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If you imagine going to sunset aboard a giant ocean lining, we have bad news for you. Cruises are not always the dream they seem to be. In fact, many ships hide horrible secrets. (Tip: Do not touch the dishes, nor silverware, nor anything in the buffet, in fact.) Bathrooms of revolting cabin with integrated diseases that propagate like a wild fire, here is the mostterrible true stories From the high seas. After all, you never know what is hiding below the bridge.

Well, not in fact a ton. But the passengers are gaining between5 and 10 pounds On a week of a week cruise, according to polls. Blame buffets or these delicious mixed cocktails. Or maybe it's all the time you spend in the pool or playing slot machines in the casino.

Do not let the disinfectants of the hand go wrong. According toCenters for Disaster Control and PreventionCruise lines failed at the highest speed sanitation inspections since the DCD launched their guidelines in 1990. In fact, 15 vessels failed in 2017, compared to the average failure rate of two to four per year. This includedships of Carnival, Norwegian and Oceania.Carnival Traveled the test in 2019, citing problems such as brunette showerwater (EW!), flies around buffets and debris in the pools.

Of all thestains on a cruise ship Being the most suspicious, it's the buffet. With thousands of people on board, it's a lot of mouth to feed three times a day, which means a massive silverware. Although vessels have a dishwasher of industrial size, let us be real, not all plates and spoon will be clean. Fantasy carnival, for example,Failure of a sanitation report Due to "poorly cleaned service stations" as well as many soiled containers, trays, cups, bowls, food slicers and silverware. "

Of course, it's hard to keep fresh food when you are in the middle of the ocean. But that does not mean that cruises should serve foods that may cause disease. Unfortunately, it always happens. Take Silversea cruises, which hasPublic health inspections in the United States. In a 2019 report of a silver spirit vessel, the inspectors discovered blocked dishwashers with dietary debris, a lack of soap in hand stations and fish are not kept from Fruits, meat and cheese. And it's not even the worst. In 2013,Cnn Reported that cooking workers aboard the shadow of money were caught more than 15 perishable food and dirty utensil trolleys in crew cabins to avoid health inspections. Yikes!

This is the worst nightmare of a cruiser: an unbearable ardor cabinet of your cabin bathroom, then water (and who knows what else!) Floods under the door. The overflowing toilets can look like a rare event, but you would be wrong. This happens all the time. In reality,A Cruise Review wrote, "during the Cruise [Royal Caribbean], I saw that there were toiletries in the bathrooms through the ship. The guest service has only offered a small credit from Token for the disgusting experience of having the outbreak of the cabin toilets almost daily on the floor of the bathroom and wait for the maintenance to repair it, then the cabin service to clean up the ground. "

The problem, apparently, is that the cruise boats (and most ordinary toilets, too) are not equipped to rinse anything except waste or toilet paper because they use Vacuflush systems. Otherwise, you will spoil the system for all your floor until the plumber sets the system.

No kidding. The average vessel creates between140,000 to 210,000 gallons of weekly sewers, In addition to one million gallons of weekly worn water showers, sinks and laundry. (This is a total of more than1 billion tons of wastewater One year!) And where do you think all this gunk goes? Well, it is dropped directly into the sea. Do not panic however. All wastewater is crossed by a treatment system before discharging, according to theInternational Cruise Line Association. And someCruise Reuse all waste by recycling it or converting it into energy.

It's not science fiction, although it may seem like that. Since 2000, there have been approximately 200 declarations of disappearances of cruise ships (a number of people in 2012). According toRoss Klein, author ofBlues cruise ship, 94 of the 200 disappearances occurred on Carnival vessels. The average age of missing passengers was 44 years old and went to the sea of ​​the last night of the cruise.

It is ridiculously easy to spread germs on board. Recently,More than 300 passengers have been vomiting In all a Caribbean princess vessel, causing the cruise to cut the short route and return to Port Everglades, Florida. And at the end of November,More than 100 passengers of a Norwegian joy vessel were treated due to a stomach-related disease. According toCenters for Disaster Control and PreventionNorovirus is very contagious - and since it can be transmitted by contact, it is very easy for a person to broadcast it around an entire ship.

Do not open this unmarked door, otherwise you can involuntarily enter the cruising morgue. Nope, it's not on the official tour, but most of the big ships have one. Almost100 people died on cruise ships Arriving at Fort Lauderdale between 2014 and 2017, according to the Broward County Medical Examiner's office - and it's just a fraction of allDeaths reported by the cruise. (Criticism Approximately three deaths per week.) Integrated morgues can generally store up to three bodies until the vessel reaches an appropriate port. So, for example, if you navigate the Caribbean when a passenger dies, this person is kept in the morgue until the vessel returns to the United States.

Maybe it's next to the morgue? The prison, otherwise known as "The Brigre", is a room where the undisciplinary passengers can be locked before they are delivered to the port authorities. Inside the brick, there are usually steel doors reminiscent of penitentiary cells and passengers that are held out there can be handcuffed.

It happens rarely, but it happened recently. In March 2019, theViking Sky sent a Mayday alert after it was blocked off Norway due to engine problems. The passengers shared videos of furniture sliding in common areas, falling people and other patients. More than 890 people, including passengers and crew, had to be saved and went directly to the hospital.

In 2013,The Carnival Triumph engine caught fireand the air conditioning system turns off with the sewer system. There were 4,200 passengers floating in the Gulf of Mexico with their raw wastewater in the hallways. It did the news, but it was not theonce a ship caught fire. Although there is a significant lack of cruising fire data, most cruises record their vessels abroad and are not obliged to report these statistics in the United States - it seems that fires are not Rare.Ross Klein, Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada and founder ofJunkie cruise, says there were 79 fires on vessels between 1990 and 2011. But from 2006, the number of ships fires doubled three or four per year to about seven or eight per year.

This is not a movie or drill.The Piracy Declaration Center of the International Maritime Bureau Reported in 2009 that Somali pirates attacked 214 ships and diverted 47 vessels (although none of them were cruises). But cruise ships were in the line of fire. In 2017,Passengers of the Sea Princess Starting at Sydney, Australia, had to keep their lights and extinguish music for 10 nights to avoid pirate threats.

The Titanic was not the first nor the last shower. Icebergs, rocks and dysfunctions of ships have all caused vessels to go down these days, it does not cause many passenger deaths through monitoring technologies and rescue vessels. From 1980 to 2012, about16 casting vesselsAnd most of them were in Antarctica or other difficult seas. A major, however, was in 2012 whenCosta Concordia struck a rock Near Isola del Giglio, Italy and Chavia, killing 32 passengers.

Cruise lines may have replaced plastic straws (# Savetheturles), but they are still far from good to the environment. YourThe triple carbon footprint when you are on a cruiseand the ship itself generates about 15 gallons of hazardous waste daily, according to the environmental group,Friends of the Earth. Every year,100 million gallons of petroleum products Drain in the water of ships. In addition, there are fumes generated with books carrying the size of small towns. The Sapphire Princess generates the same amount ofSulfur dioxide as 13.1 million cars generate in one day, according to the EPA.

They live on the ship up to 10 months a year, sharing tiny cabins and eat ugly foods (their meals are very different from guest food). But most people working on cruises are paid every hour, winning less than $ 2,000 a month, according toInternal business community. Their life costs are weak because they do not buy food or rent a rent, but they tend to work more hours than a typical worker, these salaries often equivalent at 5 or 10 dollars per hour.

You can buy an all-new-channel package on most cruise lines for unlimited drinks, and they start at about $ 8 per adult per day for the SODA package at $ 55 per person per day per day For the standard alcohol set, according toCriticism. But there is usually a maximum glass even on the unlimited packages of 15 daily drinks and if you do not get the drinking package, you can expect a glass markup of about two to three times what you would pay in a Alcohol store on Earth.