Cruise Ship SOS

Author: Neil Simpson
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1848946821
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Who gets the call if it all goes wrong at sea? Meet Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spending a year as a repatriation doctor, he's heading around the world as a ship's doctor - and with 3,000 passengers and crew to look after he's in for the most exciting trip of his life. On one dramatic voyage he deals with broken bones and broken hearts, and picks up the pieces after fights in the crew bar and freak accidents on shore leave. So join Ben and his colleagues and find out why ship's doctors think bar stools should carry health warnings, why the casino can be safer than the sick bay in a storm and why no amount of sharks, pirates or tidal waves will ever be as dangerous as the midnight buffet.

S.O.S.

Author: Dean Ananias
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939457875
Category : Cruise ships
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
S.O.S.: Spirit of Survival is a one-of-a-kind story of the incredible fortitude that ordinary people can conjure in order to overcome even the most harrowing of disasters. Told from the point of view of each of the five members of one family, this book offers a unique and detailed look into the truth behind the headlines surrounding the Carnival Cruise Line's Costa Concordia cruise ship sinking off the coast of Isola del Giglio, Tuscany in January of 2012. Their astounding account of the tragic events before, during and, perhaps most shockingly, after the enormous cruise ship ran aground are sure to amaze readers. However, the true messages of this book are hope and profound inspiration, as this family's bond deepens and strengthens through their ultimate survival journey.

Cruise Ship Stories

Author: Guy Beach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781492762652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
If you are reading this intro, then I take it that you have an interest in cruise ships. It could be you want to work on a cruise ships, you want to or have taken a cruise, maybe you are looking for tips on cruising or maybe you just like fun stories about cruise ships. If you are interested in any of those items I just listed, then this book is for you.Before we begin our journey, I guess I should tell you a little bit about myself and why I have written this book. For my cruise ship experience, I worked about 12 years on cruise ships around the world and 2 years working in shore side offices in Florida. I worked with 4 different cruise lines and worked as a scuba instructor/dive manager, shore excursion manager and then in the shore side offices as an IT geek, and finally a few years as an IT officer (yeah, I know, scuba instructor to computer geek, what can I say, it has been an interesting journey).Stories in this book include ones about:Getting a job on cruise shipsLife on board shipsOn board romanceHurricanesRunning agroundAdrift at seaKick backsFalling overboardLiving on a tropical islandCrazy things the crew and passengers doand much much more........................I also have photos about my life at sea that can be seen at: www.cruiseshipstories.comLooking at these photos will bring my sea faring stories even more to life.

Unsafe on the High Seas: Your Guide to a Safer Cruise

Author: Charles R. Lipcon
Publisher: I Adels Inc
ISBN: 0979780705
Category : Cruise ships
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description

Devils on the Deep Blue Sea

Author: Kristoffer A. Garin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452287340
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
In this terrifically entertaining history, journalist Kristoffer A. Garin chronicles the cruise-ship industry, from its rise in the early sixties, to its explosion in the seventies with the hit show The Love Boat, to the current vicious consolidation wars and brazen tax dodges. Entrepreneurial genius and bare-knuckle capitalism mate with cultural kitsch as the cruise lines dodge U.S. tax, labor, and environmental laws to make unimaginable profits while bringing the world a new form of leisure. A colorful and compelling behind-the-scenes narrative, Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is a definitive look at the industry and its robber barons who created floating empires.

Death Cruise

Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581820072
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
Collects stories written by such members of the International Association of Crime Writers as Agatha Christie, Nancy Pickard, John Lutz, Piet Teigeler, Barbara Collins, Jan Burke, and John Mortimer.

Dead Silence

Author: S.A. Barnes
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
ISBN: 1250778557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library • One of the Best SFF Books of 2022 (Gizmodo) • One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022 (CrimeReads) • A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction! Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find is shocking: the Aurora, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick search of the ship reveals something isn’t right. Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Messages scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold on to her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate. "Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense.” Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Goodnight, Sorry for Sinking You

Author: Ralph Barker
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Story of the destruction of the SS City of Cairo. While en route to Recife, Brazil, it was torpedoed by the German U-boat, U-68 in 1942.

Wait and Sea

Author: Hans Rade
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520938554
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
If you have been at sea for more than 26 years, you're bound to have a lot of stories to tell!This is particularly true for a man who has worked as waiter aboard cruise liners for more than two decades!In this book Mr. Rade -Johannes in real life - allows us the luxury of participating in his various experiences over the years. He narrates in a very lively and vivid manner and is candid about what impressed him the most. No matter whether he is recounting an anecdote regarding his initial cruise employee application or taking us on a wild romp throughout his career, stories involving the world champion and record holder in eating lobsters, the 'esteemed' colleagues who are always good for a joke, the numerous international, sometimes bizarre guests - Johannes always strikes the right tone. He makes you feel as though you are actually at his side in the restaurants or on the various decks aboard the ship. You will frequently laugh out loud at his outlandish antics. And even when he refers to serious topics such as the 'Man overboard' alarm, he addresses these subjects with compassion.Let this book take you away on an imaginary cruise to Jamaica, through the Panama Canal, to the Cayman Islands and numerous other destinations. And who knows - maybe this autobiographical tale will inspire you to take a real cruise some day.In any case Johannes's book will undoubtedly arouse your interest in a cruise and perhaps even tempt you to book one! A book, that should not be jugded by the first few pages, a book that offers more and more incredible true stories as you read on and on !!!314

19 Sunsets in a Gilded Cage

Author: Laura Gabaroni
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
It was the vacation of a lifetime - a journey through the southern fringes of the Americas - but a silent killer lurked on the Zaandam cruise liner. As COVID-19 cases surged onboard, countries along this remote route closed their borders and turned the ship away. Without a port to take them in, passengers and crew began to fall ill and die. Quarantined in their rooms, people onboard waited in desperation for a port that would let them dock. Read one passenger's harrowing account of real events on the MS Zaandam and Rotterdam, as they journeyed through the Americas in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow the desperate efforts of all onboard to find safe harbor and return home, while the pandemic spiraled out of control and the world descended into chaos.