The Secret Lives Of Cruise Ship Workers

Emergencies Can Be Pretty Darn Gross

Everyone has heard of the urban legend of a cruise ship serving some bad shrimp and the entire ship getting food poisoning so severe it almost couldn’t hold all the vomit. This is a wildly rare event but it can happen. In fact, it has happened.

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In 2013, a Carnival cruise ship lost power after a fire in the engine room. Passengers were stranded in the Gulf of Mexico long enough for the sewage to get backed up. Raw sewage began bubbling up all over the boat, and it smelled so bad that people created a tent city away from toxic-smelling areas. This has got to be one of the worst and most talked about cruise ship instances, which definitely had more than a few vacationers questioning their trips planned ahead.