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Originally Posted by WorldKlas
How Many Cruise Ship Passengers Go Overboard Each Year?
Not all that uncommon. According to this link, 94 out of 200 such incidents since year 2000 have been on Carnival ships. I wonder what percentage of cruise ships are Carnival... Or if there is something about their ships.
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We (in the cruise industry) would call Carnival "The Pink Samsonite" cruise line. Every cruise line gets a nickname based on the typical clientele, (one I worked for was "geriatrics on the sea"), and Carnival is notorious for its clientele.
If I was young, inexperienced, didn't have a lot of money, and just wanted to see what cruising was like, I'd take a Carnival Cruise. You can find all kinds of 3-4 days cruises and you don't have to spend a lot. But, you will be cruising with many others just like that - it's a cross between a mall and a sorority house - and that typically gives you results such as people getting drunk, doing stupid things like climbing railings, and falling overboard.
Stupidity is not reserved for just Carnival clientele, however. Heck, at one office party, we got to hang out on one of our cruise ships that was in port, spend the night there since there would be drinking involved, and despite that the person worked at the cruise line, he still got so drunk that he fell overboard. Granted the ship wasn't moving so the only thing he lost was his job.
However, you can't negate the fact that Carnival does attract totally inexperienced cruisers who tend to be younger, who tend to drink a lot, who tend to stay up all night when they should be in their rooms sleeping.
It goes like this with cruise lines:
Carnival: Pink Samsonite cruise - anyone and everyone who has ever wanted to go on a cruise can go on a 2,3,4 day cruise out of FL for hardly any money. Intelligence and class are not necessary to board.
Royal Caribbean: It, too, feels like a giant mall on the sea, but they have fun things to do on their ships. There's a ton of kids on these ships, too.
Princess: Used to be a joke, got a little better - a step up from Carnival, not as good as Royal.
Disney: I don't think I really need to explain.
Norweigan: Uh...ok. If you have to, because you have no other choice...eh...I guess.
Holland America: If you have young kids, and your young kids need constant stimulation, don't book this line. If you are looking to get away from swarms of people, you LIKE quiet, and you'll spend your entire day in port participating in activities so that at night you don't need a bumping night club onboard, go here. Also, smaller and better crew to passenger ratio. Of all the cruise lines, their food is THE BEST.
Oceania Cruises: Kind of like Holland America but a little more expensive - pretty much everything else is the same.
Celebrity: You got money? Get onboard.
Windstar: You got money? Get onboard.
You're not going to hear many stories about people getting tanked and then falling over the rails on Oceania or Windstar or Celebrity. It's not something faulty with the ships, it really is the type of people that choose the line based on what kind of deals and low prices they can find.
Cheap cruise? Cheap people.
Disclaimer: That is not to say that every single person who chooses Carnival is a cheap drunk who doesn't make wise decisions, so don't get indignant. If you've got any cruising experience, you know I'm right.
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