so even the third world refuses to work on these ships
The reason for the shortage is that all their would be employees are lined up to cross our southern border.
One of my buds is a Filipino dude. Right wing. It is a fact that a third of seafarers are Filipinos and he directly knows one of the guys who runs the mariner schools in Manila. He tells me the cruise ships want a double shot of the fake vaxx, and there were adverse effects on a number of them which scared off the the rest of the lower batches.
The Pride of America is covered by the Jones Act, so there are US citizenship requirements for the crew. There are minimum manning requirements for the deck and engine departments which if not met, the ship cannot sail. So the crew shortages are mostly likely occuring in the “hotel” side of the ship, wait staff, room stewards, etc.
The entire crew is covered by various collective bargaining agreements.
The Pride of America is a US flagged and crewed ship.