Cruise ship workers, what was the biggest 'OH S%!T!' moment on the boat?

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[impagain]

It's often cheaper for old folks to just continually live on a cruise ship than it is to pay for a retirement home, so a lot of old people just retire and die on cruise ships. Beats wasting away in a hospital bed.

[lisaj]

There I was just looking for the ice cream and... bodies! 😂😢😅

[charityquill]

Story 6 was tragic, but it was so sweet to see how much the passengers were trying to help

[michaeledmunds]

"He went home due to his health issues" well, they aren't wrong

[kinorris]

Okay, so, I know there's gonna be a few "old people dead" stories. This is actually not as grim as it seems. Retiring to a cruise liner is a more pleasant way to pay your soul's final rent in your body before the reaper evicts you, than being miserable in a hospital or crappy eldercare home. A last, enjoyable trip. It's also often more affordable than paying to go into said homes. The line makes money, the old people get to do what they want before they go. When you think about it, it's a mostly win-win scenario. Apart from the unpleasantness and shock of finding/dealing with the remains.

My grandfather refused to go to hospital towards the end, stubborn old man he was. Think he knew it wasn't long, and he wanted to live what he had left happy rather than survive longer but miserable, so I understand why for many, it's a more desirable way to spend the end of their life. It was hard on us losing him like that, but we all agree it was probably better for him.

[SevenGC]

Almost went from Purple Rain to Chocolate Rain there for a second lmfao!

[ethangames]

As a sailing instructor I went through a lot of emergencies, one time in a race I was in while hendeling the main sail I found s broken shakel, asked for a rope from my friend (he used it to secure his hat) when he asked I simply noded my head to the broken shakel he froze as this was extremely dangerous and we then replaced the shakel with the rope. Captain will never know that the only reason he didn't get hit in the head by a loose boom was that I wasn't paying attention

[samanthamcgahan]

Straight up and honest, a cruise sounds like a little slice of hell - too many people, in a restricted space, with water as far as the eye can see ... uh uh!! I'd need to drink a helluva lot to keep my coolth!! 😂

[tenorsaxy]

Oh shit, I was on the Costa Serena in 2012 too. I was one of the few people in my groups who had an international cell phone and I got so many calls and texts to check and make sure we were all okay. It was a trip with my college band

[Unajet]

For my honeymoon, we decided to go on a Disney cruise in September 1991. First half was great, but during the second half we ended up having to divert off course to go around a hurricane. The ocean rocked for over a day, I couldn't eat anything, and couldn't deal with leaving my cabin during the last port for just feeling sick. Interesting trip, but I'll choose a non-hurricane month next time.

[montecorbit]

At 5:42
Body fridge....

Most cruise ships, I have been told, have a morgue on board. Of course they would have a body fridge!!

At 7:17
If a sailor on a US submarine dies while out to sea, They put them in the freezer with the food. If it's close to the beginning of the cruise, they will pull out enough ice cream to fit the body in. You don't need the ice cream, it's there for morale. I suppose in this case if you're best friend was laying in the freezer it might help him morale to eat your rocky road that he liked so much....

[yasininn]

Man, I remember when the concordia sink, made National news in Italy. The captain didn't even stay to assure everybody had boarded the safety ships, he just dipped in one of his own and let his own ship sink, which did sink because he got too close to the coast. He's still a joke everywhere in Italy to this day and also still in prison I believe.

[techguydilan]

Someone I know was a steward on a cruise ship. Said it's quite common for dying people to book one to get one last vacation in before they kick the bucket. And quite a few times they end up dying while on said vacation.

[jonesnori]

I stuck it out for quite a while, but the moving background was making me (appropriately, I guess) seasick. I had to close it down. It would be so much nicer to read these on a static background.

[lewis]

the really bad part you never hear about... on some/ maybe even most/ cruise ships the below decks crew are from third world countries work 16 hours a day and are never allowed out of their work areas in the lowest part of the ship. They cannot leave the ships in port because they usually dont have the proper papers and besides they are needed to get the ship ready for the next cruise.
They can often be below decks for months at a time. They are paid the wages they would earn back home in their third world country as well. Far less than the first world wages.

[johannesbols]

4:44 the cruise line had no business bothering passengers to donate to the dead crew member's family; the effin cruise lines makes billions in profits. A$$holes.

[northernstarmovies]

One time, In the MTS Oceanos. I was watching the band play music but then the lights went off. Passengers didn’t know what it happened but I went down to the engine and Water was coming! Then, It begun sinking. The Oceanos didn’t have enough lifeboats, So the rest of passengers (1, 252) was airlifted to South Africa, The rest went into the lifeboats. I found out why it leaked. The Ship has a hole patch and due to rough waves it popped out. No one died.

[darthcravus]

I've been on one cruise I was 16 or so and I had a full beard so never got carded and me and my older sister kept buying the drinks of the day we ran up quite the bill for our parents ... whoops

[bobdrooples]

When one of the passengers was kidnapped and their answer was to forcefully remove the other 5 family members from the boat and leave.

[Trikeboy]

I don't work on ships, but I'm a coach driver that takes passengers on tours when cruise ships make port in northern Scotland. A couple of months ago I took a group of people on a standard tour. When we got back a few hours later, we noticed blue flashing lights (emergency vehicles) at the head of the pier, along with a helicopter. Myself, and other coaches were lined up to get people back on the boat but the police weren't allowing anyone on yet. It turns out that one of the crew was working on the ropes securing gang plank to the ship. Something happened and he fell forward off the gang plank and landed head first on the concrete pier. He was airlifted to hospital but sadly died. They were unable to keep it a secret as there were a few buses on the pier for the afternoon tours that were already filled so the passengers were witnesses. It also came out that the captain was standing nearby and tried to save the crewman but didn't get to him in time.