My Perry Class Frigate had a new diesel engine (about the size of house kitchen) installed to a generator. Upon testing one of the pistons decided it was leaving the crankcase. The piston was about 9 inches in diameter. Big fire, took about 3 hours to put it out and clean it up. So much for a *NEW* engine.
Imagine being a personal escort companion to a lady whose husband just dropped dead, for two whole weeks. "So....first time to Alaska? Wanna see the moose or....?"
That would take the right kind of person too. My dad just killed himself a couple of months ago and not sure that I'd want some jackass throwing in their thoughts for weeks while I was stuck on a ship.
@@sint0xicateme no worries. I'm pretty at peace with it. We all have to lose our parents, and at least I didn't have to watch him suffer and waste away slowly. The hard part is always the little things where you expected someone to share a moment with you or think about them because of things that you did together.
"The lower deck is burning again!" "Well why didn't the fire suppressors work?" "They did, but the system activated the ones in the kitchens and no-one can find the one IT guy who knows how to reboot the system!"
“Fire fire! Turn on the suppression!” Can’t, there’s a known bug in firestopd that fails to trigger when given as a non root use while the daemon is chrooted but doesn’t have an according cgroup leading to a race condition where... *Celine Dion starts singing as the ocean liner sings slowly under the waves”
5:55 that’s actually grounds for a family member to sue. When taking the job of a doctor nurse medic etc you have what’s known as a duty to act where you don’t let jurisdiction rules etc dictate if you render aid or not. Saw a similar case (I’m Florida where I’m an EMT.) where a guy coded (went in to cardiac arrest) in the parking lot of a hospital. The hospital staff was not able to retrieve and work the man because he wasn’t in the facility. Fire rescue had to be called to the scene and bring the man in. The patient died. I can’t confirm or deny it was due to delayed care but during code situations every second is crucial.
this story story is really sad, it seems the cruise staff really tried their best to help. at least they were very kind to the wife. the cruise line wouldn't be the ones being sued, right? because they tried to help, but it was the security on the coast that prevented them
Why don't they just save him? Or at least let them try. Who cares where they are, why should it be a reason to not to save someone. The only situations where location comes into play should be if saving them would put others in the area of danger. But these people are on a ramp between a cruise ship and land. They should be allowed to try and save them. Also the comment about the hospital. They should of tried to save the guy. They get called out to random places to save people, why should the parking lot in front of the hospital be any different.
I have a few stories of my own. Im an Officer who previously worked on a cruise ferry as a deckhand (might be joining the cruise indistry as an officer sometime in the future). First story. We were going to have a fire drill, and had announced this information to passengers. During the drill, the silent alarms on our pagers went off (usual stuff, happens every 2 days or so, 99% of the time its a false alarm, thats why its silent). Well it turned out that coincidentally this time there was a small cabin fire. We didnt raise the general alarm as it wasnt deemed neccessary. Passengers just assumed that the firemen in full smokediving gear (including me) were only part of the drill, not an actual fire. Second story: this ship had 4 main engines. One of them blew up with such force that a explosion relief valve came flying off with such force it put a dent in the bulkhead. We kept sailing on 3 engines and noone knew a thing. Bonus story: One of our two rudders had a small malfunction, which required us to come to a stop for 10 minutes so the engineers could fix it. We informed the passengers of this and all went well. 10 minutes later the engineers were finished and we started to continue our voyage, when the local Rescue Coordinarion Centre contacted us and asked what our emergency was. Apparently one of the passengers had made a distress call on the ships behalf. Luckily they contacted us first, because else said passenger could have been in a lot of legal toruble. A false distress call in the US for example is a felony with up to 6 years in prison along with a $250,000 fine.
Lol had a similar thing on fast craft ferry I worked on. There was an issue with one of the buckets that got jammed hard strbd. We came to a stop so the engineers could center it and cut the hydros so we could get going again an engine down and fix it later. Just as they were finishing the bridge got a radio call from HM Coastguard. They'd received a 999 call from one of our pax saying we were on fire and didn't know what we were doing 😂 Police were waiting to have a nice chat with them when we got in. Still no idea how they thought we were on fire. I was on that same ship when we really did have an engine room fire and it's not exactly a subtle event 😂
MoA-Reload... There sure are a lot of funny incidents with passengers. All "normal" work stories are amplified on ships since passengers ofcause have no idea how a ship works and what requirements it has. I mean most people dont have a clue how long it takes for a ship to turn so its understandable. My favourite story was when we were cleaning the sundeck (this ship had a large, forward to aft sundeck with the casing seperating it in the middle) and had closed off the port side in order to keep passengers from getting water sprayed on them and slipping on the soap. When we were almost done, an older lady stood at the barrier and complained "do you think this is a prison? Because as far as im aware this is a ship". I laughed until i realized she was dead serious. Luckily deckhands on that company dont wear nametags nor are they required to keep good customer service. She was fuming at the fact that she couldnt walk out on the soapy painted metal deck, where my coworker was currently rinsing it with a pressure washer. The usual stuff is when passengers think its a good idea to skip a barrier, manually force a sliding door open and go for a smoke in an area where a 20L cannister with a corrosive sticker on it is fully visible (glass sliding door), along with an unknown liquid (phosphoric- and oxalic-acid in high concentration, a drop leaves you blind if not immediately treated) dripping from the ceiling, and a deckhand with full protective gear is currently applying the unknown liquid. Like what the hell are people thinking. Also, there is another smoking area on the opposite side of the ship, fully visible from the closed off area. Luckily no passengers ever got it on them. I know from a coworkers experience, getting that stuff in your eyes HURTS.
@@SportSoulLife I always say we see people at their dumbest and weirdest when they travel. Had a family think it was a smart idea to scatter Grandpa's ashes at sea off the back of SeaCat at full pelt. Ship at 35knts creates a hell of a breeze so Grandpa got well scattered. He coated the family, good portion of the port aft quarter and we had to hose bits of him off the vehicle ramp before we could unload when we got in. Not to mention when the cabin crew got the family out of the way whatever they traipsed into the cabin ended up in a Henry hoover. Even when shit gets real ppl are mental. The engine room fire I experienced was port side engine room when a fuel pump spewed fuel all over the engine. Co2 fixed fire suppression system failed AND vents and shutters failed to close. We were boundary fighting that fire for 2hrs bobbing around just outside Belfast Lough before it finally ran out of fuel and went out. Pax and crew all with life jackets on literally 5mins from Cpt calling it(although they didn't know that) and the thing that annoyed the pax most after "smoke hurts" is we'd closed the bar! That and we'd closed the aft decks so they couldn't get out for a smoke...while the ship was on fire and belching black smoke out the back. Passenger logic right there. Fun fact, no one knew the Co2 had failed to go off until they went to replace the tanks and found they were still full...oops. Company payed for them to be replaced anyway rather than add it to the list of stuff they had to explain to MCA investigators. I have no idea how they got away with that and that ship was back up and running the next season after a winter in dry dock on a different route. Bitch of a thing had a couple of more tries at killing me before my time was done. It has the name HSC Jaume II now so good luck to anyone traveling on that thing. Bloody things a jynx :p Marine traffic site shows her in the Caribbean Sea. Bit of a change from the Irish Sea for sure.lmao
MoA-Reload... Yeah, and dont get me started on peoples driving as soon as they hit the ramp... I would let a 10 year old drive a car in, it cant get any worse than the others. The regulars however are quite good, and surprisingly, guys in their early 20s with cheap beat up cars as old as themselves. They just follow directions and trust the people who have loaded 100,000s of cars on that ship, to know what they are doing. Also they like to press the gas pedal, which is a gift sent from heaven (45 minute time to unload, load and cast off). The ship i talked about was bought from a ceirtain South European company (not wanting to go down that path to mention their name). When it was bought, the smokediving equipment was indeed in mint shape. However, there was one problem. The equipment was never even unboxed. It was all just thrown into the fire stations when they go it and they never even bothered to unpack the equipment during years of service at sea. When the captain looked at the life boat certificates, it said "passed inspection by sample". The inspectors never even came onboard to test the equipment, they just had samples of who knows what sent to them. "OS, go cut a piece of brand new wire and send it to the inspectors office will you? Lets say thats what we have on our lifeboats" (they were in poor condition). We often have problems with a ship from the same company when navigating. One of the captains actually has a standing order to call him to the bridge whenever that vessel is seen on radar. Its that bad. Complete disregards to all safety. They will cross our bow with 0.4 CPA if they gain something from it, the closest the got to us was 0.25 nm by our side when we were head on. If we try to make more space, they cut it and put it back to dangerously close. Relative speed between us two is around 40 knots head on. With 0.25 nm. At open sea. I shit you not when i tell you that it took the deckhands there 5 minutes to get a heaving line ashore, from the aft, alongside berth. Ive seen worse than that ofcause, especially chinese ships, but still, a passenger ferry at that level is scary. Never setting my foot on one of their vessels, ever. Once a friend of mine got tickets to that ship. Before he could even finnish i told him to sell them if he has a will to live.
MoA-Reload... when they bought the ship the bridge was filled with pictures of jesus, crosses and what not. We would joke that whenever something was wrong, instead of fixing it, they just hung up another painting of jesus. Pure hope and faith did keep her afloat for i think half a decade or so so i guess thats actually a good strategy then.
I worked on a cruise ship when one of the waiters died. We were told to tell the passengers that he had simply been sent home in order to avoid ruining their holiday with the bad news. Dude was only 28. Also, in the gift shops we used to run a contest where passengers could leave receipts from their purchases in a box and 5 people would have a chance of having it drawn at the end of the cruise and getting their money back. Thing was, our manager secretly removed all the receipts over $10 before doing the draw. It was just an incentive to get people to make expensive purchases in the naive hope they would get their purchase for free. Oh, and 3:30 is totally true. Don't feel bad for the crew members on the cruise. A lot of people seem to think that we never get to set a foot on shore except in home port. In reality, home port is our busiest day, and there are actually beaches and bars on the islands and other spots exclusive for crewmembers of the cruise ships. We get free shots there. Our boss doesn't mind us being a little bit buzzed on duty because it makes us more sociable and better salespeople. Also, you know those $800 shore excursions? We get to do them for free, and we get to go up to those big buffet tables after closing and pig out with whatever is left over on the tables. 11:23 is also true, but exaggerated, since we are of course capable of phoning our family to get the latest news, and we all know the free wifi spots in each port if we're desperate for a little internet time.
@@coenogo I applied online via Starboard Cruises. They hire gift shop staff for 9 different cruise lines. I got a call a few months later asking me to come to Montreal (the nearest major city to me) to do an interview. Shortly after my interview I received a confirmation that I had gotten the job and they gave me less than a month to obtain an international work visa. Once I got that, they instructed me to fly down to Fort Lauderdale to join the ship. This is specific for if you want to work in the gift shops though (a good position, because you get lots of free time on shore. Gift shops have to be closed in port because they are tax free). For other positions, you would have to apply either directly to the cruise lines (if you want to be a cook, engineer, cabin steward, waiter, etc.) or another agency (for art gallery show persons, entertainers, photographers, etc.).
Dude, I'm super glad you had so much fun working aboard, but it isn't like that for everyone, or even the majority. I only went to a free excursion once in two years, and anyway you have to work later. It's not like you go to the beach and then sleep because you're tired. So many times the choice is between resting and going out, because you're likely bound to work 6 or more hours more afterwards. For one day of 'going to the beach/monuments etc.' there are like 15 days of never getting off. During embarkation day I used to work 12+ hours in a single day, and may Heaven help you if you're undermanning. You're also supposed to go the drills whenever there is one, even if you are on break. Also I never once ate food from the Buffet, it was strictly forbidden , but I suppose it depends on the company.
My younger brother works on the ships and 2 years ago on New Years eve my parents were also on board. Now the staff when working are not aloud to have more then 1 or 2 drinks and you are never meant to be drunk on board but as long as you don't draw attention to yourself you should be fine. So my brother was with my parents and they had drank about 3 bottle of wine between them and it was about 1am, my brother gets a call and some poor old man had a heart attack and there was a helicopter on its way and its was my brothers job to coordinate the evac. Luckily he cant have been to intoxicated as everything went fine with the evac, not sure about the old man though
What cruise did your brother work on? Most cruises have wild parties in the crew bar. We were even encouraged to be slightly buzzed on duty because it helped us be more social and better salespeople (I've worked in the gift shops on cruise ships).
@@albanovkonrad I'd rather not say the company name as hes since had a promotion, I know the chances is very slight anyone important would see this but I'd rather not risk it. He was based from Southampton at the time though if that helps. Hes told me plenty of times when hes been insanely drunk, he just said that technically your not meant to be drunk so if your found to have done something stupid you can get in more trouble if your obviously drunk. But I might be getting this a bit wrong, it's been a while since I've heard these stories
Ok, fair enough. Having reread your story it doesn't sound like he was in a position where he had to regularly socialize with passengers (coordinating an evac would be for officers and other deck crew) so it makes sense that he would be encouraged not to drink. I was just thinking of my experience being a low ranking crewmember lol. I was also based from Southampton during my second contract.
@@albanovkonrad I think he had a fair amount of interacting with passengers but he was an officer so had lots of random jobs apparently. Of course if they have a free day in port they get pretty plastered, they just have to be able to sober up for the 30m or so up the gangway haha. How did you like Southampton, I actually live here and can see one of the cruise terminals from my flat which is awesome!
I got one I worked for a dinner cruise company for a year. one trip on our way to pick up passengers in a large east coast city we got a high water alarm. This wasn't too unusual due to the slightly rough conditions that evening. I got sent below deck to check it out. Low and behold there was about 18" inches of DIESEL FUEL in the bilge. ( The very bottom of the boat) Turns out the maintenance mechanic forgot to tighten a fuel filter all the way.
@@jtm232556 Jay M no...Diesel's flash point is around 55 degrees Celsius. That means the diesel needs to be at around 65 degrees c to be able to catch on fire and stay on fire. That being said this story is full of shit because the pilot of the ship would notice rapid fuel drainage and alert a mechanic to look at why the hell they are draining diesel so fast. 18 inches of diesel in that area is like a heavy thunderstorm.
Not a worker but a story I heard : I went on a cruise to Alaska last summer during August, My family had told me that cruise ships just go to dock, get cleaned out, then leave for the next cruise. So one-day my older cousin's go to a little q&a with one of the ships captians and when it was over, my cousin went up the him and asked if anyone has died or fell behind on a cruise the captain has been on and it was revealed that the week before, one of the ships workers had jumped off the boat (we were on) in the middle of the night. The reason why wasn't known and the body hasn't been found, they were still searching while we were on the boat.
@Zach Arbogast I dont know. The hardware is expensive and from all the issues the recent macs have, I'd say it's not that great. I guess theres always running it on a VM, but that's just another thing to add complexity. IMO linux is just the most flexible, as it can be installed to pretty much anything, you pick what software and programs you need, with minimal bloat, and it has the community to support it.
Or, you know, have IT that knows what it is doing. There's no way any competent IT staff is allowing the computers to update whenever the hell they want or all at the same time. They might be using Windows for very specific reasons that cannot be addressed by another OS but letting the OS dictate maintenance and updates to you is beyond incompetent.
@@animalcookie I get that. But from experience, Windows is pretty fussy that it gets updated. Microsoft doesnt make it too easy to disable automatic restarts in some cases. This is more evident on Windows 10, as you've probably heard about. Not saying its impossible, and yeah, IT should know this, but still. Also something I've noticed with Linux, is it usually can update stuff on the fly while the system is running. Sometimes it does need to be rebooted, it'll usually say when you log in an SSH session "SYSTEM RESTART REQUIRED", where you can reboot as it says, or you could leave it as is until a suitable opportunity arises. Also personally, I find Linux to be more reliable for running for longer periods of time. You know where sometimes something goes wonky with Windows, where you usually just need to reboot it to correct it? I havent experienced this with Linux yet. Probably depends on what's running on it though. One final thing, you can run windows applications in Linux, it does take some setting up but it can be done. Or the program could be rebuilt and rewritten for it.
"All of the computer systems run on Windows 7" Oh nice, relatively recent I was expecting XP at best. Wait they have auto-updates turned on?!? What sort of floating deathtrap are you on!?!
Ive gone on Carnival very recently. DONT BUY THEIR WIFI a lot of people who did said it was slow and hardly functional. It’s not worth it if you can’t use it.
Cruise ship: we have enough for for a month! Another cruise ship: we've been stranded in the ocean for a few days... So all you get to eat is a piece of cheese on a bun
Ship computers run on windows? Haaaahaaaaaaaaaa good try there. The most modern computer ive seen on a damn ship is some 1990s version of windows server.
And it wasnt even for the ship computers, that was for the crew computers. For NOT looking at porn. You know, totally using it to do crew training and reading up on things online...
Cruises are awesome. My first one was nothing special, made the normal procedure (breakfast, go to the coast and enjoy where we are placed, lunch generally outside, then in the evening go back to the ship, go to the restaurant to eat dinner and then go to the casino/bars/parties/theater). The second I befriend one of the musicians that worked in the bar next to the pool and I asked about what they did in their free time. He said they sleep about 3 to 4 hours per day but every day after the passengers go to sleep they party on the bar in deck 13th. He invited me and I went their 3 nights. There were few veteran passengers that love cruises and crew members. I got to know the captain and the vice captain in different nights, the bartenders made different drinks. I drank a wine that only the high crew members drink and was one of the most entertaining people in the place. It was a blast.
The Costa Concordia sank out of arrogance on the Captain's part. He had been drinking and tried to show off how close to land he could get and then the ship ran aground and tore a hole in the hull.
I've been on a LOT of cruises, and from the top of my head I remember at least 2 of them when someone died. One of them a lady had a some sort of terrible accident and had to be air lifted out. And another time while the missus and I were having dinner at the restaurant an elderly lady had a heart attack right in front of us. She lived, thankfully, and we ended up having a chat to her the next day. Edit: One of the cruises we were on, the ship was the P&O Pacific Explorer, the seas were super choppy and we were travelling perpendicular to the surf. The ship was hit by a wave that smashed two windows and drenched a bunch of people in the restaurant, children as well. The missus and I were at the bar when it happened and the whole side of the ship shook and stuttered. A lot of the ship was flooded that night and the captain had to turn the engines off and let the current take us back south. The current was so strong that we traveled twice the distance we did through throughout the day by just drifting south over night. It was pretty eventful to say the least.
My Nana told me a story about a cruise she was on. A man had passed away and his family, who were also on the ship, decided he should be buried at sea. The crew hadn’t done this procedure in a while so they had a practice before the funeral. They loaded him on the chute and practiced sending his body off, but they weren’t meant trip the switch to actually let him go. Something went wrong, however, and body slipped down and into the sea. The family later cried over sacks of potatoes in a body bag as it was let down the chute.
3:54 did a little research and there was a sister ship called the costa concordia that sank due to colliding with a submerged rock, it capsized and was a complete loss, they found the wreck and towed the ship for scrapping. The captain got into a LOT of trouble and charged with manslaughter. Dang.
....... Yes, this was major news when it happened so it's ingrained into the collective knowledge. That's why the OP didn't give too many details on the sister ship.
True story - I worked a cruise ship once for a few months. On one occasion, we travelled through a well known bad stretch of water during the night and I noticed a warship coming towards us. Not knowing what it was doing I grabbed the deck phone and contacted the ship to let them know there was a warship off the starboard aft. I was told that it was a cargo ship to which I replied "Cargoships do not normally have a bloody big gun on the foredeck and come armed with missiles!". The Captain then got on the radio and asked what the heck it was doing to which the US navy warship (who else!) said it was using us to train its crew. Skipper said that if it did not leave in the next thirty seconds, he would assume it was a pirate and take appropriate steps Ship backed off and none of our passengers even knew about it
5:55 that’s actually grounds for a family member to sue. When taking the job of a doctor nurse medic etc you have what’s known as a duty to act where you don’t let jurisdiction rules etc dictate if you render aid or not. Saw a similar case (I’m Florida where I’m an EMT.) where a guy coded (went in to cardiac arrest) in the parking lot of a hospital. The hospital staff was not able to retrieve and work the man because he wasn’t in the facility. Fire rescue had to be called to the scene and bring the man in. The patient died.
I worked on cruise ships we would get 14 hours free wifi, then you would need to pay though you get better signal paying roaming charges, the most strange thing is when I broke my arm on board loading and I was still on stretcher duty in emergency evacuations, so when a drill came by you could see the guests just stare at me, stretcher in one hand, plaster arm in sling on the other.
So I was on this cruise ship, and we were on our way to some random aquapolis idk. A zombie virus broke out while we were on board. I escaped, this was back in 2005. I later learned it was a Veltro base or whatever I don’t even know. #ResidentEvil
Honestly, i would be more worried if all the ships computers would run on Win 10...the moment that crapfest hits any vital system computer im off the boat immediately
Tangibly close. I got a neighbor who used to work on a local ferry line around the coast of Finland, he was working at the bar (even though he was an engineer on board) one night, When a worried passenger came up to the bar looking nervous as hell. He got talking with the passenger and found out they guy was worried because of the rough seas, neighbor tells him "Dont worry, we are as safe as the M/S Estonia". (She was a well known ship at the time and pride for safety measures). Same night the Ferry takes an unexpected detour, turns out while my Neighbor had been chatting with the passenger, the radio operator and captain had been furiously trying to communicate with the Estonia and mainland, the Estonia was taking on water fast, she sank claiming 852 lives, his ship the Mariella was one of the first ships to arrive on the scene.
I used to be a bartender for not a cruise, but this boat that took you to an island(They still had refreshments and it took 3 days to reach the island). This particular boat had this kind of area that had a cut out on the floor, and some rope there (This was long ago, and I only worked at the very top of the 2 floor boat. So I don't know how they did that.)Think of those rope jungle gym climbing things that you use to go to the slide part. That, but on the floor. The rope was neated up and colored white with cushions, so it was very popular. The max of people that could be here was 3. A fourth person came in. The rope was a little stretched... a fifth person came in. They were, um.. Big Smoke basically. And... RIP. It ripped. Everyone was fine. And since you had to book the VIP section, there were little people that wanted to pay the extra million Bolivarés just for especial drinks, the rope lounge, and a sun chair. Anyway, everyone admitted it was their fault and were embarassed a little, especially this girl that told the two other people, including Big Smoke, that they could lay with them. Nobody was allowed to sit there for the rest of the trip. If you see any spelling errors, tell me!
I've been on cruises with huge spring break crews (80+ people) and the workers would tend to cut loose with us. I've gotten drunk with them, but I've also seen the other side. The captain and security team sending people to the cruise jail and threatening to leave people at port. All in all, in a big obnoxious group like that, the workers tend to drop their act more (both good & bad).
There was one family who found out it would cost so much to put an elderly relative in an old people's home, that they put her on a cruise ship instead. Not just for one cruise, she LIVED on it... and had a fully qualified doctor and "hospital" within walking distance, and a different view from the window every day.
Being thrown overboard in foggy conditions with no chance of survival is fucking terrifying. I’d swim to the closest shark and let him do his magic on me
I remember my nan said the when she was little she saw coffins being loaded on to her cruise ship...not the most comforting first image before sailing...
Fires are pretty common from my research. Titanic had a huge fire raging for days, before they even started across the Atlantic. Some theories about why the iceberg was able to pierce the hull so easily is because the fire weakened it.
@@steammachine2136 Correct. In the coal bunkers next to a main bulkhead and close to the hull in approximately the exact place that had been hit by the iceberg. The bulkhead was reportedly warping before they left England, and several of the below deck crew actually exited at ports before they began sailing across the Atlantic because of the magnitude of the fire. Which is saying something because I don't think coal fires on ships were especially rare back then.
My grandpa died on a cruise. It was horrible for my family. My grandma, aunt, brother and cousin were all with him at the time staying in the same cabin. He had a heart attack. The medic crew on board did CPR even though we were in Australian waters and his medical notes said do not resuscitate because he was so ill. They worked on him for over 30 minutes. Very traumatizing for my grandma who was in the room with him as he died.
For that last one, can you imagine if some of the people on that cruise were on land touring whatever foreign city they were in and suddenly their entire cruise ship is gone? Wild
I am from Cozumel, Mexico. I heard the same story from a cruiseship member. I also know about people who book really expensive rooms on cruise ships, spend all their money on casinos and alcohol and, when they ran out of money, they jump out of the boat or hung themselves in the hotel rooms.
on my first cruise, three people died. 1. the guy that made the omlettes of a morning jumped overboard. had to turn the boat around to find him. never saw him again. 2. a boring food poisoning death. 3. an old guy died of a heart attack. long story short, fun cruise.
I was on a cruise two summers ago and we stopped at Freeport a few days in. I wasn’t feeling well that day, so I decided to nap in my cabin while my family explored the place. Five minutes later, I was awoken by an announcement to the crew that one of the pipes burst on the fourth floor of the ship and completely soaked the area. I’m pretty sure people found out once they reboarded, but I sure never got any sleep.
Last cruise I went on got delayed at a port in the Caribbean because an old man got off there and ending up dying while off the ship. That seriously must happen all the time.
I heard a story about a navy sailor who had just got off a deployment and went on a cruise. He woke up one night and heard engine problems, so he walked down to the machinery space, fixed it up, then went back to his room.
I went on a cruise for thanksgiving with my grandmother, and when we were headed back to Florida, the captain made an announcement and said that a crew member went missing. We ended up leaving port about an hour or two later than expected because searches were going on everywhere. He must have been gone at least for a day before passengers found out. After we left port, a police boat came to the side of the ship and stayed for a few minutes before leaving again. Then an ambulance was back at the Florida port after our cruise ended. I hope they found him and he didn't drown at sea...
If I am chillin 24/7 and you are working a 6-12 hour shift AND THEN chilling in a crew only bar area, how are you having more fun? Were doing the same shit except I have no strings attached and can leave afterwards.
I went on a Mediterranean cruise a few years back. I celebrated my birthday in Venice by taking an island tour excursion that afternoon, then going to St. Mark's at night for some gelato. I was exhausted by the time back on board the ship that night, with just enough time to sit down for a very late dinner. This was long after the scheduled dinners had ended, so I could sit anywhere I wanted instead of my usual assigned table. Even before I ordered anything, the waitress was already checking me out, especially my hair. Then she found out it was my birthday. She took every opportunity she could to brush up against me, lightly touched my arm, and ran a hand through my hair a couple of times. There was no mistaking that for some accidental touching or being friendly to the customer. I know that European women are more direct when it comes to flirting and romance, but I was not expecting that. I didn't plan on having a fling on a cruise, so I didn't pack any condoms. I love women and appreciate the gestures and obvious signals, but it *really* wasn't the time! I never saw her again, what a shame.
Not sure if this counts but... I took a cruise to the bahamas a few years ago and found out that our luggage was never actually put onto the boat. Somehow my dad's stuff made it on though. We kept asking about it and at first they tried to play it off like they didn't know what we were talking about, then they said that it was still in a terminal back in Miami (we had to fly to Miami to board the ship) or something like that. Then they kept telling us that it was going to be shipped to the ship then finally they admitted that they didn't know where it was. It took us two days to get to the Bahamas and the ship didn't have any toothpaste or toiletries. It was awful. When we got there, they told my mom and I that we could purchase I believe up to $500 dollars worth of stuff as long as we showed them the receipts. (It could only be stuff that we truly needed like clothes, underwear, sleepwear, swimsuits, etc.) Trust and believe, the first things I bought was a toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, soap and lotion and I rushed right back onto the ship to shower and brush my teeth. (we were taking showers but we had to split a tiny hotel bottle of body wash which didn't last us very long) On the morning of the very last day, they slid a letter under our door letting us know that our luggage would be arriving soon. We got it about an hour later. There was another instance where everyone started getting sea sick on the last day because we were going through a storm. You couldn't really hear much from inside of the ship so people were looking around wondering what was happening. Thankfully the choppy waters didn't make me sick but the swaying motion made my dad and I drop dead tired. I had to keep forcing myself to get up and move around because if I did so much as sit for more than 10 minutes, I'd fall asleep. What sucked even more was that everything on the cruise was for people 21 and older and I was only 18 at the time so there really wasn't much that I could do.
Worked for a cruise line for 7 years as a chief waiter. Quit to go back and complete my education 6 months ago.Ask anything. Edit:Here's one. In 2013 while we were in Mexico, Cozumel, 5 of us went to the local topless bar, on the way back,the only sober guy among us had no driver's licence on him, the rented jeep had issues with the steering system, it started raining, we crashed, but were fine.Cops came, the guy that was driving got arrested and put in the holding cell with 30ish or so people that just got arrested during the armed robbery of local Diamonds international.The police was entering the holding cell from time to time to shout at them and beat them. The hotel director and the staff captain came to negotiate his release. Few hours and 7000$ later he got released. TON of paparazzi were in front of the station trying to get pics and statements regarding the robbery. His confused ass ended up in the newspapers with the robbery story.
~1985 i was stationed (USN / USMC Corpsman, and was a ABH before HM) reserves in Seattle area going to college and applied to couple cruise ships for summer work. Was told "Too Qualified". Why would they NOT be interested in a USN Sailor who had been on 2 USN ships and 2 West PACs level of experience? Probably because USN Sailor even Enlisted would see them cutting corners r/t Safety at Sea?
@@mehoyminoy1326 Too qualified can mean any number of things. It can mean you're too old, or they don't think you'll fit into the team, or even that you really are too qualified and you'd start asking questions about the way things are done instead of following orders blindly (you're right, they don't exactly have old-fashioned military discipline on board these cruise liners when it comes to safety). That might be why he was rejected.
@@mehoyminoy1326 first Vulpes is correct. Navy personnel are highly trained on ships. Navy vs cruise ships are very different in experience at sea. Navy personnel are trained many basics of seamanship, cruise ships are not. Over the years I have learned Most Navy won't go on cruise ship, not because they are tired of going to Sea, we love that, but just look at the last few years news on cruise ship disasters. Yes USN has had their share also, the difference is how it was handled. At that time I had driven a Carrier, and a Supply Ship, paint, sweep and swab, basics of both boilers and Nuclear propulsion, fight fires and bulkhead damage, man overboard situations, anchors, lines for at port and at sea and list goes on. Navy know most shortcuts that can cause harm and or place the ship and people into danger. As Vulpes stated we don't work blindly. Too qualified is a oxymoron for hiring people, but it is done often ask a family elder, you will get many stories on employment experiences. I started college in my late twenties. The college had a policy that all single freshmen had to live in the Dorms. I was older than the Dorm Mother. She had a problem with that if she ever had to discipline me. (I had been in the USN USMC for about 8 years by then). They moved me to college apartments. In a way i was too qualified to live in the Dorms.
"What's your retirement plan" I don't see anything wrong about dying on a cruise ship that I choose as my retirement home. To look out one last time over the Caribbean waters on my deck cabin with my wife/family by my side doesnt bad at all. Id prefer it. Id leave a big tip for the hazmat team, security and cabin boy/girl, with a small apology/thank you letter. Would just hope I managed to smuggle some type of form of THC onboard so I can go out high af.
I need only mention one Event...Yarmouth Castle (old "Fun-ship" going from Florida to the Bahamas Caught fire in 1965, most crew abandoned ship without passengers, Fire Suppression systems all either Not working or so low pressure that they were like those sprayers at store vegetable Isles, in total 90 people died out of the 552 Passengers and crew on-board, Ship Continues to Burn for a few hours, until at around 6 AM as the water around the ship was literally boiling and her hull was red-hot, her engines Violently Exploded causing her to roll over and Finally sink)
I don't understand why people dying on cruiships, theme parks and plane flights is so fascinating to Americans, seems pretty normal to me. I can only guess that death is so hidden and santitized in the US that the idea of it happening on a vacation just blows people's minds?
When I went on a cruise with my parents and extended family, my uncle got really drunk one night in his and his wife’s cabin. They started having an argument and because my uncle was drunk he was screaming that he was going to jump overboard and take his wife with him (they were staying in a balcony unit). Security was called and about 15 crew members & security came to their room. They spent 2 hours questioning my uncle and his wife, decided that my uncle was bluffing and cut off his alcoholic drinks package. For the rest of the cruise, almost everyone knew my uncle by name and knew what he had threatened.
when i went on a cruise last october, when we were boarding some old dude had a heart attack and died right before we got on, the ship was the carnival dream
When I went on my first cruise, there were three old people that I knew for a fact were on board. My grandparents, and former president Jimmy Carter. None of them died on the trip.
My parents were on a cruise where there had been some emergency crew changes and the Captain went full TIFU and went to a wrong city. Instead of docking in Stockholm they ended up some 600 km via highway away. Apparently the guy forgot they were standing in for another crew and did their usual route.
How about cargo ships, etc. tho? My dad worked there before and he said there would be people who would climb and hide inside their ship. Once they found out, they would throw the guy onto the water and gave him a life vest and food as they are not allowed to smuggle people from one place to another. They felt bad for the guy but they have no choice and was already far from the land. Did anyone here have the same experience?
4:29 oh yeah I remember that. I was 10/11 at the time so I wasn't really interested and don't remember details, but the sinking of the Concordia brought one hell of a shitstorm to Italy. The Captain (I think Schettino was his name) got into A LOT of legal trouble. There was a parody song shittalking him going around, and I remember my entire school (we're still talking elementary) singing it for MONTHS during break and stuff. I don't think a single person living in Italy at that time that was old enough to remember didn't hear about it. It really was a big deal
There's an entitled parent store floating around where she brought her kid sick with the norovirus and she said because she spend so much money her sick kid should partake in everything the cruise had to offer. The pools, the buffet, etc etc. As you would expect, she caused a huge outbreak and the ship was blocked from entering ports. The poster's family recovered towards the end of the trip and were able to walk around the nearly deserted ship.
ok my parents are both pastors and we went on this cruise to the bahamas and like 5 people on the ship died (all elderly, if heart attacks and the like) and 4 of the 5 families were very upset and asked to talk to a pastor... so my parents had to console these poor people, all while the staff was trying to pretend no one died so thag it didn’t cause a panic . it was weird, we don’t go on cruises anymore
The 100+ day cruise doesn't even sound like fun it just sounds like a deployment.
usn1994 yeah that is too long even for a holiday!
Sounds like hell. Straight up hell.
Yeah sounds like a deployment to the morgue for a lot of those old people, certainly beats the old folks home.
LMAO
That's more than school kids' entire 2 month summer break... and what company lets their workers go on a nearly half-a-year vacation leave?
There's something genuinely heartwarming about dying on a cruise ship instead of some miserable old folks home.
Yeah I agree stuffing your face full of food having some drinks enjoying the sun and dying while asleep
Ok so I've learned that cruises are just deathraps full of people dying and throwing themselves off the boat
they aren't deathtraps. it's not the cruise's fault that people jump
over the boat or dye onboard.
Cof Fee 'Twas a joke
Thank you Phil very cool
Seems like a fun job
Plus marriages, though. Sounds like fuel for reality TV.
Man, I'm glad I work on a warship. Cruise lines sound dangerous...
darkworlddenizen uhhhhhh
Well naval warfare isn't so common these days unless you're in Somali waters (or other similar pirate hotbed), so he has a point.
For real! The Navy boys have not seen real action for decades
Daniel Choate o,
My Perry Class Frigate had a new diesel engine (about the size of house kitchen) installed to a generator. Upon testing one of the pistons decided it was leaving the crankcase. The piston was about 9 inches in diameter. Big fire, took about 3 hours to put it out and clean it up. So much for a *NEW* engine.
Imagine being a personal escort companion to a lady whose husband just dropped dead, for two whole weeks.
"So....first time to Alaska? Wanna see the moose or....?"
Lol, I thought the same!
That would take the right kind of person too. My dad just killed himself a couple of months ago and not sure that I'd want some jackass throwing in their thoughts for weeks while I was stuck on a ship.
@@chrismorse3862At the risk of sounding like some jackass: That's awful. And I'm really sorry for your loss.
@@sint0xicateme no worries. I'm pretty at peace with it. We all have to lose our parents, and at least I didn't have to watch him suffer and waste away slowly. The hard part is always the little things where you expected someone to share a moment with you or think about them because of things that you did together.
"We'll bang, ok?"
"Fire! Fire! The whole lower deck is burning"
"Turn on the fire suppression!"
"I can't, Windows is updating!"
"We're switching to Linux..."
"The lower deck is burning again!"
"Well why didn't the fire suppressors work?"
"They did, but the system activated the ones in the kitchens and no-one can find the one IT guy who knows how to reboot the system!"
sounds like something right out of cyanide and happiness lmao
“Fire fire! Turn on the suppression!”
Can’t, there’s a known bug in firestopd that fails to trigger when given as a non root use while the daemon is chrooted but doesn’t have an according cgroup leading to a race condition where...
*Celine Dion starts singing as the ocean liner sings slowly under the waves”
windows is not a real time/embedded OS you dumbfuck. this joke only works on uneducated and tech illiterate kiddies
@@Blox117 calm down.
5:55 that’s actually grounds for a family member to sue. When taking the job of a doctor nurse medic etc you have what’s known as a duty to act where you don’t let jurisdiction rules etc dictate if you render aid or not. Saw a similar case (I’m Florida where I’m an EMT.) where a guy coded (went in to cardiac arrest) in the parking lot of a hospital. The hospital staff was not able to retrieve and work the man because he wasn’t in the facility. Fire rescue had to be called to the scene and bring the man in. The patient died. I can’t confirm or deny it was due to delayed care but during code situations every second is crucial.
I would break the oath and drag him and maim who ever stops me. Stopping help is a cruel joke
this story story is really sad, it seems the cruise staff really tried their best to help. at least they were very kind to the wife. the cruise line wouldn't be the ones being sued, right? because they tried to help, but it was the security on the coast that prevented them
Politics over health care is what's wrong with the USA.
@@randomuser5443 You would be praised but could lose your career and even get arrested
Why don't they just save him? Or at least let them try. Who cares where they are, why should it be a reason to not to save someone.
The only situations where location comes into play should be if saving them would put others in the area of danger.
But these people are on a ramp between a cruise ship and land.
They should be allowed to try and save them.
Also the comment about the hospital. They should of tried to save the guy. They get called out to random places to save people, why should the parking lot in front of the hospital be any different.
Imagine leaving on a 100 day cruise to spend your last days. Only to die the moment after leaving.
Or not dying at all.
I would be pissed the whole trip.
"How was your stay?"
"Sucked... I lived."
Sōshi Miketsukami I’d chug a whole shaker of salt 🧂
@@derranlawston4052 salty 🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like the plan worked
note to self: never get drunk on a cruise. its practically a given you will jump
working on a ship seems like a wild time.
It is. I'm on my 5th contract
Yeah, thinking about signing up. Also like what are the requirements to work on a cruise ship?
@@thefrankenator whats the pay like?
Just to let you all know its labor intensive and the food sucks also long work hours and little time off.
Why isn't there a steamy TV drama about cruise ship crews?
Said it many times, and I’m gonna say it again;
Dark mode doesn’t work if you have white flashes in between! It still blinds me 😭
The white noise really ties the whole thing together
You fool. Your eyes are but simple sight devices. They have not evolved like mine. I have embraced the light, while you avoid and hide from it.
I have a few stories of my own. Im an Officer who previously worked on a cruise ferry as a deckhand (might be joining the cruise indistry as an officer sometime in the future).
First story. We were going to have a fire drill, and had announced this information to passengers. During the drill, the silent alarms on our pagers went off (usual stuff, happens every 2 days or so, 99% of the time its a false alarm, thats why its silent).
Well it turned out that coincidentally this time there was a small cabin fire. We didnt raise the general alarm as it wasnt deemed neccessary. Passengers just assumed that the firemen in full smokediving gear (including me) were only part of the drill, not an actual fire.
Second story: this ship had 4 main engines. One of them blew up with such force that a explosion relief valve came flying off with such force it put a dent in the bulkhead. We kept sailing on 3 engines and noone knew a thing.
Bonus story:
One of our two rudders had a small malfunction, which required us to come to a stop for 10 minutes so the engineers could fix it. We informed the passengers of this and all went well. 10 minutes later the engineers were finished and we started to continue our voyage, when the local Rescue Coordinarion Centre contacted us and asked what our emergency was. Apparently one of the passengers had made a distress call on the ships behalf.
Luckily they contacted us first, because else said passenger could have been in a lot of legal toruble.
A false distress call in the US for example is a felony with up to 6 years in prison along with a $250,000 fine.
Lol had a similar thing on fast craft ferry I worked on. There was an issue with one of the buckets that got jammed hard strbd. We came to a stop so the engineers could center it and cut the hydros so we could get going again an engine down and fix it later. Just as they were finishing the bridge got a radio call from HM Coastguard. They'd received a 999 call from one of our pax saying we were on fire and didn't know what we were doing 😂 Police were waiting to have a nice chat with them when we got in. Still no idea how they thought we were on fire. I was on that same ship when we really did have an engine room fire and it's not exactly a subtle event 😂
MoA-Reload... There sure are a lot of funny incidents with passengers. All "normal" work stories are amplified on ships since passengers ofcause have no idea how a ship works and what requirements it has. I mean most people dont have a clue how long it takes for a ship to turn so its understandable.
My favourite story was when we were cleaning the sundeck (this ship had a large, forward to aft sundeck with the casing seperating it in the middle) and had closed off the port side in order to keep passengers from getting water sprayed on them and slipping on the soap.
When we were almost done, an older lady stood at the barrier and complained "do you think this is a prison? Because as far as im aware this is a ship".
I laughed until i realized she was dead serious. Luckily deckhands on that company dont wear nametags nor are they required to keep good customer service. She was fuming at the fact that she couldnt walk out on the soapy painted metal deck, where my coworker was currently rinsing it with a pressure washer.
The usual stuff is when passengers think its a good idea to skip a barrier, manually force a sliding door open and go for a smoke in an area where a 20L cannister with a corrosive sticker on it is fully visible (glass sliding door), along with an unknown liquid (phosphoric- and oxalic-acid in high concentration, a drop leaves you blind if not immediately treated) dripping from the ceiling, and a deckhand with full protective gear is currently applying the unknown liquid. Like what the hell are people thinking. Also, there is another smoking area on the opposite side of the ship, fully visible from the closed off area. Luckily no passengers ever got it on them. I know from a coworkers experience, getting that stuff in your eyes HURTS.
@@SportSoulLife I always say we see people at their dumbest and weirdest when they travel. Had a family think it was a smart idea to scatter Grandpa's ashes at sea off the back of SeaCat at full pelt. Ship at 35knts creates a hell of a breeze so Grandpa got well scattered. He coated the family, good portion of the port aft quarter and we had to hose bits of him off the vehicle ramp before we could unload when we got in. Not to mention when the cabin crew got the family out of the way whatever they traipsed into the cabin ended up in a Henry hoover.
Even when shit gets real ppl are mental. The engine room fire I experienced was port side engine room when a fuel pump spewed fuel all over the engine. Co2 fixed fire suppression system failed AND vents and shutters failed to close. We were boundary fighting that fire for 2hrs bobbing around just outside Belfast Lough before it finally ran out of fuel and went out. Pax and crew all with life jackets on literally 5mins from Cpt calling it(although they didn't know that) and the thing that annoyed the pax most after "smoke hurts" is we'd closed the bar! That and we'd closed the aft decks so they couldn't get out for a smoke...while the ship was on fire and belching black smoke out the back. Passenger logic right there.
Fun fact, no one knew the Co2 had failed to go off until they went to replace the tanks and found they were still full...oops. Company payed for them to be replaced anyway rather than add it to the list of stuff they had to explain to MCA investigators. I have no idea how they got away with that and that ship was back up and running the next season after a winter in dry dock on a different route. Bitch of a thing had a couple of more tries at killing me before my time was done. It has the name HSC Jaume II now so good luck to anyone traveling on that thing. Bloody things a jynx :p
Marine traffic site shows her in the Caribbean Sea. Bit of a change from the Irish Sea for sure.lmao
MoA-Reload... Yeah, and dont get me started on peoples driving as soon as they hit the ramp... I would let a 10 year old drive a car in, it cant get any worse than the others. The regulars however are quite good, and surprisingly, guys in their early 20s with cheap beat up cars as old as themselves. They just follow directions and trust the people who have loaded 100,000s of cars on that ship, to know what they are doing. Also they like to press the gas pedal, which is a gift sent from heaven (45 minute time to unload, load and cast off).
The ship i talked about was bought from a ceirtain South European company (not wanting to go down that path to mention their name). When it was bought, the smokediving equipment was indeed in mint shape. However, there was one problem. The equipment was never even unboxed. It was all just thrown into the fire stations when they go it and they never even bothered to unpack the equipment during years of service at sea.
When the captain looked at the life boat certificates, it said "passed inspection by sample". The inspectors never even came onboard to test the equipment, they just had samples of who knows what sent to them. "OS, go cut a piece of brand new wire and send it to the inspectors office will you? Lets say thats what we have on our lifeboats" (they were in poor condition).
We often have problems with a ship from the same company when navigating.
One of the captains actually has a standing order to call him to the bridge whenever that vessel is seen on radar. Its that bad. Complete disregards to all safety. They will cross our bow with 0.4 CPA if they gain something from it, the closest the got to us was 0.25 nm by our side when we were head on. If we try to make more space, they cut it and put it back to dangerously close. Relative speed between us two is around 40 knots head on. With 0.25 nm. At open sea.
I shit you not when i tell you that it took the deckhands there 5 minutes to get a heaving line ashore, from the aft, alongside berth.
Ive seen worse than that ofcause, especially chinese ships, but still, a passenger ferry at that level is scary. Never setting my foot on one of their vessels, ever. Once a friend of mine got tickets to that ship. Before he could even finnish i told him to sell them if he has a will to live.
MoA-Reload... when they bought the ship the bridge was filled with pictures of jesus, crosses and what not. We would joke that whenever something was wrong, instead of fixing it, they just hung up another painting of jesus. Pure hope and faith did keep her afloat for i think half a decade or so so i guess thats actually a good strategy then.
I worked on a cruise ship when one of the waiters died. We were told to tell the passengers that he had simply been sent home in order to avoid ruining their holiday with the bad news. Dude was only 28.
Also, in the gift shops we used to run a contest where passengers could leave receipts from their purchases in a box and 5 people would have a chance of having it drawn at the end of the cruise and getting their money back. Thing was, our manager secretly removed all the receipts over $10 before doing the draw. It was just an incentive to get people to make expensive purchases in the naive hope they would get their purchase for free.
Oh, and 3:30 is totally true. Don't feel bad for the crew members on the cruise. A lot of people seem to think that we never get to set a foot on shore except in home port. In reality, home port is our busiest day, and there are actually beaches and bars on the islands and other spots exclusive for crewmembers of the cruise ships. We get free shots there. Our boss doesn't mind us being a little bit buzzed on duty because it makes us more sociable and better salespeople. Also, you know those $800 shore excursions? We get to do them for free, and we get to go up to those big buffet tables after closing and pig out with whatever is left over on the tables.
11:23 is also true, but exaggerated, since we are of course capable of phoning our family to get the latest news, and we all know the free wifi spots in each port if we're desperate for a little internet time.
Richard Thayer I'd love to work at sea. How does one get such a job?
@@coenogo I applied online via Starboard Cruises. They hire gift shop staff for 9 different cruise lines. I got a call a few months later asking me to come to Montreal (the nearest major city to me) to do an interview. Shortly after my interview I received a confirmation that I had gotten the job and they gave me less than a month to obtain an international work visa. Once I got that, they instructed me to fly down to Fort Lauderdale to join the ship. This is specific for if you want to work in the gift shops though (a good position, because you get lots of free time on shore. Gift shops have to be closed in port because they are tax free). For other positions, you would have to apply either directly to the cruise lines (if you want to be a cook, engineer, cabin steward, waiter, etc.) or another agency (for art gallery show persons, entertainers, photographers, etc.).
@@albanovkonrad Thanks for the advice, I'll look into it! I've always had a longing for the high seas, since it's in my blood.
Dude, I'm super glad you had so much fun working aboard, but it isn't like that for everyone, or even the majority. I only went to a free excursion once in two years, and anyway you have to work later. It's not like you go to the beach and then sleep because you're tired. So many times the choice is between resting and going out, because you're likely bound to work 6 or more hours more afterwards. For one day of 'going to the beach/monuments etc.' there are like 15 days of never getting off. During embarkation day I used to work 12+ hours in a single day, and may Heaven help you if you're undermanning. You're also supposed to go the drills whenever there is one, even if you are on break.
Also I never once ate food from the Buffet, it was strictly forbidden , but I suppose it depends on the company.
my gf (which doesn't exist): Let's go on a cruise!
me: don't you mean *morgue on the water?*
Morgue on the Water... sounds like a Death Metal Band name.
Edit: Or a Cruise Line WITH Death Metal Band(s).
Morgue on the waaater
Fire in the sky
have fun getting that out of your head
@@blackm4niac Love it !
@@blackm4niac genius!
@Primedragoon Hot damn man! (Or woman, 'cause idk)
My younger brother works on the ships and 2 years ago on New Years eve my parents were also on board. Now the staff when working are not aloud to have more then 1 or 2 drinks and you are never meant to be drunk on board but as long as you don't draw attention to yourself you should be fine. So my brother was with my parents and they had drank about 3 bottle of wine between them and it was about 1am, my brother gets a call and some poor old man had a heart attack and there was a helicopter on its way and its was my brothers job to coordinate the evac. Luckily he cant have been to intoxicated as everything went fine with the evac, not sure about the old man though
What cruise did your brother work on? Most cruises have wild parties in the crew bar. We were even encouraged to be slightly buzzed on duty because it helped us be more social and better salespeople (I've worked in the gift shops on cruise ships).
@@albanovkonrad I'd rather not say the company name as hes since had a promotion, I know the chances is very slight anyone important would see this but I'd rather not risk it. He was based from Southampton at the time though if that helps. Hes told me plenty of times when hes been insanely drunk, he just said that technically your not meant to be drunk so if your found to have done something stupid you can get in more trouble if your obviously drunk. But I might be getting this a bit wrong, it's been a while since I've heard these stories
Ok, fair enough. Having reread your story it doesn't sound like he was in a position where he had to regularly socialize with passengers (coordinating an evac would be for officers and other deck crew) so it makes sense that he would be encouraged not to drink. I was just thinking of my experience being a low ranking crewmember lol. I was also based from Southampton during my second contract.
@@albanovkonrad I think he had a fair amount of interacting with passengers but he was an officer so had lots of random jobs apparently. Of course if they have a free day in port they get pretty plastered, they just have to be able to sober up for the 30m or so up the gangway haha. How did you like Southampton, I actually live here and can see one of the cruise terminals from my flat which is awesome!
**so drunk the evac helicopter takes the brother instead **
The code is operation rising star when someone dies and if someone is really sick they say operation bright star
Do they call a White Star code when sinking? Sorry, bad cruse line joke.
@@tabytastick Code Black Hole.
Jk.
@@bee5120 I'm not sure which part you're joking about, but White Star Line was the name of the company for Titanic
r/wooosh
@@ZamiDJ r/itswooooshwith4os
Yes. I am the woooosh police.
I got one
I worked for a dinner cruise company for a year. one trip on our way to pick up passengers in a large east coast city we got a high water alarm. This wasn't too unusual due to the slightly rough conditions that evening. I got sent below deck to check it out. Low and behold there was about 18" inches of DIESEL FUEL in the bilge. ( The very bottom of the boat) Turns out the maintenance mechanic forgot to tighten a fuel filter all the way.
@Zach Arbogast nah, more of a environmental issue than a safety one.
@@RobertSzasz Wrong. One spark would have brought the ship down violently.
@@jtm232556 try it. Diesel is crap at forming enough vapor to reach flammability, let alone the lower explosive limit. Gasoline forms vapor clouds.
@@jtm232556 Jay M no...Diesel's flash point is around 55 degrees Celsius. That means the diesel needs to be at around 65 degrees c to be able to catch on fire and stay on fire.
That being said this story is full of shit because the pilot of the ship would notice rapid fuel drainage and alert a mechanic to look at why the hell they are draining diesel so fast. 18 inches of diesel in that area is like a heavy thunderstorm.
Not a worker but a story I heard :
I went on a cruise to Alaska last summer during August, My family had told me that cruise ships just go to dock, get cleaned out, then leave for the next cruise.
So one-day my older cousin's go to a little q&a with one of the ships captians and when it was over, my cousin went up the him and asked if anyone has died or fell behind on a cruise the captain has been on and it was revealed that the week before, one of the ships workers had jumped off the boat (we were on) in the middle of the night.
The reason why wasn't known and the body hasn't been found, they were still searching while we were on the boat.
Mental note, if ever running a cruise ship, use Linux instead of Windows.
Yo
@@xylynthian753 Heya
@Zach Arbogast
I dont know. The hardware is expensive and from all the issues the recent macs have, I'd say it's not that great. I guess theres always running it on a VM, but that's just another thing to add complexity. IMO linux is just the most flexible, as it can be installed to pretty much anything, you pick what software and programs you need, with minimal bloat, and it has the community to support it.
Or, you know, have IT that knows what it is doing. There's no way any competent IT staff is allowing the computers to update whenever the hell they want or all at the same time. They might be using Windows for very specific reasons that cannot be addressed by another OS but letting the OS dictate maintenance and updates to you is beyond incompetent.
@@animalcookie I get that. But from experience, Windows is pretty fussy that it gets updated. Microsoft doesnt make it too easy to disable automatic restarts in some cases. This is more evident on Windows 10, as you've probably heard about. Not saying its impossible, and yeah, IT should know this, but still.
Also something I've noticed with Linux, is it usually can update stuff on the fly while the system is running. Sometimes it does need to be rebooted, it'll usually say when you log in an SSH session "SYSTEM RESTART REQUIRED", where you can reboot as it says, or you could leave it as is until a suitable opportunity arises.
Also personally, I find Linux to be more reliable for running for longer periods of time. You know where sometimes something goes wonky with Windows, where you usually just need to reboot it to correct it? I havent experienced this with Linux yet. Probably depends on what's running on it though.
One final thing, you can run windows applications in Linux, it does take some setting up but it can be done. Or the program could be rebuilt and rewritten for it.
"All of the computer systems run on Windows 7"
Oh nice, relatively recent I was expecting XP at best.
Wait they have auto-updates turned on?!? What sort of floating deathtrap are you on!?!
And then the internet goes down while updating XD
Ive gone on Carnival very recently. DONT BUY THEIR WIFI a lot of people who did said it was slow and hardly functional. It’s not worth it if you can’t use it.
I’m on the carnival magic rn lol the WiFi is shit
Yeah, I went on a trip a few years ago and the internet was straight up unusable.
One of the best parts of a cruise is being disconnected from the whole world so the WiFi is pretty stupid
THEYRE WIFI IS SO BAD
Your first mistake is going on carnival
Ok little note to self: DONT GET DRUNK ON A SHIP
Andy Rocker unless you’re sinking 😂
Cruise ship: we have enough for for a month!
Another cruise ship: we've been stranded in the ocean for a few days... So all you get to eat is a piece of cheese on a bun
Ship computers run on windows? Haaaahaaaaaaaaaa good try there. The most modern computer ive seen on a damn ship is some 1990s version of windows server.
And it wasnt even for the ship computers, that was for the crew computers. For NOT looking at porn. You know, totally using it to do crew training and reading up on things online...
The navy uses windows xp, but it's alright becuase it's the *proffessional* edition
This is why nasa uses Linux
This is a good reason why you might use linux
Also, its free
World:
lets just use windows bandera
Windows 7 also doesn't update randomly if you configure it not to. So I call bs on that story.
@@FireballFlamei remind you that there was once a time when many people did not know how to use a browser.
Wow... I almost won a cruise if it didn't turn out to be a timeshare scam.
Cruises are awesome. My first one was nothing special, made the normal procedure (breakfast, go to the coast and enjoy where we are placed, lunch generally outside, then in the evening go back to the ship, go to the restaurant to eat dinner and then go to the casino/bars/parties/theater).
The second I befriend one of the musicians that worked in the bar next to the pool and I asked about what they did in their free time. He said they sleep about 3 to 4 hours per day but every day after the passengers go to sleep they party on the bar in deck 13th. He invited me and I went their 3 nights. There were few veteran passengers that love cruises and crew members. I got to know the captain and the vice captain in different nights, the bartenders made different drinks. I drank a wine that only the high crew members drink and was one of the most entertaining people in the place. It was a blast.
"OH MY GOD WHY ISN'T THE FIRE GOING OUT?!"
"There's a window update right now... -.-"
"Oh... WELP I GUESS WE'RE POSSIBLY DYING :D"
DON'T WORRY IT'S A .....
SECURITY UPDATE!
@@coldfusionstormgaming1808 Well that helped a lot. *Now the windows won't open*
The Costa Concordia sank out of arrogance on the Captain's part. He had been drinking and tried to show off how close to land he could get and then the ship ran aground and tore a hole in the hull.
wait, how the hell is there "jurisdiction" in a medical emergency case like that?
majorPhysics I don’t know. I’m a nurse and have never heard of that. Wherever in the world I am I will do CPR, as will any medical professional I know
"Unless windows is updating." BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
*75% of the reddit posts:* Old people dying.
I've been on a LOT of cruises, and from the top of my head I remember at least 2 of them when someone died. One of them a lady had a some sort of terrible accident and had to be air lifted out. And another time while the missus and I were having dinner at the restaurant an elderly lady had a heart attack right in front of us. She lived, thankfully, and we ended up having a chat to her the next day.
Edit: One of the cruises we were on, the ship was the P&O Pacific Explorer, the seas were super choppy and we were travelling perpendicular to the surf. The ship was hit by a wave that smashed two windows and drenched a bunch of people in the restaurant, children as well. The missus and I were at the bar when it happened and the whole side of the ship shook and stuttered. A lot of the ship was flooded that night and the captain had to turn the engines off and let the current take us back south. The current was so strong that we traveled twice the distance we did through throughout the day by just drifting south over night. It was pretty eventful to say the least.
My Nana told me a story about a cruise she was on. A man had passed away and his family, who were also on the ship, decided he should be buried at sea. The crew hadn’t done this procedure in a while so they had a practice before the funeral. They loaded him on the chute and practiced sending his body off, but they weren’t meant trip the switch to actually let him go. Something went wrong, however, and body slipped down and into the sea. The family later cried over sacks of potatoes in a body bag as it was let down the chute.
3:54 did a little research and there was a sister ship called the costa concordia that sank due to colliding with a submerged rock, it capsized and was a complete loss, they found the wreck and towed the ship for scrapping. The captain got into a LOT of trouble and charged with manslaughter. Dang.
....... Yes, this was major news when it happened so it's ingrained into the collective knowledge. That's why the OP didn't give too many details on the sister ship.
@@DominicMV yeah i just needed a refresh of what happened thats why i looked it up
I was on a carnival curse and someone employee who was working on the elevator got crushed by it and died. Now one found out until 2 weals later
True story - I worked a cruise ship once for a few months. On one occasion, we travelled through a well known bad stretch of water during the night and I noticed a warship coming towards us. Not knowing what it was doing I grabbed the deck phone and contacted the ship to let them know there was a warship off the starboard aft. I was told that it was a cargo ship to which I replied "Cargoships do not normally have a bloody big gun on the foredeck and come armed with missiles!". The Captain then got on the radio and asked what the heck it was doing to which the US navy warship (who else!) said it was using us to train its crew. Skipper said that if it did not leave in the next thirty seconds, he would assume it was a pirate and take appropriate steps
Ship backed off and none of our passengers even knew about it
What would you do? Nothing?
@@The1Hawks2 The Captain told us that he would have considered it an act of attempted piracy and put out a general distress call
And that would do what? Someone going to fire on the us navy? Empty threat.
The1Hawks2 no but the us captain would get in big trouble back home for causing an embarrassing incident
5:55 that’s actually grounds for a family member to sue. When taking the job of a doctor nurse medic etc you have what’s known as a duty to act where you don’t let jurisdiction rules etc dictate if you render aid or not. Saw a similar case (I’m Florida where I’m an EMT.) where a guy coded (went in to cardiac arrest) in the parking lot of a hospital. The hospital staff was not able to retrieve and work the man because he wasn’t in the facility. Fire rescue had to be called to the scene and bring the man in. The patient died.
‘A fire isn’t a problem, unless windows xp is updating’
Dead 😂
I worked on cruise ships we would get 14 hours free wifi, then you would need to pay though you get better signal paying roaming charges, the most strange thing is when I broke my arm on board loading and I was still on stretcher duty in emergency evacuations, so when a drill came by you could see the guests just stare at me, stretcher in one hand, plaster arm in sling on the other.
So I was on this cruise ship, and we were on our way to some random aquapolis idk. A zombie virus broke out while we were on board. I escaped, this was back in 2005. I later learned it was a Veltro base or whatever I don’t even know. #ResidentEvil
A zombie game set on a big cruise ship would be pretty cool though to be honest
@@FloatingOer *cough* Resident Evil Revelations *cough*
ScreenPlay Germany correct!
FloatingOer Look up Resident Evil Revelations
@@FloatingOer Voyage of dispair
I want to work on a cruise ship now
>Hear family taking the grandparents on a cruise
*Am now deeply concerned*
Ah, yes, the ole Death Cruise. I hope you're included in the will, dear anon.
Honestly, i would be more worried if all the ships computers would run on Win 10...the moment that crapfest hits any vital system computer im off the boat immediately
Tangibly close. I got a neighbor who used to work on a local ferry line around the coast of Finland, he was working at the bar (even though he was an engineer on board) one night, When a worried passenger came up to the bar looking nervous as hell. He got talking with the passenger and found out they guy was worried because of the rough seas, neighbor tells him "Dont worry, we are as safe as the M/S Estonia". (She was a well known ship at the time and pride for safety measures).
Same night the Ferry takes an unexpected detour, turns out while my Neighbor had been chatting with the passenger, the radio operator and captain had been furiously trying to communicate with the Estonia and mainland, the Estonia was taking on water fast, she sank claiming 852 lives, his ship the Mariella was one of the first ships to arrive on the scene.
I used to be a bartender for not a cruise, but this boat that took you to an island(They still had refreshments and it took 3 days to reach the island). This particular boat had this kind of area that had a cut out on the floor, and some rope there (This was long ago, and I only worked at the very top of the 2 floor boat. So I don't know how they did that.)Think of those rope jungle gym climbing things that you use to go to the slide part. That, but on the floor. The rope was neated up and colored white with cushions, so it was very popular. The max of people that could be here was 3. A fourth person came in. The rope was a little stretched... a fifth person came in. They were, um.. Big Smoke basically. And... RIP. It ripped. Everyone was fine. And since you had to book the VIP section, there were little people that wanted to pay the extra million Bolivarés just for especial drinks, the rope lounge, and a sun chair. Anyway, everyone admitted it was their fault and were embarassed a little, especially this girl that told the two other people, including Big Smoke, that they could lay with them. Nobody was allowed to sit there for the rest of the trip. If you see any spelling errors, tell me!
People get free ice cream when someone dies to make room in the freezer. I should not have laughed so hard at that.
9:12 like yeah.. You ain't dying unless Windows is updating 😂
NICE!
I've been on cruises with huge spring break crews (80+ people) and the workers would tend to cut loose with us. I've gotten drunk with them, but I've also seen the other side. The captain and security team sending people to the cruise jail and threatening to leave people at port. All in all, in a big obnoxious group like that, the workers tend to drop their act more (both good & bad).
There was one family who found out it would cost so much to put an elderly relative in an old people's home, that they put her on a cruise ship instead. Not just for one cruise, she LIVED on it... and had a fully qualified doctor and "hospital" within walking distance, and a different view from the window every day.
Being thrown overboard in foggy conditions with no chance of survival is fucking terrifying. I’d swim to the closest shark and let him do his magic on me
I remember my nan said the when she was little she saw coffins being loaded on to her cruise ship...not the most comforting first image before sailing...
So basically, get drunk when people are still awake and can save you if you yeet off the boat.
Fires are pretty common from my research. Titanic had a huge fire raging for days, before they even started across the Atlantic. Some theories about why the iceberg was able to pierce the hull so easily is because the fire weakened it.
Renee Eliott I believe it had a fire in the coal storage below deck correct me if I’m wrong
@@steammachine2136 Correct. In the coal bunkers next to a main bulkhead and close to the hull in approximately the exact place that had been hit by the iceberg. The bulkhead was reportedly warping before they left England, and several of the below deck crew actually exited at ports before they began sailing across the Atlantic because of the magnitude of the fire. Which is saying something because I don't think coal fires on ships were especially rare back then.
My grandpa died on a cruise. It was horrible for my family. My grandma, aunt, brother and cousin were all with him at the time staying in the same cabin. He had a heart attack.
The medic crew on board did CPR even though we were in Australian waters and his medical notes said do not resuscitate because he was so ill. They worked on him for over 30 minutes. Very traumatizing for my grandma who was in the room with him as he died.
For that last one, can you imagine if some of the people on that cruise were on land touring whatever foreign city they were in and suddenly their entire cruise ship is gone? Wild
I am from Cozumel, Mexico. I heard the same story from a cruiseship member. I also know about people who book really expensive rooms on cruise ships, spend all their money on casinos and alcohol and, when they ran out of money, they jump out of the boat or hung themselves in the hotel rooms.
I'm glad I found this video AFTER my cruise in Greece
on my first cruise, three people died.
1. the guy that made the omlettes of a morning jumped overboard. had to turn the boat around to find him. never saw him again.
2. a boring food poisoning death.
3. an old guy died of a heart attack.
long story short, fun cruise.
I would've watched the rest of this...but the voice was killing it for me
I was on a cruise two summers ago and we stopped at Freeport a few days in. I wasn’t feeling well that day, so I decided to nap in my cabin while my family explored the place. Five minutes later, I was awoken by an announcement to the crew that one of the pipes burst on the fourth floor of the ship and completely soaked the area. I’m pretty sure people found out once they reboarded, but I sure never got any sleep.
Last cruise I went on got delayed at a port in the Caribbean because an old man got off there and ending up dying while off the ship. That seriously must happen all the time.
I heard a story about a navy sailor who had just got off a deployment and went on a cruise. He woke up one night and heard engine problems, so he walked down to the machinery space, fixed it up, then went back to his room.
Do...do the fire suppression systems also run on Windows 7?
Highly likely.
I went on a cruise for thanksgiving with my grandmother, and when we were headed back to Florida, the captain made an announcement and said that a crew member went missing. We ended up leaving port about an hour or two later than expected because searches were going on everywhere. He must have been gone at least for a day before passengers found out. After we left port, a police boat came to the side of the ship and stayed for a few minutes before leaving again. Then an ambulance was back at the Florida port after our cruise ended. I hope they found him and he didn't drown at sea...
2:55 "Crew members having eggs" Fucking wild party.
That married couple will remember that day for the rest of their lives.
If I am chillin 24/7 and you are working a 6-12 hour shift AND THEN chilling in a crew only bar area, how are you having more fun? Were doing the same shit except I have no strings attached and can leave afterwards.
Kaka Pepe they’re getting paid for those shifts while you probably dropped a grand
I went on a Mediterranean cruise a few years back. I celebrated my birthday in Venice by taking an island tour excursion that afternoon, then going to St. Mark's at night for some gelato. I was exhausted by the time back on board the ship that night, with just enough time to sit down for a very late dinner. This was long after the scheduled dinners had ended, so I could sit anywhere I wanted instead of my usual assigned table. Even before I ordered anything, the waitress was already checking me out, especially my hair. Then she found out it was my birthday. She took every opportunity she could to brush up against me, lightly touched my arm, and ran a hand through my hair a couple of times. There was no mistaking that for some accidental touching or being friendly to the customer. I know that European women are more direct when it comes to flirting and romance, but I was not expecting that. I didn't plan on having a fling on a cruise, so I didn't pack any condoms. I love women and appreciate the gestures and obvious signals, but it *really* wasn't the time! I never saw her again, what a shame.
Not sure if this counts but...
I took a cruise to the bahamas a few years ago and found out that our luggage was never actually put onto the boat. Somehow my dad's stuff made it on though. We kept asking about it and at first they tried to play it off like they didn't know what we were talking about, then they said that it was still in a terminal back in Miami (we had to fly to Miami to board the ship) or something like that. Then they kept telling us that it was going to be shipped to the ship then finally they admitted that they didn't know where it was. It took us two days to get to the Bahamas and the ship didn't have any toothpaste or toiletries. It was awful. When we got there, they told my mom and I that we could purchase I believe up to $500 dollars worth of stuff as long as we showed them the receipts. (It could only be stuff that we truly needed like clothes, underwear, sleepwear, swimsuits, etc.) Trust and believe, the first things I bought was a toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, soap and lotion and I rushed right back onto the ship to shower and brush my teeth. (we were taking showers but we had to split a tiny hotel bottle of body wash which didn't last us very long) On the morning of the very last day, they slid a letter under our door letting us know that our luggage would be arriving soon. We got it about an hour later.
There was another instance where everyone started getting sea sick on the last day because we were going through a storm. You couldn't really hear much from inside of the ship so people were looking around wondering what was happening. Thankfully the choppy waters didn't make me sick but the swaying motion made my dad and I drop dead tired. I had to keep forcing myself to get up and move around because if I did so much as sit for more than 10 minutes, I'd fall asleep. What sucked even more was that everything on the cruise was for people 21 and older and I was only 18 at the time so there really wasn't much that I could do.
Crankcase EXPLOSION? Holy hell! Surely the passengers noticed that!
Worked for a cruise line for 7 years as a chief waiter. Quit to go back and complete my education 6 months ago.Ask anything.
Edit:Here's one. In 2013 while we were in Mexico, Cozumel, 5 of us went to the local topless bar, on the way back,the only sober guy among us had no driver's licence on him, the rented jeep had issues with the steering system, it started raining, we crashed, but were fine.Cops came, the guy that was driving got arrested and put in the holding cell with 30ish or so people that just got arrested during the armed robbery of local Diamonds international.The police was entering the holding cell from time to time to shout at them and beat them. The hotel director and the staff captain came to negotiate his release. Few hours and 7000$ later he got released. TON of paparazzi were in front of the station trying to get pics and statements regarding the robbery. His confused ass ended up in the newspapers with the robbery story.
I don’t need this information.
-2 AM
Yes i do
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~1985 i was stationed (USN / USMC Corpsman, and was a ABH before HM) reserves in Seattle area going to college and applied to couple cruise ships for summer work. Was told "Too Qualified". Why would they NOT be interested in a USN Sailor who had been on 2 USN ships and 2 West PACs level of experience? Probably because USN Sailor even Enlisted would see them cutting corners r/t Safety at Sea?
Dead to Self too qualified? Wth that even mean.
@@mehoyminoy1326 Too qualified can mean any number of things. It can mean you're too old, or they don't think you'll fit into the team, or even that you really are too qualified and you'd start asking questions about the way things are done instead of following orders blindly (you're right, they don't exactly have old-fashioned military discipline on board these cruise liners when it comes to safety). That might be why he was rejected.
@@mehoyminoy1326 first Vulpes is correct. Navy personnel are highly trained on ships. Navy vs cruise ships are very different in experience at sea. Navy personnel are trained many basics of seamanship, cruise ships are not. Over the years I have learned Most Navy won't go on cruise ship, not because they are tired of going to Sea, we love that, but just look at the last few years news on cruise ship disasters. Yes USN has had their share also, the difference is how it was handled.
At that time I had driven a Carrier, and a Supply Ship, paint, sweep and swab, basics of both boilers and Nuclear propulsion, fight fires and bulkhead damage, man overboard situations, anchors, lines for at port and at sea and list goes on. Navy know most shortcuts that can cause harm and or place the ship and people into danger. As Vulpes stated we don't work blindly.
Too qualified is a oxymoron for hiring people, but it is done often ask a family elder, you will get many stories on employment experiences.
I started college in my late twenties. The college had a policy that all single freshmen had to live in the Dorms. I was older than the Dorm Mother. She had a problem with that if she ever had to discipline me. (I had been in the USN USMC for about 8 years by then). They moved me to college apartments. In a way i was too qualified to live in the Dorms.
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Well, you know what they say, if there is ice cream party, someone just taken the freezer space
Alaska finally got a mention, wooo
"What's your retirement plan"
I don't see anything wrong about dying on a cruise ship that I choose as my retirement home. To look out one last time over the Caribbean waters on my deck cabin with my wife/family by my side doesnt bad at all. Id prefer it. Id leave a big tip for the hazmat team, security and cabin boy/girl, with a small apology/thank you letter. Would just hope I managed to smuggle some type of form of THC onboard so I can go out high af.
I need only mention one Event...Yarmouth Castle (old "Fun-ship" going from Florida to the Bahamas Caught fire in 1965, most crew abandoned ship without passengers, Fire Suppression systems all either Not working or so low pressure that they were like those sprayers at store vegetable Isles, in total 90 people died out of the 552 Passengers and crew on-board, Ship Continues to Burn for a few hours, until at around 6 AM as the water around the ship was literally boiling and her hull was red-hot, her engines Violently Exploded causing her to roll over and Finally sink)
I worked on a ship that had a code that would be announced if we needed to abandon ship when there were non-crew members on board. It was "Cherry".
6:37 CHOCOLATE RAIN
Nothing like Hershey's with nuts!
If I die on a cruise, throw my ass over. I’d rather be fish food than worm food 😂
So it's full of seniors at deaths door and staff who hurl themselves overboard. Sign me up.
NO!
A day and a half gets added to the journey.
Passengers: OH HECK OH FRICK WE'RE GOING TO RUN OUT OF FOOD AND HAVE TO RESORT TO CANNIBALISM
Well if people die at the Fair, it stands to reason that they would occasionaly die onboard a cruise ship.
I don't understand why people dying on cruiships, theme parks and plane flights is so fascinating to Americans, seems pretty normal to me. I can only guess that death is so hidden and santitized in the US that the idea of it happening on a vacation just blows people's minds?
@@Ezrablynx yeah people die everywhere. Vacation destinations are part of everywhere.
When I went on a cruise with my parents and extended family, my uncle got really drunk one night in his and his wife’s cabin. They started having an argument and because my uncle was drunk he was screaming that he was going to jump overboard and take his wife with him (they were staying in a balcony unit). Security was called and about 15 crew members & security came to their room. They spent 2 hours questioning my uncle and his wife, decided that my uncle was bluffing and cut off his alcoholic drinks package. For the rest of the cruise, almost everyone knew my uncle by name and knew what he had threatened.
when i went on a cruise last october, when we were boarding some old dude had a heart attack and died right before we got on, the ship was the carnival dream
As chilean, I can totally see another chilean getting so drunk that he hurled himself.. yeah, we're a bunch of drunks.
When I went on my first cruise, there were three old people that I knew for a fact were on board. My grandparents, and former president Jimmy Carter. None of them died on the trip.
I now have a retirement plan.
My parents were on a cruise where there had been some emergency crew changes and the Captain went full TIFU and went to a wrong city. Instead of docking in Stockholm they ended up some 600 km via highway away. Apparently the guy forgot they were standing in for another crew and did their usual route.
How about cargo ships, etc. tho? My dad worked there before and he said there would be people who would climb and hide inside their ship. Once they found out, they would throw the guy onto the water and gave him a life vest and food as they are not allowed to smuggle people from one place to another. They felt bad for the guy but they have no choice and was already far from the land. Did anyone here have the same experience?
4:29 oh yeah I remember that. I was 10/11 at the time so I wasn't really interested and don't remember details, but the sinking of the Concordia brought one hell of a shitstorm to Italy. The Captain (I think Schettino was his name) got into A LOT of legal trouble. There was a parody song shittalking him going around, and I remember my entire school (we're still talking elementary) singing it for MONTHS during break and stuff. I don't think a single person living in Italy at that time that was old enough to remember didn't hear about it. It really was a big deal
There's an entitled parent store floating around where she brought her kid sick with the norovirus and she said because she spend so much money her sick kid should partake in everything the cruise had to offer. The pools, the buffet, etc etc. As you would expect, she caused a huge outbreak and the ship was blocked from entering ports. The poster's family recovered towards the end of the trip and were able to walk around the nearly deserted ship.
1:27 - For the love of fuck, someone tell me dude was listening to "I believe I can fly" so I can die in peace
I was on a cruise and on the deck where it was just railing stopping you from the sea was like a scene out of a horror movie
That explains why my dad and every other doctor he knows who goes on a cruise ends up doing unpaid work
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> *clicks on this video thinking it will be good*
>> *text-to-speech robot voice*
> Well, fuck.
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ok my parents are both pastors and we went on this cruise to the bahamas and like 5 people on the ship died (all elderly, if heart attacks and the like) and 4 of the 5 families were very upset and asked to talk to a pastor... so my parents had to console these poor people, all while the staff was trying to pretend no one died so thag it didn’t cause a panic . it was weird, we don’t go on cruises anymore
That moment when the boat is on fire but barely anybody notices because Microsoft insists you update your computer.