Cruise ship crew members committed that after being on lockdown after passengers left

[Pseudonym]

If you’ve ever taken a FULL tour of the ship, The workers live BELOW the water line and it’s half the size of an interior room.




There’s no sunlight until you go higher on the ship. So if they were told to stay in the cabin for months at a time, I can see why they would go crazy.

They pretty much were suffering from cabin fever.

I worked with someone who worked on Royal Caribbean and she said it was worth it because she got to “travel” to different places.

I couldn’t do it.

College dorms drove me crazy . I like my space.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

A year away from civilization, in the middle of the sea, on an ocean liner stocked with every amenity I could want?

What’s the problem?

Problem is you can’t leave your 8x20 room and they probably ain’t feeding you none of that good shyt and the tv is small and sucks and you can’t even use the internet right.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Folks out here privileged and complaining. Folks in Africa aint committing suicide.

Folks in Africa can go outside on land and see their family and friends

 

[ThaBronxBully]

I Don’t Get It Why Weren’t They Allowed To Freely Walk Around The Ship? That’s Insane lol

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

weird that the ship couldn't dock and they get tested to make sure they're negative before they get off.

you gotta be in a real dark place to take your life. just the thought of doing it freaks me out. gotta just tough it out and go through it until you get better days.

 

[Da Jungles]

Me on the boat deck:

When you hit the water:

 

[threattonature]

I'm saying. I could see if they were locked up in an prison cell with no daylight even still I aint killing myself. They were literally on the water, had all the food they could want, I'm sure TV and plenty of books. shyt I would've made the best out of that shyt and been chillin.

That's all fine and good when getting away from life but when that becomes your life I could see it being annoying. Plus from my experience in talking to a lot of workers on the boat while cruising they come from really poor areas and send money back to their families so you have to think of that aspect as well.

 

[Chez Lopez]

Were these suicides?

Doesnt make sense. These were probably murders.

 

[42 Monks]

What did they threaten them with to keep em confined, were there armed guards watching them or something.
Who else was on this ship?

guards likely in some cases, but you have to assume that anyone proving to be a nuisance would be shifted further down the priority list when it comes to leaving and other considerations over finite commodities

 

[getmoney310cpt]

All I need is weed that will last the time I’m there and I’d be cool lol

 

[Him]

shyt as long as I have food and internet I’m good. Would have been smashing all of the baddies too

 

[Loken]

From that Bloomberg link there's another article that gives a little background.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article242380421.html

Cruise companies are allowed to disembark and repatriate people still trapped on ships around the U.S. by private transportation as long as their executives sign an agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that holds the companies accountable for the process. They are refusing to do so.
In conversations with the CDC, cruise company officials have complained that arranging private transportation for disembarking crew is “too expensive,” according to a spokesperson for the agency.

Julia Whitcomb, 24, from Illinois, is one of three American crew members, among 954 total, stuck on the Celebrity Infinity cruise ship, owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. She worked as a singer on the ship. She has spent more than a month confined to a tiny cabin with her boyfriend, a fellow crew member, while the ship floats in and out of U.S. ports.

On Wednesday, as the ship was docked at PortMiami, she was told to pack her bags, say goodbye to her Argentine boyfriend, and check out at the payroll office — she was finally going home. But a few hours later, she got a call from Human Resources telling her that the company’s legal department will not agree to the CDC’s terms, preventing her from getting off, she told the Miami Herald.

 

[Pazzy]

Were these suicides?

Doesnt make sense. These were probably murders.

That too. I've heard about how some of these cruises are crime ridden too. Who knows.

 

[You Win Perfect]

Yooo the first guy died like D'angelo supposedly died in the Wire. I didn't even know it was possible to die from hanging yourself from a doorknob

You would think the mechanics of it wouldn't let it happen because most average sized men are going to be too big for a doorknob to lift them off the floor.

But this is insane that these people weren't allowed to go home. I hope the families get these cruise companies for everything they're worth

A doorknob is inanimate and is incapable of lifting anything You can hang and suffocate your self from anything that will allow you to choke off your blood supply and oxygen. You don’t have to be off dangling from the ceiling.
why do y’all try to sound smart and end up sounding stupid
“U s33 thA qwAunTuhm fiSik$ uF rEalitee p3rPlexEs dA MetaFisaCal NaychEr uf hUmAn beEh@yvur”



But yeah this is basically solitary confinement and it is a method of torture that the prison system uses

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

A doorknob is inanimate and is incapable of lifting anything You can hang and suffocate your self from anything that will allow you to choke off your blood supply and oxygen. You don’t have to be off dangling from the ceiling.
why do y’all try to sound smart and end up sounding stupid
“U s33 thA qwAunTuhm fiSik$ uF rEalitee p3rPlexEs dA MetaFisaCal NaychEr uf hUmAn beEh@yvur”
:laff”

If you and I were to hang ourself from a ceiling, by standing on a chair and kicking the chair out from under ourselves, you die. Unless the rope is weak or inadequately tied, we would die.

Why? Because there are no "backsies". You can't put yourself in that position physically and then say "you know what, I changed my mind"

Hanging from a doorknob is different when all you literally have to do is sit up an inch or two and that takes all the pressure and strain off your neck.

You underestimate the human being and the human bodys propensity to want to stay alive. Most ppl put themselves in situations that they CANT come back from when committing suicide because they know that if they have the option to change their mind when they get down to the wire, that they probably would.

Hanging from a doorknob doesn't put you in that situation. It would take a LOT more to kill yourself from hanging from a doorknob than it ever would by hanging in another situation. Why? Because its so easy to stop.

And I'm basing this off of ppl who have attempted to commit suicide who I have spoken to.

Now of course if you really want to commit that, you're gonna do it. But im saying its harder when you're doing something that you can come back from as opposed to something where you take the option to go back away from yourself.