Kristen Joy Odley

Almost every boat that does any kind of activity out in the open ocean has tracking for two reasons.

Number one, in case you get lost.

But number two, to keep an eye so that you are visible to other boats.

And so that other boats are visible to you.

No, there's not air traffic control.

And I'll get back to Carnival, but when you cross the Atlantic...

On an airplane, you fly up to the furthest point, like Newfoundland, Canada, you fly up to the the farthest point and then you travel across the shortest distance to get over to land in Europe.

Right.

And you sometimes might fly over Greenland or whatever.

I mean, however, it depends on where you're flying.

But there are air traffic controllers who maintain those routes.

And every day, based on weather patterns and traffic patterns, they will decide.

There's A, B, C, D, E, and F. There's all kind of lines in the sky, highways in the sky.

Right.

And the traffic pattern often goes one way at a certain time and another way at a certain time.

And they separate you or they have everybody flying on the same line because of weather.

So let's say today they're using A, right?

So the air traffic controller puts you on pattern A and there you will go.

A lot of times you are so far out in the ocean that there is no air traffic control available.

that you can communicate with, except via a global position, like there's a global text message system, essentially.