you know, it's being kind of completely isolated, one of the few tourists here since Saturday,
0:29.0	there's about to be almost 800 of them coming on which should be interesting. These tourists have had
0:37.7	a week-long journey from Cape Verde basically so I'm sure they're eager to get off.
0:43.6	They're apparently on the around the world cruise,
0:46.3	so I'm sure there'll be plenty of kind of wealthy tourists,
0:51.4	which is exactly the type that St Helina wants.
0:55.0	Seems like the taxis here are well there's a big increase in taxi numbers on a cruise ship day.
1:01.0	None of the taxis are metered here. They kind of just have
1:03.4	generally accepted prices. So there are a lot of cars that look pretty
1:08.6	personal that that suddenly have a taxi signs on top.
1:15.0	All right, the cruise ship has slowed significantly.
1:18.0	It's probably about, I'm gonna say a quarter mile, quarter to a half mile offshore right now. I'm assuming it's about to drop
1:27.2	anchor because it's nearly at a dead stop pretty much as close as it can probably get.
1:33.0	And then once it drops anchor,
1:35.0	we should see some boats go out to meet it.
1:36.0	So the boat has dropped anchor now.
1:38.0	They've lowered a boat.
1:40.0	They've lowered one of their boats,
1:42.0	and it definitely looks different than the lifeboats they have so I'm assuming that that's kind of their
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