Code words are used on cruise ships with which the crew communicates away from nosy passengers.
Because these codes can mean bad things.
Cruises are very popular.
But cruises also have their downsides.
The crew uses certain codes for certain cases.
These codes can also rewrite negative events.
Cruise ship deaths - how often do they really happen?
There are also emergencies on cruise ships - especially on ships carrying older passengers.
Deaths also occur
and the majority have a natural cause.
Heart attacks are the most common cause, according to a report by the UK portal Express.
Cruises are popular with many age groups, but they are particularly popular with the older population.
According to the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) Global Passenger Report 2019, the average age of cruise passengers is 46.7 years.
In
2018, however, the average age was between 60 and 69 years.
According to the report, 14 percent of cruise guests were even over 70 years old.
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What happens if someone dies on the cruise ship?
The code "
Operation Bright Star
" is used
on certain cruise lines in the event of death
.
The crew then communicates the death in this way so that passengers are not alarmed.
There is usually room for three to four corpses on board a cruise ship, although the space is almost never used up.
As the portal The Sun reported, there are more deaths on cruise ships than expected.
Tina Molson worked on board in a duty-free shop from 2002 to 2010.
She explained that unfortunately, deaths on cruises are not uncommon.
"Many of the
older passengers cruise
for
months
because it's cheaper than living at home. Some even go to sea to die," said Molson.
"There was often a fatality on board. On a ship we had a storage room next to the freezer room where the bodies were stored. We called it the 'coffin cabinet'."
If the capacity of the morgue on board is exceeded during a cruise, sometimes even freezers would have to serve. "
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