Crazy But True Stories That Happened On Cruise Ships

You've saved all year to take the vacation of a lifetime on a

cruise

. After you set sail, the fun begins, the band starts playing, and soon you'll be gorging yourself on seemingly endless buffet items. After a few days, too many drinks and a couple of extra kilos added to your body, that night you decide to participate in the "Murder Mystery" party. You love that kind of thing, the "whodunit" caper... you remember the last time you played and the murderer was the servant, who committed the murder with a lead pipe in the ballroom. Halfway through the game, people start running around covered in blood, and of course you think this is all part of the fun.

It's not... someone has really been murdered. What we just told you is a

true

story, and now we explain it to you. 10. The

cruise

ship murder In 2017, the Emerald Princess left Seattle with 3,400 people on board on a voyage to Southeast Alaska. One of those passengers would not survive the trip. During the night of the murder mystery party, a couple on that boat was having a domestic dispute, a dispute that would end with the man beating his wife to death. Soon the staff and doctors arrived at the scene and what they saw before them was a woman covered in blood.

A ship security officer subdued the man and handcuffed him. Some passengers on the boat had heard screams and some later saw staff with the woman's blood on them. A passenger later told the media: “People were running down the aisle covered in blood and trying to call security.” In fact, they thought it was some kind of trick, just part of the game, but of course they were wrong. It was later revealed that the woman had died from blunt force trauma to the head and face. The man admitted what he had done and is now in prison. He could face a life sentence.

Have stranger things

happened

on cruise

ships

? The answer is yes and, as always, we will save the best for last. Maybe "better" is the wrong word...we probably should have said "worse." 9. Poop Cruise In 2013, some of the 4,000 people aboard the Carnival Triumph cruise ship woke up to the smell of smoke and the sound of fire alarms. The ship was on fire. What

happened

shortly after was that the ship lost power and was stranded in the Gulf of Mexico. Ok, so the fire was extinguished…surely things couldn't have been that bad. Well... things were really bad. You see, those 4,000 people on that boat didn't have air conditioning...

Most of the time they were left without lights, and some people complained afterward that they had to go without water or food... So why was it called "Poop"? Cruise." This is because the toilets weren't working and sewage was backing up. 4,000 people created quite a bit of poop in the four days the ship was stranded. People later sued the company and described in dramatic detail how people They were crowded on the decks of the ship not knowing how things would turn out. They explained that human sewage from the overflowing toilets was coming onto the deck and there was a terrible stench.

We suppose this may sound quite funny to some of our viewers, but the experience. It was traumatic for those passengers. They had paid for what was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime and instead spent days in the dark in a sea of ​​excrement. This is how one woman later described the experience when testifying in court: “No. I suffered no physical harm. I was hurt mentally… I think about the smell, the stench and the bad things. All the memories come back and I can't stop them.” Another witness said she and others thought they were going to die, and if they didn't, they would just die.

They would get sick from the sewage. She told the court: "There was a lot of urine and faeces up to everyone's brim." The Poop Cruise was definitely a vacation from hell. But as you will see, things could have been worse. 8. Mass Illnesses On the poop cruise, most of the injuries they suffered were mental, but on a cruise ship that left the US for the Caribbean in 2010, many people suddenly became seriously ill. Imagine this. You're on a boat with over 1,800 guests and suddenly hundreds of them start vomiting and get a bad case of diarrhea. The passengers come out on deck and suddenly something turns in their stomach.

They vomit everywhere... and right in front of them another person vomits. It becomes a kind of vomit marathon. In reality, it is what you could call a viral relay. What happened is that a stomach virus was passed from one person to another and in the end this virus affected more than 400 people on the ship. To stop the spread, people were asked to wash their hands frequently or, better yet, isolate themselves in their cabins. This wasn't exactly what you'd call a colorful Caribbean vacation... locked in a cabin waiting for the mass of defecation and vomiting to subside.

That's the problem with cruise

ships

. If a person brings a virus on board, it can spread quickly. We think everyone knows a story about when this happened recently, but that's a story for another day. 7. Bad Weather You've all seen videos of cruise ships having a hard time in bad weather, and generally the ships can handle it even though passengers may be buffeted around a bit. But sometimes ships just get stranded and can't get out of the madness. This happened in 2019 off the coast of Norway. Huge 30-foot waves rocked the Viking cruise ship, causing engine failure. The problem was that it was too dangerous to keep people on the ship, but it was also too dangerous to send ships to evacuate them.

Before that happened, some waves were so big that they broke cabin doors and threw people across their rooms. Of course, they were a little worried that the ship might sink. The authorities were also concerned, so helicopters soon began arriving to remove people from the ship. Nobody died on this occasion. Soon we will come to death. 6. Spying This one is just weird. It happened on the Carnival Cruise ship bound for the Caribbean in 2018. One night, a couple on that ship was in their cabin about to watch television. Suddenly the man noticed something strange, something that looked like a small camera pointing at them.

This camera was pointed at the bed. The man went to investigate and later told the court that it was working and that someone was probably watching them. This company denied that the camera was on, but did admit that there was a camera. The couple called this nonsense and said they could clearly see the camera was working. The guy said he was hot when he touched him. This remains a mystery. The camera was turned over to the FBI and we don't know what happened after that. 5. It's a robbery You wouldn't be surprised if we told you that someone has stolen someone else's belongings while they were on a cruise.

Hey, there are some people in this world who can't resist when they see a smartphone or wallet lying around. But in 2012, 22 Carnival Cruise passengers were assaulted, which is pretty out of the ordinary. They were hiking in the Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta when it happened. In reality, the robbery did not occur on the cruise ship; It happened when people were taking a bus back to the ship. Some kids in the middle of the street didn't move away and the bus had no choice but to stop. After that, the men, what the media called “bandits,” boarded the bus with weapons in their hands.

The surprised tourists were asked to hand over everything of value. That included their watches, jewelry, money, cameras, passports and anything else of any value. Mexican authorities said this was a “rare” event, but the cruise line later said this particular tour would now be suspended. 4. Falls You've probably heard that people fall off cruise ships from time to time, but what you may not know is that it happens quite often. In 2016, a young woman on the Carnival Liberty had been at the bar and it turned out that she had had a total of 19 drinks, which is a lot for someone who weighs only 120 pounds (54 kg).

Then, around 2 a.m., the woman went on deck and sat on a deck chair that was right next to the ship's railing. She was never seen again. You probably think this is a very rare thing to happen, but did you know that from 2000 to 2018, 284 people fell from cruise ships and another 41 people fell from large ferries? This is a lot. We also found some more recent cases where this happens, and the outcome is usually not good, although sometimes people are saved. There have also been some cases where people intentionally jumped off a ship. 3. The pirates of Somalia In 2005, a cruise ship traveling off the coast of Somalia was attacked by pirates.

This must have been quite terrifying for the passengers because when the pirates approached the ship they fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. There were only 302 passengers on the ship and most of them were from the United States and the United Kingdom. An American woman interviewed explained to the media what she witnessed. She said: “My daughter saw the pirates through our window. “There were at least three RPGs that hit the ship, one in a cabin four doors down from our cabin.” Yes, can you imagine that? A Briton on the ship said he saw the pirates shooting and said one of the rockets from the rocket launchers went through the liner and into a suite where some people were staying.

Fortunately, the ship managed to keep the pirates away using a water hose and a long-range acoustic device. None of the passengers were injured during the ordeal, although one of the crew members was injured. This was quite unusual since cruise ships have so many people on board. Pirates tend to opt for cargo ships where there is a lot of loot and only a few crew members. 2. A modern disaster You all know about the sinking of the Titanic, but some of you may not have heard of the Costa Concordia disaster of 2013. That ship was sailing with 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew on Friday, January 13 when it hit a rock.

A hole opened in the hull and water began to enter the ship, as the gigantic ship turned on its side. During the event, 32 passengers and crew died, and after what happened the ship's captain was imprisoned accused of involuntary manslaughter. He also abandoned the ship to save his own life and thus became known as "Captain Coward." Some people say he was made a scapegoat for the disaster, even though the coast guard captain shouted, “Get on board, damn it!” I didn't think that was the case. Titanic 2 One of the worst disasters to ever occur on a passenger ship occurred in 1914 and the ship was called RMS Empress of Ireland.

Those old passenger ships weren't exactly cruise ships, but back then they were the closest thing to a modern cruise ship. Passengers on board could enjoy the luxury of a first-class suite or could get much cheaper second- and third-class cabins. While sailing through thick fog on the St. Lawrence River in North America, the boat's crew could barely see anything... and suddenly BANG. She was hit by the Norwegian miner SS Storstad in the early hours of the morning. This disaster occurred about two years after the Titanic sank and killed about 1,500 people, so the ship was equipped with spacious lifeboats and had watertight compartments.

No one ever thought that something like the Titanic disaster could happen again. In reality, it took only 14 minutes for the ship to fill with water and sink, so there wasn't much time to get people to those lifeboats. Of the 1,477 people on board the ship, 1,012 died. It was Titanic, the sequel. The disaster killed rich and poor and claimed the lives of quite a few notable people. All the survivors were picked up while floating in the water, and among them there were only four children. That fateful day a total of 134 children died. One of the reasons so many people died was because the impact was very sudden and almost everyone was fast asleep at the time of the collision.

The Norwegians later said that the Empress of Ireland was at fault, but the captains and crew of that ship said that it was the Norwegian ship that had caused the accident. One of the survivors, who was one of the children saved, later said in interviews that she remembered how beautiful the ship was and called it a "floating hotel." She said that she remembered how wonderfully the orchestra played. One night she went to bed and a knock woke her up. Before she knew it, she was floating in the water holding on to some remains of her. She was eventually saved, but lost both of her parents.

Now we think you just have to watch this incredible video, “Where Did All the Titanic Bodies Disappear?” Or watch "50 Crazy Facts About the Titanic You Didn't Know."