Not All Cabins Are Created Equal
If you work on a cruise ship, you won’t get your own luxury stateroom, but your position has an impact on your accommodations. On the A-Deck, slightly above water, staff and officers have individual rooms (hello, sunlight). However, according to Anthony Andrieux, who worked on board the Royal Caribbean Line, most workers’ living conditions were not quite as pleasant. “The living situation was ‘tight.’ You stay on the lower deck so you are always under water. There are no windows in the room… You have a very small bunk bed that you literally can not fit someone else into (trust me I have tried). You can touch all four walls if you were to stand in the center of the room to give you an idea. I believe it is a total of about 10 square feet.”
Not All Cabins Are Created Equal
They Are Trained To Handle Pirate Attacks
We don’t commonly think of pirates today, although they are very much alive and well. A pirate taking over a massive cruise ship is extremely rare (really, there’s strength in numbers). In the event that this occurs, cruise crew members are prepared to fight back. Princess Cruises and Oceania Cruises educate their crews to move passengers away from windows and spray intruders with massive water cannons. The tremendous volume of water used by cruise ships could easily overwhelm a small pirate ship. Long Range Acoustic Devices, which make loud, painful noises, can even deter attacks on some ships.
They Are Trained To Handle Pirate Attacks
