Cruise passengers to disembark in middle of harbor February 9, 2009 Thousands of cruise ship passengers will be forced to disembark at a buoy in the middle of Sydney Harbor later this week because all other shipping berths are being used. Thousands of cruise ship passengers will be forced to disembark at a buoy in the middle of Sydney Harbor later this week because all other shipping berths are being used. When the cruise liner Rhapsody of the Seas arrives in Sydney on Tuesday it will not dock at any of the usual shipping terminals. They are full and the ship will instead anchor at a harbor buoy and its passengers taken to land by a smaller boat.