In and around Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

[Alan Gomes]

Looking at the marinetraffic.com , it is very believable. They are lined up in Catalina channel and at least 30 ships are drifting west of Catalina! All the way to off shore of Malibu, It is a parking lot, but the ships are in constant motion.

This is a slow motion crisis unfolding in plain view.There is a disaster brewing, I fear. How long can those crews stay vigilant? Some of them have been at sea so long they left before vaccinations were available. Therefore, they may not enter the US. There is a little bit of weather brewing for Monday, too. Not bad mind you, but those monster ships have a lot of windage!

Maybe I did hear correctly, then. I'm still on my mooring at Avalon, leaving for San Pedro tomorrow morning. I've got the VHF on now and did not hear any update on specific numbers, but VTS is telling one ship after another to drift, and much of the time they are referring to doing so west of Catalina. So this is entirely consistent with what you are seeing on that website.