Scariest Moment aboard a Cruise

[evandbob]

Whats the scariest thing to happen while you were on a cruise?

 

On one of our cruises, dont remember which one, a helicopter (coast guard) Picked someone up in a gurney to bring to a hospital.. I recall they had a heartattack...

 

It was on the way to Bermuda~~

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I was a solo male cruiser having 9 women as dinner mates.......

[Bookworm29]

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I was a solo male cruiser having 9 women as dinner mates.......

 

Were you from a small midwestern college:confused:

[JoeMissile]

Whats the scariest thing to happen while you were on a cruise?

 

On one of our cruises, dont remember which one, a helicopter (coast guard) Picked someone up in a gurney to bring to a hospital.. I recall they had a heartattack...

 

It was on the way to Bermuda~~

 

Why was scary to you?

 

I'd think when presented by the situation you describe, most people would be curious as what happened or concerned for the individual. Fright seems a bit odd...

[Maryscooking]

Wow, there are some really bad moments in this thread! So of course, I'll add mine...

 

Back in 2005, all six of us children had finally turned 21, so my parents took us all on a cruise. The three boys (21,22, and 24) just lived it up all week, but had some disagreement with another kid on the ship. According to my brothers, on the last night of the cruise, he completely out of the blue smacked my 22 yr old in the head with a beer bottle. Well, said brother is about 6'4" and built, and just turned around and decked the kid hard enough to knock him out. And then walks down to the infirmary to get stitches (his ear was a big mess). The other two brothers managed to avoid getting in a brawl and leave too. (Thats not the scary part, just sets the scene for the next day)

 

So the next morning we were supposed to meet for breakfast and then disembark. The youngest brother doesn't show. According to the other two, he never came to bed last night. So we think maybe he wound up in some girl's cabin, or passed out somewhere, but he is nowhere to be found. They finally packed his carry on bag and took it to the guest service area where we were waiting.

 

Guest services starts paging him. Guest services tells us that every cabin on the ship has been searched and is empty. My husband and brothers go and search all the bathrooms on the ship, and anywhere else they can think of. By this time everyone except us has disembarked, and crew has been searching for a good 45 minutes (after my brothers had been looking for about an hour). It seemed like there was no way he could be on the ship.

 

I really honestly thought he was dead, gone overboard. Either because he drank too much and fell, or because the kid my other brother knocked out found him and pushed him over (even accidentally). He was a bit of a wild card at that age. I just had such a pit in my stomach. Even five years later, I get this chill thinking about that feeling. We were all just standing there looking at each other. Someone from guest services wanted to escort us to some room off the ship and my mom snapped back that she was NOT leaving without her son! My dad tried to persuade her to go to the private room, and that was the worst moment, because I realized he was thinking the same thing I was.

 

And then the kid just walks down the stairs out of nowhere. Not kidding.

 

He had no idea anyone was looking for him. He had passed out on the highest deck of the ship, and apparently the cleaning crew had cleaned (leaving him there) and roped off that area. So no one searched it. He said he couldn't hear anyone paging him. I don't think a single one of us talked to him the whole rest of the trip home, or for several days later.

[westcruzer]

Everytime it comes close to cruise time....about a month out...I have dreams of falling overboard....or whe i took my kids...that my youngest who was 6 at the time fell overboard. I know that didn't actually happen but it drives me nuts then I wake up.

[fruitbat]

I broke my leg ziplining in St. Marten in 2007. The scariest part was letting my husband and son get back on the ship while they left me in St. Marten in a hospital where everyone only spoke French and I only spoke English. The next morning they put me on a plane (literally, since I couldn't walk) to the next port.

[alfaz]

Scariest cruise experience (my one and only cruise) was leaving my boyfriend for an 8 day cruise I had booked before I met him. Best thing was he became my fiance the day I got back. I think he missed me. Has taken 17 years but I have just convinced him to go on a cruise together.

 

Leah

[Northern Bear]

Without having to go back through all the pages is there a winner? How about a top 5?

[spacewoman]

3years ago we were sailing out of port canaveral on the glory. we had jsut left our cabin to go to mdr and i see a man and woman in the hall, woman crying and man obviously upset. passign by, we heard "should we get the dr?" well me beign the nosy person i am AND being a RN, i asked if there was something wrong and could i help? the man hestitated, but MOM asked me if i could take a look at her teen age son. I go in and this kid is SNOWED. i peel back his eyelids and his pupils are so dilated, you can barely se his eyecolor. i told hubby( who is a police officer) to get the ships doctor NOW!. i was too afraid to move the kid. i felt around his head while questioning mom and dad to see if he had fallen, taken any thing, what(if any) meds he was on. I find a large lump behind his L ear. as the ships dr arrives, little brother tels mom and dad that his borhter had gotten in a fight yesterday, but didnt want to tell them and get grounded during the cruise. doc looks over th kid, gets on the ships phone, and THE SHIP IS TURNED AROUND TO GO BACK TO PORT CANAVERAL. we were only a cpl hrs out and apparently it was fasgter to turn around than to get coast guard here. found out later kid had a subdural hematoma and underwent emergency surgery in port canaveral.

he recovered, but scary cpl of hrs, spec for the parents.

 

baf

 

 

 

Oh my GOD and thank GOD you are a nosy nurse!!!!!!

 

for any of you naysayers out there --- I have two words for you

NATASHA RICHARDSON

 

Lady - you saved that kid's life - if the parents kept going back and forth on calling the ship's Doc he would have died.

 

Pat yourself on the back Here's mine (patting you on the back)

 

Kathy

[Rocknsoul]

Everytime it comes close to cruise time....about a month out...I have dreams of falling overboard....or whe i took my kids...that my youngest who was 6 at the time fell overboard. I know that didn't actually happen but it drives me nuts then I wake up.

 

For some reason that happens to me when I even THINK about taking my kids on a cruise, which I really want to do (DH refuses to share me with the kids on a ship at this point)!

 

It's very frustrating, because I know thousands upon thousands of kids cruise each year, but my brain does crazy things. Instead of dreaming about it, though, the image flashes in my head right before I fall asleep. Good luck getting back to sleep after that!

[Rocknsoul]

I broke my leg ziplining in St. Marten in 2007. The scariest part was letting my husband and son get back on the ship while they left me in St. Marten in a hospital where everyone only spoke French and I only spoke English. The next morning they put me on a plane (literally, since I couldn't walk) to the next port.

 

There was another post about a woman breaking her leg ziplining...I hope you don't mind my asking, how does that happen?

 

Your experience would be scary. Hope your leg hasn't suffered any ill effects.

[pambud96]

This happened after our cruise. But still counts.

We had a whole day to waste in Miami before our flight left at 7pm, So we rented a car and rode around to see the sights. We stopped for just a few minutes at a beach to take some pictures and when we came back our car had been broken into. Purse, all money CC,plane tickets (this was in 1996), Everything valuable was gone.

The police expect this to happen and are not very helpful. It seems theifs follow car rentals out of the parking lot and wait for you to leave your car.

[rednose83]

Waking up in the middle of the night on the CCL Spirit while having a miscarriage. It was my first pregnancy and I literally thought I was dying until I realized what exactly was going on.

[MsSoCalCruiser]

Age 6.

Breaking the rules on the Queen Mary.

Being blown across the lido in gale force winds and rain and as I was just going over the railing being yanked from behind and pulled back on deck.

I am 52 today but still remember seeing the sea coming up to engulf me.

Thank goodness and God bless the crew member that most assuredly saved my life.

 

Sorry that I don't have a funny remark to make but it was not only stupid but scary. I obey the rules and regulations while on board now.

 

Wow, I wouldn't have allowed you to let go of my hand after that. Were you ok for the rest of the cruise? That had to be just awful for you. Yes, God bless the crew member that saved your life.

[MsSoCalCruiser]

Waking up in the middle of the night on the CCL Spirit while having a miscarriage. It was my first pregnancy and I literally thought I was dying until I realized what exactly was going on.

 

 

I'm so sorry.

[rednose83]

I'm so sorry.

 

Thank you.

[goofytoo]

I took my daughters who were about 11 and 9 on an excursion to Tulum. We were in the middle of a tour and about 12 soldiers carrying M-16 type rifles walked right through our group while our guide was in the middle of telling us one of his stories. They were holding them like they were ready to shoot, they were not carrying them on their shoulders. This was a little unsettling and the guide told us not to worry he paid his utility bill that morning. Everybody laughed and we moved on to the next ruin. While the guide is talking to us with his back to one of the ruins a man came out on the ruin. He was about 6 feet off the ground and was right behind the guide. He was holding a machette and bent down with the machette and started to swing it. I was just about to scream when I realized he was just cutting the weeds off the ruins with the machette. I had to laugh at myself, but the rest of the trip I kept thinking how stupid I was for bringing my children out in the middle of nowhere, in a country where I did not speak the language and obviously had no clue about their culture.

 

Later we heard that there was a drug deal gone bad at the ruins a few days previously and someone was killed. That is why the soldiers were there.

 

Of course I still drag my kids to foreign countries. But I will not take our daughter to the mainland when we are Cozumel in couple of weeks, nor will we be going to Coki Beach in St Thomas, even though St Thomas is part of the U.S..

[zenful6219]

My scariest moment during a cruise actually occurred during an excursion in Jamaica. So, technically it was part of the cruise. ;)

 

We signed up for the Appleton Estate rum tour which is about 30-40 miles away from port. We were on a bus that was on a narrow (to us), winding, two-lane road. The traffic was extremely heavy and it seemed the bus was going faster than it should have, but that might have just been me. With all the winding and turning, and trees zipping buy, and the air conditioner not quite keeping things cool, I began to develop motion sickness. I normally don't get motion sickness, but this was so bad that I was constantly on the verge of throwing up. It took every ounce of will power not to do it. I'm happy to say, I succeeded, but it was scary that I might get sick and ruin the trip for everyone else. :eek:

[going2cruz]

Jamacia

[danvinson]

Dh and I went on our first cruise in Feb of 1996 - Carnival Fascination - with friends. The boys had heard there was a "nude" deck. So, on one of the sea days they ventured up to that deck to see what they could see.

 

That day, the only person up there was a nude MAN. We laughed and laughed when they came back to tell us girls about it. My husband claims that that was the scariest thing he's ever seen on a cruise ship or elsewhere for that matter! : )

 

DH, DS, DD AND I will be taking our 6th cruise over new years with all of my family plus DH's sister. I don't want to comment yet but THAT may be the scariest cruise I have ever been on. Most of them have never cruised before and while I think they will love it, you never know!! : )

[wimsiecruise]

Some fears are more imagined than real, but still scary !

My Celebrity Horizon cruise (2004/2005, I think), was a bit of a cruise from Hades! Right from the get-go, starting with the poorly planned New Year's Eve party on deck, with rough seas and high winds (paper plates and napkins flying all over the place), to the nights where my cabin shook so bad I couldn't sleep...But, the frightening moment came in the middle of the night, when I thought the Horizon had run aground ! I was alone and in an inside cabin (in the bowels of the ship), and it was hard to tell with the noise of the engines what was going on. (I heard later that they reversed the engines, and they did lose one of the stabilizers). I was certain we had hit a sandbar, so in a panic, I got up, got dressed, wrapped my passport, cash and airline ticket in a plastic pouch and then, still trembling, I proceeded to my muster station, certain that most of the passengers were already jumping into their lifeboats and I might be too late...I expected screaming and chaos and instead, was surprised to note that there was no one in the hallway or anywhere else for that matter. So, feeling somewhat silly but calmer, I decided to look for the 24 hour coffee place and couldn't find that anywhere either. Meanwhile the ship's security cameras were following me around...I found that out next day when I went to the purser's office to ask to change rooms. I told him I couldn't sleep and he said "I know, we saw you and were wondering what you were up to".. So, moral of the story, even fears that are not real and are just imagined, can scare the heebie-jeebies out of you ! I thought I was going to die at sea.....

[GlendaleCruiser]

Jamacia

 

You and me, both:eek:

[Forchunut1]

My scariest moment was being awakened at 3:00 in the morning by the ship seriously listing to one side and stuff sliding off the desk and any other surface in the cabin. The next day we received a letter under our door saying it was an unexpected "gust of wind". REALLY???

[tandtmk04]

Think it could be the 70+ year old men wearing SPEEDOS!! :eek: Then last year we were on the GLORY on the Sports Deck (you know where LOTS of kids like to play, hang out) there was a Corn Hole (Southern) or as the people from up North call it "Bags" (per my nephew's ha ha) tournament going on and there was a lady probably in her late 60's laying in the sun right next to the Corn Hole Boards practially bottomless!!! Laying on her stomach with her @#* hang completely out making everyone around sick. Everyone around was laughing, talking and taking pictures (yes, pictures) and she just continued to lay there. After about an hour her husband covers her up and she GOES OFF on him on "how she was there first and people that don't like it (that was abou 40-50 plp) they could just get over it). Needless to say my kids (9-13 at the time) got to experience a site they will sure to remember for awhile! LOL :confused: Bet you can guess what Island we just left that day...... ST MARTEEN..... where you guess it (from everyone talking) she was at the nude beach showing all her GLORY that day!! HAHAHAHA!! :eek::eek::eek: (Now the vision is back in my head) :o

[back2tampa]

On our first cruise we were the last boat out of Cozumel before Hurican Wilma hit.When we left we had the Conquest next to us and I was on the balcony and could see the huge waves hitting the Conquest and then I went down to the lobby and they were taking down everything off the shelves and tying the piano down.(also they had barf bags everywhere)The dining room was less than half full and so many people got sea sick.I have never been in the seas that were so bad.The waves were so bad that you could feel the spray on the balconys.

This was our first cruise and really the best one even though the hurican was chasing us we still got in three ports and Carnival took great care of us.