'Water pipe burst [...] and soaked ALL of the spare toilet paper': 15+ cruise ship fiascos passengers never found out about

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    "There was an infestation of lice"
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    r/AskReddit Posted by u/imDudekid Cruise Ship workers of reddit, what was the biggest "oh " moment on the boat, that luckily, passengers didn't find out about at all? 6.7k Comments
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    myjobisawesome. Water pipe burst in a store room and soaked ALL of the spare toilet paper. This was on day 2 of a 14 day voyage to Antarctica. The cabin stewards had to swap around rolls of paper between "low use" and "high use" guest cabins and it came right down the wire. None of the guests found out or realized. Now toilet paper is hidden in every cabin instead of a centralized location. 28.3k Share
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    PM_ME_DEEP QUESTIONS I'm working on a cruise ship currently. One time we had to turn around to take someone to a hospital, and then there was a fire in the laundry room, and it was also pretty rocky seas. Also people on cruise ships, and the bodies are kept in a special freezer. I mean, you gotta do something with the body if you're at sea. Edit: wow this blew up. 25.2k Share
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    too-tsunami. I worked on a cruise ship for three years! I've got a lot of these kinds of stories, but here's my favorite one: Our ship officers got a call from a ship of a completely different cruise line, off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico. They found one of our passengers floating in the ocean. He wasn't even near the shore at all, just floating in open water. He was alive & perfectly fine.
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    They reviewed the security footage, & in the middle of the night this guy was don Deck 5, & could be seen holding his phone, dancing to music by himself. He then climbed onto one of the lifeboats, & did a RUNNING JUMP into the ocean. He left his phone on top of the lifeboat. His body was so fluid from being dr that he wasn't injured when he hit the water. The cruise ship spotted him & rescued him. His family didn't know he was missing because he had booked a separate room.
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    This guy told the news that a rogue wave pushed him off the side of the ship. He was on Deck 5, so the wave would have been over 40 feet tall... Don't know what happened after that. The entire crew was talking about it for weeks before it hit the news, though.
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    Lacklusterbeverage. I was playing a production show (guitar) was standing on stage with a wireless unit alone to play Purple Rain, and then all of the sudden the house lights came on and the curtains closed. Everyone in the audience looked at me, and I ran off the stage. Turns out a sewage pipe burst backstage and there was everywhere. Show was cancelled and the passengers didn't find out why. ↑ 8.7k ↓ Share
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    IRefuseToPickAName. makes their Probably not going to get a lot of answers, I know at least C employees pay for internet. I was talking with some crew and they were asking about current events and politics because they're almost cut off because of how expensive the internet access is 6.3k Share ...
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    idontmindtherain78. I was a cruise ship worker for a few years and on a route between two cities there was a really bad storm. So a few minutes after the passengers got off, the storm got so rough that the ship was ripped off the docks and drifted out to sea. Because it takes quite a while to start up the engines it took some time until we got back to the harbor. Not really dangerous, but if it had happened while the passengers were deboarding it could have gone badly.
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    + [deleted] I went on a cruise once.......there was an infestation of lice and I got off at the first port and flew home. C fully reimbursed me. 2.5k 2.5K Share
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    DaniSeeh One time I was on a cruise, and a few cabins down a man and woman who were cheating on their wife and husband, respectively, got super dri and fell over the edge of their balcony. From really high up. It was at night too. The whole cruise ship stopped once it was reported and it took like an entire day to search for them. Apparently the man had his jeans or something because he had inflated them somehow and they were floating holding them. They reported that they were stung by multiple
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    DukeboxHiro. A new guy miscalculated the pool treatment and one of the Jacuzzis ended up with a pH less than 2 (it was discovered before the area opened and that one remained netted for the rest of the day while it was balanced). A wiper/painter stood on a small cupronickel black water pipe to reach higher on the bulkhead. Literal 'oh, moment, from the floor to his knees. If you're pushing 140 revs on the ship still won't break 15 knots, check the bulbous bow for whales. 1.1k and the Share
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    HairySquid68. My buddy worked in the theatre on a cruise ship and always had fun stories from travelling around. Cool thing, beers are less than a buck in the crew bar. Bad thing, you always have to be enough to operate a life boat and man your station during an emergency. Crew members getting left in countries because they were off getting drunk and chasing cute locals. Old people di and being put in a freezer on a low deck near one of their storage areas. Good times 868 Share
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    [deleted] A pipe burst and flooded the kitchens. It was a waste pipe so we had to throw everything out and get a sanitation company to meet us at our next port and go out and buy all new inventory. We gave out vouchers for food but if we had been further from port that would have been awful 394 Share
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    wanderinggal Fires. I worked on a cruise ship for 2.5 years and we had 3 major fires. They were all in crew areas and were controlled and extinguished by our awesome fire team. The passengers never knew what happened, only that their waiter had to leave in the middle of dinner service. People don't realize how much training the crew members go through to handle these situations. And they will never know that their waiter just helped save the whole godamn ship. 324 Share
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    SarcasticGamer. One of the waiters had to go to the backroom really bad but it was during the dinner rush so the supervisor told him to wait. He ended up running out of the restaurant and his pants on the way out and left a trail behind him. Also, not really an Oh- moment but the amount of workers who get pregnant is pretty crazy. So much goes on between the crew it's crazy.
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    Pixielix. Only one i have witnessed were two fires in the engine rooms. Scary thought.... Because of the nature of the ships normal workers are picked to be fire fighter trained. So your onboard fire fighters will be engineers or wait staff or galley men. They chose the big bulky ones who wont be blown over when the water comes out the hose. 138 Share

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