When The Apocalypse struck, all shipments of fuel and supplies ceased. Those with fusion stack engines were capable of operating almost indefinitely, and still ply the oceans to this day as mobile statelets.
Ships still powered by fossil fuels used what remained to reach more temperate zones, or isolated islands where they could flourish, far from the chaos, mass famine and war that engulfed the continents.
Ships that were unfortunate enough to have little fuel were stranded in situ, but they were often more secure than anything on shore, and became living communities, refuges for survivors and civilization.
Arctic climes became even more inhospitable during the long nuclear winter, but on the positive side, the hostile environment and remote location kept them safe from bionitic horrors that overran more hospitable regions.
Above we see the ocean freighter Phoenix, once under the flag of Costa Rica. When The Fall occurred, it was outside the port of Vancouver. Rather than fleeing south or to the islands, it headed north, to Alaska, where the families of most of the crew resided. It later became the home base for two Russian nuclear submarines that had defected during the last organized conflict of humankind for a thousand years.
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