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What things can go wrong on a cruise ship that are very bad for people onboard? Isn't a life boat just a short run away?
by brador 13y ago
What things can go wrong on a cruise ship that are very bad for people onboard? Isn't a life boat just a short run away?
- mkramlich 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia or if you're of a different age: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
- brador 13y ago2 incidents in 100 years, seems safe...
- pavel_lishin 13y agoThose are only the two he mentioned off the top of his head.
- kayoone 13y agoAnd how many planes come down per year ? The probability of something like that is extremely low. Life is risky, you also have a theoretical risk of dying of a heart attack every second.
- slg 13y agoThings can also go wrong sleeping in your bed at night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_fransisco_earthquake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_fransisco_earthquake
- mkramlich 13y agoread the comment to which I replied. it will put it in context.
- chollida1 13y agoNo power for 3-4 days. Google "cruise ship no power", it happens more often than you'd think That means -no showers - no toilets flushing. - No internet - no hot meals
- lifeformed 13y agohttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fire-carnival-cruise-ship-strands-4-200-article-1.1261258 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fire-carnival-cruis... Oh god, that sounds nightmarish.
- blisterpeanuts 13y agoNorovirus.
- sanskritabelt 13y agoNorovirus by itself is enough to keep me off cruise ships. http://www.cdc.gov/features/norovirus/ http://www.cdc.gov/features/norovirus/
- mehmehshoe 13y agoI thought I'd share an interesting segment from Tina Fey's book regarding her honeymoon cruise when a fire broke out on the boat. "In the event of an emergency, it is the entertainers who are in charge of the lifeboats. Because the rest of the crew has actual nautical duties, the kids from Fiesta Caliente are trained to man the lifeboats. If you ever have to get on a lifeboat, the person in charge of your safety will likely be a nineteen-year-old dancer from Tampa who just had a fight with his boyfriend about the new Rihanna video. James also told me that each lifeboat has a gun on it and that once a lifeboat is in the water, the performer–lifeboat captain is trained to shoot anyone who is disruptive. This is apparently legal in accordance with maritime law."
- mildavw 13y agoI worked on a cruise ship as an entertainer and can confirm this. Except for the gun part. We had lifeboat assignments and had drills each cycle before the passengers arrived. We were trained on getting people in, not what to do once in the water.
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- dmckeon 13y agoWide-spread gastro-intestinal illnesses - google "cruise" and "norovirus" http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/gilist.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/gilist.htm It is important to distinguish among cruise outcomes - I'd rather experience a 24-36 hour power outage than a fire that resulted in passengers at sea in lifeboats, but there appear to be some narratives that conflate "our honeymoon was not what I had dreamed of" with "captured, burned, sunk, and destroyed" without any points on a scale in between. Third party advice I'd heard on cruising: avoid the very cheapest lines choose an operator with a generally nordic background (not flag/registration, more company origin).