How Cruise Ships Work

The cruise industry is extremely efficient and subject to strange regulations.

*The end of this video includes a paid sponsored promotion. This company had no part in the writing, editing, or production of the rest of the video.

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[jaquestrap]

Boy, I'm so sick of having to remember my passwords all the time. I need to go on a cruise.

[CleoPhoenixRT]

You finessed the heck out of that ad transition. I sat here for a while thinking "ohhh ok, so they're using this software for the room doors now or..." 😂😂

[CrossingTalkAdmin]

It took me like 20 seconds to realize that was an ad. Bravo.

[chris]

That was a pretty sneaky way to sell password software.

When did we start talking about passwords 😂

[Jcloz]

Yo I didn't even realize what was going on for a second with that password stuff. It was like hypnosis.

[LetsDriveSomewhere]

6:41 .... feels like ... SOMEBODY WANTS TO SELL ME SOMETHING!

[vicente]

Finally, I can enjoy my cruise without the unnecessary stress of forgetting several different unique passwords. Thanks Dashlane.

[Amar]

I was working for 2 years active (i.e. 24 months of active-duty, but not in a row, since a contract cannot last longer than 9 months according to International Maritime Labor Laws at that time), on cruise ships as a barboy, bar-server and lastly bartender.

Honestly, I could go on a huge rant about a lot of things about my experience working there, but I'll settle on one specific issue for now, and that is working hours. Under those aforementioned International Maritime Labor Laws, you can't work more than 77 hours a week, however, many work far more, and it a lot of cases it would be impossible to make a profit and keep the ship running if they worked less. They would either have to employ more people, which would mean that crew-quarters would take up more space, which all adds up to huge additional costs, or keep the ship not running 24/7, which, as the video explained, would also mean huge losses for the company. To make matters worse, under those same laws, you just can't work those ~11 hours a day in one go (with maybe a lunch break), but there are strict regulations about how long you can work, which makes your work hours scattered throughout the day, making it not quite uncommon to work 4 hours in the morning, 3 in the afternoon and another 4 in the evening. This means that you'll have 6 hours of rest guaranteed (by the laws) at least once in the day, but to get more you have to have a good manager to schedule everything nicely for everybody. Imagine now that you have to get a good bag of sleep, eat, and groom yourself in those 6 hours! Quite impossible... and the rest of the breaks, you are busy doing your room for inspections, having regular safety drills, or pesky safety trainings (pesky because it's the same thing all over again, and again, and again). And sometimes you try to get 1-3 hrs of port-time.

It's horrific. Of course, for people from impoverished countries who used to either work on farms from morning 'till evening, or people who lived in slums and such, such conditions are nothing compared to the hardships of their previous life, and they are more than happy for the opportunity to work on a cruise ship where they are making more than ten times what most people make in their country. That is understandable, and the companies are exploiting that to the fullest. That is why one will see less and less people from Eastern European & Balkan countries on cruise ships. We just don't have it that bad to justify such work conditions anymore.

Lastly, I do want to say that it is not only bad for people in the Food & Beverage or Hotel Department, but also for the officers. Most of them prefer to work on tankers an such, but cruise liners usually pay more tho.


And all of this is just the tip of the iceberg of what is happening behind the scenes.

[tobysandoz]

who came here when he transitioned to passwords

[jacobmorris]

"The last thing you want to do on vacation is cook, or clean, or remember passwords" ROFL! Smooth... Fascinating video regardless.

[ufyknow]

*Honestly, I thought he was trying to tell us that you need a special password to get on the ship*

[SAMACSTUDIOS]

That is the best Transition into a sponsorship I have ever heard in my life. I didn't even realize it was an ad at first

[ElmirKouliev]

I was looking forward to a video on the inner engineering mechanics of a cruise ship lol

[jairrivera]

Umm i thought i was high when I started hearing about passwords 😂💀 when did it even start lmao

[terrorism]

that ad transition was beautiful, well done.

[MinazukiKajishiro]

We're not forced to stay in our cabins after work, in fact we're allowed to wander around the ship (guest areas) as long as we have the name tag(most companies follow this). The reason we decide to stay in our cabins or hit the crew bar is because we work 10 to 11 hours a day without a day off, i was part of Restaurant team on Harmony of the Seas and my contract was 6 months long. 95% of crew is consisted of (philipine, indonesia, india, caribbean etc) which means their monthly wage is equal to their country standards that's why you don't see american employees anymore. Cheap manual labor is what brings them real income, in fact my ship used to hit 400 million revenue a year (single ship). You did explain basic cruise ship but there's much more to it. And it just get's worse. It was a decent presentation.

[adamsipione]

Damn I made it 35 seconds into that Dashlane ad before I realized it wasn't part of the actual video

[grimble]

This video got me from "I'm never setting foot on a cruise ship because the whole experience sounds unbelievably stupid" to "I'd go on a cruise ship once just to appreciate the sheer effort they put in"

[KerbalRocketry]

I hate this new trend of transitioning straight into trying to sell viwers stuff, broadcasting regulations state there must be a seperation between entertainment and advertisment, the breaking of this barrier is a worrying trend in the online world as it could see enforcement of regulations.