What has freaked you out on a cruise?

These are great - both the scary and the funny ones!

 

Ours isn't nearly as dramatic, but on our first cruise, when we were passing over the straits of Florida, the captain announced our water depth as being 4,000 some odd feet! What!! My husband's and my jaws dropped. We just felt so little on that ship given that perspective. I knew the ocean was deep, but I didn't realize it got that deep in the Gulf/Caribbean. We still laugh about that.

In January, we were on Adventure of the Seas headed to the ABC islands from San Juan. Somewhere in the middle, the captain announced that the water depth was almost 16,000 feet. It was pretty creepy knowing it was that far down!

Deb, was his name Captain Lars? We were on the Gem and we LOVED his updates! He was the best! We have no idea who our Cruise Director was, but we still display our photos with Captain Lars proudly. Hilarious. "Well folks, I am not going to lie to you about the weather... there IS weather." "Don't get off at this port with your wife, or you will end up quite poor."

It was definitely Captain Lars. He was such a character. We loved his daily updates.

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Only been on 2 cruises, both with RCCL.

1st cruise-Brilliance of the Seas-we had some rough seas in the Gulf of Mexico but nothing too crazy. My wife and I had secured a corner aft cabin. 1 night the boat went over a decent wave, decent enough that the bed dropped out from under us. I woke up to her screaming and started laughing...she didn't find it amusing.

2nd cruise-Liberty of the Seas- every time while walking down the hallways I let my wife go first. We found it shocking but funny at the same time. Every so far she would get bounced into a wall while walking. What we found funny was it wouldn't happen at the exact same time for me but rather the exact same spot.

3rd cruise-NCL Escape leaves April 29th and that can't get here fast enough! Can't wait to see what we find next

Feb 2014, DW and I were on Norwegian Breakaway when the 4 year old drowned and sadly passed. We were off the coast of (I think) North or South Carolina when it occurred. We were outside, walking around the Waterfront, when all hell broke loose. We could hear all kinds of screaming and commotion on the pool deck. A few minutes later, Dan (CD at the time) came on the PA and mentioned that an airlift would be taking place. The rest of the cruise had a somber mood, with some passengers blaming the cruise line, and others blaming the caregivers. We had news and media choppers buzzing the ship for the rest of the trip.

I was allowed on the Bridge of The Pearl coming oout of Miami once. While we were still in the tidal basin, a sailing sloop crossed just in front of the bow. there was a lot aof swearing going on in several languages- non probably repeatable or translatable. The Harbor Pilot was on the radio to the Coast Guard with the registration number of the craft.

Would have loved to have witnessed that.

I have a couple...

 

 

2.). In the middle of the night he went to pee (he was naked) and instead of going back to his bed, he turned and went out the door. There he was butt naked banging on the door.

This is why I stopped sleeping naked!

it was my first cruse it was 2001 June NY to Canada we were in the dinning room and one of the serving carts all of a sudden rolled a crossed the room and slammed to a stop as the ship Norwegian Sea made a sudden move or turn my wife and I just looked at each other but letter laughed about it. I was already trying to figure out where our muster station was.

The next I was home watching the news and saw a Norwegian ship was hit broad side by a rouge huge wave we would have been on that cruise but had canceled due to change of jobs.

But all is good next cruise no problems

It happened on my second cruise. We were sailing from BOS to BDA on the Dawn and during dinner the power went out. Smoke filled the dining room as the AC vents stopped working. The engines stopped so we were floating about in the middle of the Atlantic. No power to flush the toilets. It was eerily quite and this lasted about 2 hours until the power problem was fixed. My heart stopped when it happened.

Never been freaked out on a cruise ship. But if you all remember back in 2009 when the swine flu happened. My wife and I were booked on a trip to the Yucatan and 4 days before we were supposed to leave the swine flu was announced in Mexico. We didnt have trip insurance. Had never purchased it before that trip. We had to decide whether to go on the trip or stay home and lose all of that money. We decided that we would either get the darn flu in Mexico or get it when we got home. So we went on the trip. It was the weirdest trip of our lives. Their were maybe 15 people on the airplane going to Mexico. When we landed the airport was a madhouse with people trying to get out of there. We went to the all inclusive resort and had basically the entire place to ourselves. There were maybe 100 people there. It was one of the most amazing vacations of our lives. Once the week was over we got to the airport and their were still thousands of people trying to leave. There were doctors in full hazmat suits that asked us questions about how we felt and took our temperatures. I told them I was hungover as hell but felt fine. They all got a laugh out of it. Needless to say we ALWAYS buy trip insurance now.

I am a combo of just plain stupid, freaky, and bizarre...

1. Playing "most dramatic bingo death" on Carnival. Object was not to get your number called. They called my number, I pitched myself over the seats and whacked my head on the ground. The Ship on a Stick was not worth it, nor was the delay of game for the other players,

2. Racing up the coast to beat either Hurricane Sandy or Irene. Paying $7.95 a minute to call and tell my dad we were ok. It was worth it because he called NCL a few times and they said they were unable to locate our ship. Getting loaded into the giant elevator as they rushed us off the ship and getting stuck in the back corner with so many people sent me into my first and only panic attack. Driving through New York and seeing no one else on the road was pretty creepy too.

3. Eating in the steakhouse on Princess. My brother in law had spit a piece of steak into his napkin. He had no way to know that when he got up and then returned from the restroom, the waiter would come over to shake out his napkin like a parachute and put it on his lap. The steak was airborne and landed on the table next to us.Nothing says ambiance like flying bits of beef.

We were on a transatlantic once in a gale and took a "rogue wave" broadside. The ship listed sufficiently to cause all of the glassware in the stateroom to become aireborne and smash and break against the cabin wall. Glass everywhere. The poor cabin steward spent the night cleaning up.

We were also on a Transatlantic back in 2010 from Venice to New York on the NCL Gem, and a 40 foot wave hit the ship, glass broken everywhere, everything came out of our fridge in our stateroom, there were broken noses, wrists, dinnerware, and I myself was thrown across the room on the 14th floor outside the elevator and got hurt. My shoulder was in a sling for about 4 months and i had to do PT to be able to bring it back to normal...

it was scary but i still enjoy transatlantics :D:D:cool:

We were on the Dawn a few weeks back and I think on the 4th or 5th morning we hear an emergency siren over the intercom with an announcement "BRAVO TEAM to CABIN 8550" woke me up with a start and I couldn't get back to bed. Went exploring later that morning and found out that something had caught on fire in that cabin and you could just smell burnt plastic on the entire 8th deck.

I have two:

 

1. In 2008 I was on the NCL Pearl. I stepped out of the shower and into cabin only see that very ship on the news because a passage was missing. To this day they are not sure if the passenger jumped, accidentally fell off or was pushed. Her body was never found.

 

2. In 2012 I was on the Island Princess. I was walking the deck and the Captain announced there was a small boat at sea and was in distressed. Maritime laws according to the captain required him to rescue the 5 passengers on board. So he slowed the ship turned it around and back we went. After what I assume was making sure it was safe to get them on board we turn back around and was off again. The 5 passengers were Jamaicans and so they say were stranded for 3 weeks when their small engine gave out.

that one heck of a way to get a free cruise. dont try this at home

Last year while sailing the Caribbean I was hit on by a drunk women in the casino. I agreed to go for food with her late at night at o'sheehans but had no interest in her and thought I had made it clear. At the table she got super depressed and crying as I wouldn't take her back to my stateroom. She assumed I thought she was ugly and wondering why this always happens to her.

 

She said by the end of the cruise I'd have sex with her. So anyway my whole cruise I had to avoid this drunk lady who was double my age.

 

I saw her a few times in the casino and she made me look like I was in AA she drank so much.

 

One time she asked to borrow 100.00, so basically I paid someone 100.00 not to have sex.

 

That was my weirdest story on a ship hahaha.

 

 

 

 

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how old are you? curious if 25/50 or 40/80

why in the world did you give her 100 (and get no sex to boot!)

and was she as bad as she thought she was? doubtful!

I don't know if it's true or not but it kind of freaked it out when I heard it. A couple of years ago we were told in one of the dining rooms that if we noticed all of a sudden that ice cream was being pushed - served everywhere. It probably meant a dead body was in the freezer. Especially on an older ship.

I don't know if it's true or not but it kind of freaked it out when I heard it. A couple of years ago we were told in one of the dining rooms that if we noticed all of a sudden that ice cream was being pushed - served everywhere. It probably meant a dead body was in the freezer. Especially on an older ship.

It might not be the same on all ships, but most have a "mini morgue" in the medical center. The Spirit is older and does have a mini morgue. My thoughts are that someone was enjoying passing around a jaw dropping rumour. If I had heard that one, I would have avoided the ice cream too.

My husband and I were on the Carnival Dream on the last night returning to port on the last night of the cruise. We were in a cove balcony and at 02:30 AM we heard the couple in the stateroom next to us start fighting very loudly. The man was screaming at his girlfriend about "hooking up with some guy". We thought that it would be fine because it was just screaming but all the sudden we heard some things crashing and then heard something from the balcony hit the side of the ship and then there was no more screaming. We thought for sure that the man had thrown the woman off the ship. Long story short. Security came to the room and they couldn't find the woman right away. The man attempted to fight with some very large Thai men (these guys were super buff) and when he punched the one security guy the forced him to the ground. They ended up finding the woman and then the staff apologized for keeping us up as they needed our information for authorities in Fort Lauderdale. As soon as we docked in Fort Lauderdale the local authorities took the woman off the ship. Our room steward told us that he had punched his girlfriend and she ran out of the room and he then pulled the TV from the wall smashed the room and threw a deck chair over the railing. That was what hit the side of the hull.

i don't know if it's true or not but it kind of freaked it out when i heard it. A couple of years ago we were told in one of the dining rooms that if we noticed all of a sudden that ice cream was being pushed - served everywhere. It probably meant a dead body was in the freezer. Especially on an older ship.

lol

With admittedly not reading all the posts in this thread.

Pax have freaked me out the most.

I question how they get aboard in the first place.

Shouldn't there be a questionnaire? Or at least a screening?

Screw the health questionnaire.

It should also screen for mental illness IMO.

Damn pax. ... Always in the way and whatnot.

That would be outside being caught chasing hurricane Sandy on the DCL Fantasy.

That was an experience. Force 12, after midnight for 4 -5 hours.

I can attest to that. We did the real sea trials that night.

That ship is built well and handles mega seas well.

She doesn't like monster rogues though.

Amazing more pax and crew weren't hurt.

Fair winds and sane sails to all.

:)

Unfortunately on a few cruises the officer of the watch came on the P a to ask for blood ...that was freaky ..On Emerald Princess it was just before dinner .....it got very quiet in the hallways of the entertainment deck

The freakiest was on a Transat on Reflection ..same thing officer of the wAtch came on requesting AB blood in the middle of the night ....not sure ifthey got it but I know we turned back towards Madeira for a rescue ...very eerie to be awakened like that and next morning hear the helicopters hovering above .We figured the injured party got whisked away ..thank God we were not far from Madeira

On GetawAy same thing request for B blood ......I mentioned it to my son.s adult friend ...gambling buddy ...he volunteered to give and actually saved that womans life ...direct transfusion .He was very moved and emotional about it .

Getting sick on board is very scary

I got really sick on a cruise ship in 2015 and ended up spending 2 1/2 days in the ship hospital. That totally freaked me out. The other part that freaked me out was the hospital bill for two days in a ship hospital. My medical insurance paid for half of it but it was still a big chunk.

When I got home I ended up spending almost a month in the hospital due to the medical issue that cropped up on the ship. I'm super thankful to be here and will head out for my first cruise since that time in August. I'm a little nervous.

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We just got off of the Escape yesterday. When we were in Nassau our ship was right next to a Carnival ship. As we were slowly getting to the dock, a wild and crazy naked woman on the Carnival was in here cabin putting on a full nude show for all to see.

that one heck of a way to get a free cruise. dont try this at home

 

 

 

how old are you? curious if 25/50 or 40/80

 

why in the world did you give her 100 (and get no sex to boot!)

 

and was she as bad as she thought she was? doubtful!

-I'm 35

-The 100.00 was supposed to be a one day loan. I assume she wouldn't remember anyway she was so blotto.

-Was she so bad ? I couldn't get past the weeping and the drunkenness. Best to keep her away from my cabin. Hahaha

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We just got off of the Escape yesterday. When we were in Nassau our ship was right next to a Carnival ship. As we were slowly getting to the dock, a wild and crazy naked woman on the Carnival was in here cabin putting on a full nude show for all to see.

Computer monitor, meet spit.

The Escape's smokestacks were spitting out sparks and flaming debris when at Spice H20 on at night, and I felt it was getting awfully close to landing on the Spice H20 aft deck with the way the winds were.

I tried to ask the Captain about this during the Captains technical session, but they only took a handful of questions from the audience, then shut the session down.

The Escape's smokestacks were spitting out sparks and flaming debris when at Spice H20 on at night, and I felt it was getting awfully close to landing on the Spice H20 aft deck with the way the winds were.

 

I tried to ask the Captain about this during the Captains technical session, but they only took a handful of questions from the audience, then shut the session down.

This is a nightly occurrence, where the engineers clean the soot off the turbocharger blades of the running engines by injecting ground walnut shells into the exhaust stream. The shells act like soft "sand blasting" to remove the soot, but the temperatures are high enough that the soot flakes and nut shell particles become embers. They will also clean the steam generating tubes in the boilers nightly, by blowing steam through them to remove soot, also creating embers.

These processes are done in conjunction with the bridge officers, who will advise the wind direction and change course as needed to keep the soot from blowing onto the ship. Even though it looks pretty scary, the embers themselves are so thin that when removed from the heat source of the hot exhaust gas, they cannot sustain combustion and will cool off and stop glowing.