To wonder how the fluffing hell you can 'fall off' a cruise ship?!

[katiefromtheblock]

I mean HOW? Just HOW?

I am an average height (5 ft 4ish) and the rail was up to my chest when me and DH went on a cruise ship 3 years ago. It was like this on the attached pic.

It's also standard that a lot of emergencies will be dealt with with out a passenger ever knowing. Lots of engine room fires are put out etc without even all crew knowing - alarm isn't generally raised in passenger spaces until absolutely necessary.

I wish it would be protocol to say nowt. One very enthusiastic captain on a RC ship came on over the tannoy to tell us all that there had been a small fire in a laundry room (RC ships don't offer self-serve laundry so it will have had to have been a crew area) but it was all okay. At about 5.30 am. WTAF. I couldn't get back to sleep after that and it was a sea day. Arrgggh!

@leftrightcentre that Captain sounds like a knobhead. No call for waking you all up if it was over and dealt with 🤔

There is no way you can just fall off
I once burned myself with soup while in a revolving door; I'm pretty sure I could fall off a ship

He was so bouncy, MrsBloom. He had a lovely Scandi accent but man, he was peppy! We also had a Canadian cruise director whose voice could have doubled for the ship's horn on this last vessel. Dear god, he was loud.

We have seen several families thrown off for fighting, one over a sunbed. A wedding party were thrown off as the bride shagged the best man and the groom caught them so they were fighting etc. A few people were removed for drunk and disorderly. They are pretty strict.

Good on the line for being strict! But that was a lively cruise!

Sorry, MrBloom.

Believe me, ground, you've had to be the height of Slenderman and have legs made out of rubber to make it over one of those railings by accident. I do know of two people who managed to lock themselves out of their stateroom whilst they were on the balcony. Still have no idea how they managed that but I had gone down to my sister's stateroom to fetch her more sangria (as you do) and heard commotion next door but just thought the people were noisy. A while later, my BIL went down there to have a kip on their balcony and when he went out the people were calling for help, as they were unable to open the door to their stateroom and were stuck on the balcony.

We have seen several families thrown off for fighting, one over a sunbed.
You need a better class of cruise ship. I've not seen anything like this in over 20 years cruising!

Yeah, worst I've seen is that bloke arguing with staff on the Navigator. Never saw him again! I've been on several Carnival cruises, which have a rep for being party cruises, but never seen the likes of open fighting.

I used to know someone who worked on cruise ships and the reason he quit was that he was so fed up with having to turf passengers out of out of bounds areas, with them arguing the toss because "they had paid so could go where they wanted". My first reaction when I heard the story was that maybe she was somewhere unauthorised where there's no railing because it's not a passenger access area (for example near the life boats).

Lyndor there are morgues on cruise ships? Wow! Please start an AMA thread.

I'm surprised she floated so well to be honest. With that amount of filler in her face she should have sunk like a stone. Looks like a budding Jocelyn Wildenstein.

We have seen several families thrown off for fighting, one over a sunbed

Ah yes, the dreaded sunbed wars I've also never seen any actual fights, but one family were chucked off when their teenager was found with drugs - bad enough if he'd used them in the stateroom, but the idiot was on deck. So the whole family lost the holiday they'd paid for (and would also have to find their own way home)

I wouldn't have wanted to be him when his parents got him home ...

Lyndor there are morgues on cruise ships? Wow! Please start an AMA thread.

Sure there would have to be. You could be a day or two away from a port. Cruises are also popular among older people. A friend of my sister's had his pacemaker malfunction on a ship. Luckily they were near a port, but it was Nassau. He had to disembark, get treatment and of course, fly back only when he was fit to fly. Always have good travel insurance when cruising!

there are morgues on cruise ships? Wow!

There's an old saying which is supposed to describe the bulk of the passenger list: the newly wed, the over fed and the nearly dead

When you consider the age demographic on cruises - and some lines are more popular with seniors than others - it would be surprising if there wasn't the occasional sad death

If you read the T&C you approve before you check in online, it actually makes for quite entertaining reading because it's all outlined, what's prohibited. I'd always check in my folks as they were quite aged and call out to my father, 'Dad, you can't bring your hunting rifles, Mum, sorry, but your steam iron has to stay here. And you can't bring hot plates, or pyrotechnics.' I can only imagine what gets confiscated.

'She'll probably turn up on the next "celebrity" big brother'

If she's found to be at fault, do you think NCL will ban her? Come back, MrBloom, tell us, if you get chucked off a ship for being a douchebag, do the other lines blacklist you?

Bizarre that the Daily Mail are making a huge deal over the fact that she is a flight attendant for Virgin. Would they care if she was a Tesco cashier, a healthcare assistant or a customer host on the railway?

It's the Mail, Polar. They'll report on how much her house is worth, but not on how much she's spunked on turning herself into an Alvin and the Chipmunks impersonator (she probably could have gone on some cracking cruises for that price of that, I know which I'd rather have).

So is there any chance her hair was wet from the shower and she was pissed and made it up and now has to style it out and she can’t say she made it up in case she looks like a twat?

Well, no. There's CCTV of her falling, and another ship fished her out of the sea.

The significance of her being a flight attendant is that she probably had done some basic sea survival as part of her training?

FlintyBadman please do post a photo of yourself so we can all take the piss . . .

Yes Puzzled- my mum's neighbour died on a cruise (it was meant to cheer him up after a serious illness. Oops) and it was quite complicated to repatriate him owing to where it happened, registered country of ship,his nationality,cause of death etc.

So definitely good insurance required.

I'm still laughing at the comment about being taken in by a pod of whales as one of their own!

If she's found to be at fault, do you think NCL will ban her? Come back, MrBloom, tell us, if you get chucked off a ship for being a douchebag, do the other lines blacklist you?

What about if your a douchebag who chucked them self off the ship?

I would assume if that were the case you'd have far worse to worry about than being banned from a cruise line, you, like, for example, criminal charges.