With this pivotal realization, the era of luxury cruise travel was born. Functional Atlantic crossings metamorphosed into trendy leisure pursuits of appreciable social standing. Gambling, ingesting, eating, dancing, seeing, and being seen were hallmarks of cruising through the heydays of the early to mid-1900s. By crusing out to sea three miles, a ship can be in international waters and hence past U.S. jurisdiction. Clever entrepreneurs took advantage of this loophole and “cruises to nowhere” became essential sources of Prohibition gambling and alcohol consumption.
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