Cruise ship Queen Victoria anchored in the English Channel off the Dorset coast as the industry remains at a standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic on August 18, 2020 in Weymouth, England. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)





The the 92,409-ton, 16-deck MSC Orchestra cruise ship exits the lagoon as a flag of the Lion of St. Mark, the symbol of Venice, is being waved, in Venice, Italy, Saturday, June 5, 2021. The first cruise ship leaving Venice since the pandemic is set to depart Saturday amid protests by activists demanding that the enormous ships be permanently rerouted out the fragile lagoon, especially Giudecca Canal through the city's historic center, due to environmental and safety risks. (Photo by Antonio Calanni/AP Photo)





A handout photo made available by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) shows an aerial view of Australia's new icebreaker RSV Nuyina being towed in the Danube River as it leaves the Galati shipyards in Galati, Romania, 03 August 2020. Australia's new icebreaker RSV Nuyina, one of the world's most advanced scientific research vessels, is now bound on a month long journey to the Dutch port of Vlissingen for final commissioning and sea trials in the Netherlands, AAD said in a statement. (Photo by Australian Antarctic Division/EPA/EFE)





Polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, sails out of the River Mersey past Antony Gormley's art installation “Another Place” at Crosby, north west England on November 03, 2020. In November, the shipyard will formally hand over the ship to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Early next year the ship will undertake ice trials in the Arctic, and in November 2021 make its maiden voyage to Antarctica. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Wire Press Association)





Spirit of Discovery returns at dawn to London International Cruise Terminal on July 11, 2021 after completing another successful cruise following the lay up of SAGA's cruise ship in Tilbury Docks. (Photo by Fraser Gray/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





As Storm Francis hits the UK The DFDS ferry Calais Seaways heads for the Port of Dover through high seas on August 25, 2020. (Photo by Martin Dalton/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A section of the bulk carrier ship MV Wakashio, belonging to a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, ran aground on a reef, is pictured at the Riviere des Creoles, August 13, 2020. (Photo by Reuben Pillay/Reuters)





A drone image shows decommissioned cruise ships being dismantled for scrap metal sales after the COVID-19 pandemic all but destroyed the industryat Aliaga ship-breaking yard in the Aegean port city of Izmir, western Turkey, October 2, 2020. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





In this September 7, 2012 file photo, the research vessel Ocearch has set her anchor as the crew begins their search for great white sharks on the Atlantic Ocean, spending two to three weeks tagging sharks and collecting blood and tissue samples off the coast of Chatham, Mass. After tagging the sharks real-time satellite tracks the shark each time its dorsal fin breaks the surface, plotting its location on a map. Researchers in Massachusetts say great white sharks in the Atlantic Ocean are venturing offshore farther, with more frequency and at greater depths than previously known. The findings were published Sept. 29, 2017, in the scientific journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. (Photo by Stephan Savoia/AP Photo)





Decommissioned cruise ships are being dismantled at Aliaga ship-breaking yard in the Aegean port city of Izmir, western Turkey, October 2, 2020. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





In this April 16, 2019 photo, a cruise ship transits through the Pedro Miguel locks of the Panama Canal. An intense drought related to this year's El Nino phenomenon has precipitously lowered the level of Panama's Gatún Lake, forcing the country's Canal Authority to impose draft limits this week on ships moving through the waterway's recently expanded locks. (Photo by Arnulfo Franco/AP Photo)





A ship moored in the dock of Barcelona's port to house police reinforcements in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, September 23, 2017. Unions representing Spanish security forces say authorities have hired three ferries to accommodate some of the additional police officers dispatched to Catalonia for the Oct. 1 independence referendum. (Photo by Manu Fernandez/AP Photo)





In this June 27, 2019, photo, the aircraft elevator of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier JS Izumo (DDH-183) is lowered and opens the view to the hangar deck as aircraft maintenance engineers prepare to position one of SH-60K helicopters onto the elevator before dawn, as it sails from Muara Port in Brunei to Subic Port in the Philippines. (Photo by Emily Wang/AP Photo)





A stern view of the Grace 1 super tanker in the British territory of Gibraltar, Thursday, August 15, 2019, seized last month in a British Royal Navy operation off Gibraltar. The United States moved on Thursday to halt the release of the Iranian supertanker Grace 1, detained in Gibraltar for breaching EU sanctions on oil shipments to Syria, thwarting efforts by authorities in London and the British overseas territory to defuse tensions with Tehran. (Photo by Marcos Moreno/AP Photo)





This November 8, 2019, photo provided by John Guillote shows a view from the main lab of the Sikuliaq in the Chukchi Sea. University of Washington scientists onboard the research vessel are studying the changes and how less sea ice will affect coastlines, which already are vulnerable to erosion because increased waves delivered by storms. More erosion would increase the chance of winter flooding in villages and danger to hunters in small boats. (Photo by John Guillote via AP Photo)