{"id":455509,"date":"2010-03-21T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fc5584e970c"},"modified":"2010-03-21T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T18:20:00","slug":"this-ocean-cruise-presents-gritty-side-of-l-a-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/455509","title":{"rendered":"This ocean cruise presents gritty side of L.A. coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/img>This cruise offers a different view of the Southern California coast.<\/p>\n

The
\n2 1\/2 -hour excursion takes passengers through a seascape short on the
\npicturesque but full of concrete and metal — a ride through
\nexhaust-tinged air and past power plants, rusty warehouses and the
\nTerminal Island prison that once housed Charles Manson and Al Capone.<\/p>\n

On a drizzly afternoon, a group of tourists huddle aboard the
\nChristopher sipping wine, nibbling cookies and gazing out at the ocean
\njust off Long Beach. Cameras dangle from their necks, ready to record
\nthe sights.<\/p>\n

<\/br>But these sightseers are not aboard for an afternoon of whale watching or a search for dolphins and sea lions.
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<\/br>Corroded metal shipping containers, belching smokestacks, trash-strewn waterways and oil islands highlight this harbor cruise.
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<\/br>When
\nthe boat chugs past the Postojna, a Liberian cargo ship loading tons of
\nscrap metal into its hull, one passenger asks: "I wonder if my bike’s
\nthere?"
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In recent years, reality tours have shuttled sightseers
\nto the slums of Rio de Janeiro, through gang-plagued neighborhoods in
\nLos Angeles and on "toxic tours" of factories, refineries and
\nbrownfields in Oakland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The aim of the Urban Ocean Boat Cruise
\n— run by the Aquarium of the Pacific and Harbor Breeze Cruises — is
\nto ply Southern California’s most compromised waters to show the
\nenvironmental effects of trade, fishing, industry and other human
\nactivities.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n

–Tony Barboza in Long Beach<\/p>\n

Photo: Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This cruise offers a different view of the Southern California coast. The 2 1\/2 -hour excursion takes passengers through a seascape short on the picturesque but full of concrete and metal — a ride through exhaust-tinged air and past power plants, rusty warehouses and the Terminal Island prison that once housed Charles Manson and Al […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}