10 Cruise Ship Workers Share Disasters That The Passengers Never Found out About

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Jun 25, 2018 11:00 AM EDT

It's harder to keep a secret when you're trapped on a boat with customers for 2 weeks.

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    Text - [ DukeboxHiro 559 points 6 hours ago 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, shit' moment, from the floor to his knees. If you're pushing 140 revs on the shaft and the ship still won't break 15 knots, check th
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    Text - [ EIGofre [el 400 points 6 hours ago Somebody shot at the navigation bridge of the ship from the shore on my last ship, the bullet bounced off and hit my colleague on the hand (no real damage but it scares the hell out of her, ended up going home for a few weeks). While we waited for the local police to come on and investigate and take statements, guests were told we were delaying the departure to take on fresh water. I'm still shocked that never leaked out
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    Text - -] Mr_Happy_80o 740 points 6 hours ago All of the computer systems run on Windows 7, including all of the automation in the machinery space, security system, fire detection system etc.. When Windows updates it will restart the computers, as it does with a normal desktop, unfortunately it can also take out every computer at the same time and we're flying blind until finishes. People may be more worried to hear that there is a hole in the hull yet they're actually fairly common occurances i
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    Text - [- ManInKilt 3607 points 6 hours ago Well, all the passengers found out, but on a QM2 transatlantic crossing one of the kitchen staff got drunk one night and hurled himself overboard in the North Atlantic. The ship basically found out the next morning when the first mate kept calling on the ship wide intercom for him to go to his post. That afternoon, the captain announced what happened and that the ship was turning around to, with the help of 3 nearby merchant ships, try to search for th
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    Text - [-] myjobisawesome 5621 points 6 hours ago 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
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    Text - - Pilebsa 11.5k points 6 hours ago I worked on a cruise ship, and unbeknowst to the passengers and most of the crew, the ship was on its latt cruise. The company was going bankrupt and when the ship landed, that was it. Everybody was out of a job, and a lot of the immigrant workers were stranded in a foreign port.
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    Text - [-] PM_ME_DEEP_QUESTIONS 18.4k points 8 hours ago* 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 die 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
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    Text - [-] too-tsunami 10.1k points 5 hours ago* 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. They reviewed the security footage, & in the middle of the night this g
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    Text - [ Lacklusterbeverage 4851 points 7 hours ago 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 shit everywhere. Show was cancelled and the passengers didn't find out why.
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    Text - [-]the_wanderer 668 points 6 hours ago* Someone died. My dad has been working on cruise ships for 30+ years and on one specific cruise we were on in 2008 a man who used to be a sailor all his life took his life. He wanted to die at sea, stopped taking his meds, had a small heart attack in the cafeteria but was okay then that night he spend the whole night dancing with his family who he brought on a cruise and he died the next morning. Had to be kept in the freezers until the next stop in
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