Scariest Moment aboard a Cruise

[Twaincruisers]

We've had several adventures like those already mentioned with helicopters (the first from the bow of a very old ship with no landing pad) as well as itinerary changes to either drop off people in a nearby port or to meet helicopters. Survived one trip on a HAL ship that was struck by noro-virus; if you got the virus you were put off the ship at the next port. We've also had to stop dead in the water to allow ship's crew to make a repair to a repair! And we have sailed in circles outside the harbor at St Thomas as they tried to get the thrusters working properly. Forty-ft seas on the way back from Tortola made for an interesting day/night. The scariest was walking with my wife in Nassau on a one-way street out of town when she tripped and fell flat on her face. A taxi immediately stopped but she said she was OK. After the taxi left she realized she was severely injured; she had to hobble all the way back to the ship because we never saw another cab.

[Partyof7]

We were on our first cruise. Our first port was Progresso. We, a party of 7, decided to take the city tour. After driving about an hour we were dropped off to shop for a short time. Well when we came out of the last shop we see the bus driving off:eek: !! My husband, myself, DD and DS went running to try and chase the bus down. As panic started to set in we start walking back to where MIL, Brother and his DD are waiting. 5 minutes later the "real" bus pulls up. The one we thought we missed was just public transportation. You can only imagine the fear we had when we were walking back wondering how the heck we were going to get back to the ship.

 

2nd time to Progresso we just hung out on the beach:D !!

[grammibonnie]

We were trying to get back into San-Juan after our 7 days in the southern Caribbean ... At 5:00am the Captin came on to tell us all that a bomb threat had been called in for our ship . They could not even let us into the port so their we were still at sea with the anchor down.. The funny thing is I could not even get a grape from one of the islands passes security and Carnival thinks that some one could get a bomb on there ha ha ... Every thing was fine after a short delay we all were sent packing and hopping that it will never happen again to any of us .... Be safe and God Bless The USA ....:cool:

[lubyshell]

Sorry mine is pretty lame, scariest moment was on the last day of our cruise on the Liberty, the lady in front of me decides to wipe the cream cheese off the serving spoon onto her plate with her fingers.. My scale thanks her !!:D

[Perrys100]

I was going to check out the deck cam in key west...there was a new report of a plane accident in New York...just then another plane slammed into the world trader center....pretty much ...the least fun....cruise I have ever been on. (and I don't blame carnival)

[scotts82705]

Carnival Fantasy in Hurricane Jeanne sept 2005. It was 15 foot seas. We could even fell the water on the lido deck from the waves. It was bad. Out of 9 cruises that is the only one I got sick on. Plus I feel on the Lido cause of the motion. Carnival did a wonderful job keeping us safe. We did get a free extra day and onboard credit. Then we had to take a bus from Pt. Everglades to Pt. Canveral. The hurricane dameges was so bad on the hwy took all of 6+ hours to get there. HORRIBLE RIDE!!!

[sugarsparkles]

I was on the NCL Spirit on Saturday when it had the bomb threat... I hope that never gets topped!!

 

Rebekah

[scotts82705]

OH MY GOD. I know that the Sensation had one. BUt they said it may have been a late person.

[Marleycruiser]

Scariest moment ever on a cruise was aboard the Carnival Triumph last year on March 23, 2006. Myself along with my best friend Vinny had been enjoying ourselves in the ships club when we both decided we needed to use the restroom. As we were waiting for the rest room, a drunken Carnival employee still with his uniform, approached us and was obviously severly intoxicated. He had asked both of us in a slurring demeanor if we had heard the "big news." Apparently there was a cruise ship that was on fire and we may have to possibly assist on a rescue. He stated that there was at least one death and possibly many more severly injured but we both disregarded his comments as we can both tell he was extrememly drunk. As the night concluded, myself along with Vinny, his gf, my gf, and myself decided to go up on deck. We were on our way to Jamaica and were in the Gulf of Mexico in between Grand Cayman and Jamaica but we noticed that we were nearly stopped in the middle of the ocean. We then started to become weary and went back to our rooms only to find that all satellite television had been conveniently "down." The next morning we had discovered, through internet and phone calls from shipmates to family members that the Star Princess, of Princess Cruise Lines, had caught fire and it had unfortunately claimed a life. Rest in Peace. Definately the scariest moment I have had on a cruise ship

[BrettH]

When I was on the Jubilee the worst was after the last port (Cabo San Lucas) and we were heading back to LA. You'd look out the window for a sec and see nothing but blue sky and the next second nothing but water. The entire trip back to LA was like that. At dinner water was splashing out of the water glasses, etc.

 

That night something (someone later said it was a fishing boat of some sort) got in our path that resulted in the ship having to make a quick turn. I had an outside room on the main floor. My bed was against the outside wall. I woke up to me and my bed sliding into the middle of the room. At this point I was awake so I wandered around the ship for awhile. A lot of areas on the ship were a mess from glasses and dishes falling off tables and bars. They did a good job cleaning up everything though. By the next morning you wouldn't have been able to tell that food, drink and glass ended up all over the place.

[spleenstomper]

This was such an interesting read last night that I decided to resurrect it from the bowels of the archives.

 

Please keep on adding.... ;)

[Lyncoya]

Trying to use the "sail and sign card" after the cruise and it is not accepted.

 

 

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOO FUNNY!!!! :D

[CruizinMom2c]

actually the scariest thing ,was what happend to my husband on our feb cruise.

 

 

He had started getting a sore throat and coughing...so he went down to the infirmary and got some medicine (penecillan). Went to bed...everything was fine. Then in the morning he got up and ate eggs and pancakes for breakfast. After breakfast we both walked up to the upper deck while my MIL was with our baby.

 

and as soon as we hit the upper deck he starts gasping and turing bright red...he said he had trouble breathing...so my heart stopped and I had to help him back down the stairs and into a chair as I went and got someone, one of the officers escorted us down to the infirmary and my husband was given benedryl shots and had to stay down there for the rest of the day! It was scary because he has taken penecillian all his life and never had a reaction to it...so we were not sure what cause the allergic reaction...but it was scary! thank god my mil was with us, so she could stay with our son while I went to the infirmary with him

[bonnys]

Saying "I do" aboard our last cruise....just kidding, Honey!

 

 

OMG!!!ROFLMAO! DH and I were married on the Glory and when I read that I spit my lunch out from laughing so hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[crusinpsychRN]

When I was giving my wife a back rub, then relized it was not my wife....

 

I wish I had a Shamwow for that one!

[MikeNKim]

Wow some of these are really scary mostly the beer and S&S ones:p

 

I have 2 stories to share.

 

On our first cruise we where on Disney and my 2 kids where suppose to be back in the room when the Stack closed. I believe that was midnight, they were 13 and 16. I know it was a bit late but they where with a big group of kids. Well 12:30 rolls around we can't get them on the walkie talkies, DH and I start looking all over the ship for them, I went to the pursers desk, they would not help at all. I was horrified, so we kept looking ended up finding them in one of the bars (can't remember the name) but it wasn't being used as a bar that night, them and another brother sister team where playing a board game. They "said" that they changed their watches (it was the week that daylight savings changed) and messed it up. Needless to say if they weren't IN the Stack they where with us with and with a much earlier curfew.

 

2nd, DH, DFIL and DS went to Xunich....(sp) the ruins in Belize. They took a little raft across with the ship tour and there was solders hiding in the jungle with machine guns, DD, DMIL and I stayed on the ship and waitinf for them to come back, they where over a hour late coming back from the excursion, thank goodness it was a Carnival Excursion.

[gill_boo]

On my first cruise on the Tahitian Princess, we were in Rarotonga for a day. It was overcast, but hadn't really done anything weather wise until about 2pm, then it started raining. So at 330pm we are standing in line to tender back in, there is probably 150 people behind us. The seas had really picked up, but we manged to get on our tender. On the ride to the boat there were 20-30 foot seas, our tender kept stalling from all the pitching. So we finally make it to the cruise ship and the tender was rising and falling so bad in one second the door to the tender would be completely under the platform to the next second where it would be 15 feet over it. There were 4 crew members on the platform and 2 on the tender and they were literally launching us off the tender where the 4 crew members would catch you. I remember my ex and I were fine but some of the older folks ended up getting injured, including one woman who I was convinced broke her hip, she had the classic signs and was in agony. I would have hated to have had to dealt with that so far from civilization, plus there was no getting her back onto the island anyways. We were the last tender to get onboard, they waited a few hours before bringing on the rest of the people who had to wait at a pier with no ammenities.

[VOLLEYBALLDUDE2000]

I was on the NCL Spirit on Saturday when it had the bomb threat... I hope that never gets topped!!

 

Rebekah

 

We were supposed to board the Celebration in Jacksonville (August 2007 11.00 am), when dogs sniffed something in the checked luggage.

Everyone was evacuated from the terminal to the nearby parking lot, where we were standing in the searing heat for 4 hours before they brought in city buses so we could cool down. They brought in the bomb squat and after 8 hours and no food (except some granola bars and water that the red cross brought in) they finally let us board.

The cause: Some dumb... put his heart medication (glycerin) in his checked luggage.

[lovebug33]

This happened on a land vacation, but it is the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. DH and I were tubing down the Provo River. Well, the water was way too swift and above our ability to navigate with our hands. I got separated from Dh and he tried grabbing a tree to stay still so I could catch up with him. Well, all of a sudden, I can't see him, but I can hear DH screaming, "Help! Help!" in the most terrified voice I have ever heard. I still couldn't see him and at this point was being swept in the opposite direction from him. I jump out of my tube and start running toward him, but I keep falling and he stopped screaming. Just stopped. I thought he was dead. All I could think about was the fact that I could be pg (I wasn't) and my baby was going to grow up fatherless. Then, he started screaming again and I could see him. He had got caught up in the tree and was being dragged under. He lost his raft, hat, and glasses, and we spent five hours sitting on a rock in the blazing sun until the tour company came and looked for us and took us to safety. Needless to say, water tubing will never happen in our lifetimes again!

[okgirl]

Grand Caymen Islands - Winds and rain were such all tours were cancelled. However they did allow us to go ashore on the tenders. The down pour was such we only shopped for short time and then decided to head back to the ship. The lines at the tender were very long and seemed so slow. We found out why when we got on a tender. We reached the ship and the swells were such that it took 3 attempts to dock to the ship. Several crew members stood on the deck and tender and one by one physically shoved passengers onto the cruise ship. The tender kept banging hard against the ship. Very nerve racking to say the least. I would never tender again in such conditions.

 

I've had that experience in Grand Cayman too.....Only for us we had earlier in the week had an elderly lady airlifted off the ship the 1st morning out from NOLA due to a bad fall and broken leg in the shower the previous evening...........We we're all very concerned for her and felt bad that both the injured woman and her daughter had to leave the cruise and leave the rest of the family behind.........

Well you can imagine my surprise when that woman (now with a full hip to ankle cast and her wheel chair) plus the daughter we're on the Tender in GC........:eek: And then to make matters worse it was one of those really rough sea days where all tenders to shore were cancelled and they were just trying to get people back on board.......Scariest thing I've ever done......the ship and tender were both pitching in opposite directions and like Mike said the guys on the ship were just grabbing people and yanking them on to the ship.....If they had dropped someone in the water they would have been crushed..........but the 1st one they had to deal with with the lady and the wheel chair.......it took over 15 minutes just for them to get her on board...........I still can't believe carnival even allowed it.......

To this day, sister doesn't tender, not ever!!!!!!!!

[Pegs222]

The crew on the ship waited on us hand and foot. The food was incredible and the wait staff could not have been more professional. Every time we left our Stateroom and came back it was cleaned. Every night our bed was turned down and that chocolate mint on our pillow. And then this one day came and threw us off the ship. Oh they did say good-bye but that was it. They dragged us off the ship and the entire time we were screaming "we do not want to go". They said, give it up, we have someone else that we want to wait on hand and foot.

 

Who does that? Very scary

 

Hey Toni ;)

[Magic City Cruiser]

My first moment was last year. I became preoccupied with my "travel docs". ( I know, I know I need a passport, but that's another thread). For months before the cruise, I would dream of arriving at port missing a travel doc and I wouldn't be able to board the ship. I checked the damn things daily to ease my mind. We drove to New Orleans, me checking every hour on the hour. By this time, they are in my travel bag. We got out of the car, check. We got in line to board, check. We get to the desk to complete our S&S information. I can't find my drivers license. I was almost in tears I was so upset! Of course, I had stuck it somewhere "I wouldn't lose it" and found it after a few minutes but I thought I was going to have to be carried out in an ambulance I was so upset!

The second moment was like some of the other "Mama's" on this thread. I had recently lost my father in an accident, I had spent the last 9 years chaperoning teens and pre-teens on band trips and was the mother of two teens. Now, I was on a "Girl's Cruise" and the youngest in our group was 33! Well, "Mama" always turns in early with a good book and our youngster said, yeah, she'd be in about 30 minutes, she just wanted to sit on the Lido for awhile. It was about 11:00. Me and my roomie went to bed and her roomie to their room. And, guess who knocks on Mama's door at 4:00 am....the youngster's roomie. Laura hadn't "come home" that night. I immediately went into FULL MAMA MODE. Not upset or panicking but got everybody up and out in full search mode. Long story short, we found her and her new friends on the AFT deck having a big ole time. My two cohorts were excited to have found "a party" but one look at me and Laura knew I wasn't happy. I couldn't help it, the fear and then relief had just drained me and it took awhile to "let it go". We later agreed that we would stay with "a buddy" or at the very least, let someone know if our plans had changed.

Donna

[bonnys]

My story is not quite what some of the others are but here goes. DH and I were on the stingray tour in GC. Had fun on the way there and with the rays. We get on the tour boat to head back to shore and it gets dark and stormy. DH and I look off to the side and see a funnel forming about 20 yards away. This long skinny funnel- stretching from the water to the clouds and sucking up water- was moving toward us! The boat was open air and had no protection anywhere. The boat got us back safely but I will never forget that.

[CrazieNCruisingGypsy2]

Trying to use the "sail and sign card" after the cruise and it is not accepted.

 

I really did that! My CC is gold and so is my S&S!

[Pegs222]

I really did that! My CC is gold and so is my S&S!

 

 

Please tell me it worked :D