If someone dies during a cruise, international law requires the captain to immediately turn the entire ship around and return to the port where the journey began., No! A death does not automatically mean the entire cruise gets cancelled and the ship turns around. What happens depends on circumstances, location, authorities, itinerary and medical/legal procedures., Most large cruise ships have a morgue where bodies can be kept if a passenger dies during the voyage., Yes. Cruise ships can have a morgue because deaths at sea do happen, particularly given the large number of passengers and the age range of many cruisers. Bodies can be stored until appropriate arrangements can be made at a port., Some of the biggest cruise ships are almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall., Almost! Icon of the Seas is roughly 365 metres long. For comparison, the Empire State Building is about 381 metres to its roof, so turning the ship vertically gives you an absolutely ridiculous sense of scale., Large cruise ships usually have a small jail where dangerous passengers can be locked up until the ship reaches port., Sometimes. Large cruise ships can have a secure detention room called a brig. Someone who becomes violent or seriously threatens others can be confined there until authorities deal with the situation at a port., On the largest cruise ships, there can be more than 10,000 people on board at once, including passengers and crew., Almost. This sounds exaggerated but isn't. Icon of the Seas can accommodate up to about 7,600 passengers + 2,350 crew. That's 9,950 people — basically 10,000 human beings inside one moving object., Some cruise ships have entire streets and neighbourhoods inside them, including parks with thousands of real plants., Yes! Icon of the Seas has 20 decks and roughly the number of floors in a 20-storey building — except the building is also 365 metres long and moving through the ocean., There are crew members whose job includes going through passengers' rubbish to find valuable objects accidentally thrown away., No. There are waste-management teams, obviously, but cruise ships don't normally employ a special “find passengers' jewellery in the rubbish” team., A cruise ship can carry enough food for passengers to eat tens of thousands of meals during a single week., Yes! 7,000 passengers × 3 meals × 7 days = 147,000 passenger meals and that doesn't even include snacks, extra meals or thousands of crew members. So a huge ship is essentially operating a floating industrial food system., Some modern cruise ships have a special padded room for passengers who become extremely violent or dangerous., Yes. Ships can have secure facilities for dangerous people, and some have spaces suitable for safely containing someone posing an immediate danger. The exact facilities vary from ship to ship., If a passenger falls overboard, the ship can normally stop completely within less than 30 metres, roughly the length of a swimming pool., No. A 250,000-tonne ship does not brake like a car. Stopping or dramatically changing course takes substantial time and distance, depending on speed, conditions and manoeuvre. That's exactly why a person-overboard emergency is so serious., Cruise ships are legally required to carry one empty coffin for every 1,000 passengers, just in case somebody dies., No. Cruise ships are not required to carry one coffin for every 1,000 passengers., Some cruise ships have thousands of CCTV cameras, and security staff can follow a passenger's movements through many public areas of the ship., Yes. Large cruise ships can have thousands of CCTV cameras monitoring public and restricted areas., On some huge cruise ships, crew members use a hidden main corridor that runs through much of the ship. Crew sometimes nickname this type of corridor “I-95”, after the American highway., Yes. Some large ocean liners have a long crew corridor nicknamed “I-95.” It is used by crew to move quickly through the ship., The largest cruise ships have anchors heavier than a fully loaded city bus., Yes. Cruise ship anchors can weigh many tonnes. On the largest ships, an anchor can weigh more than a city bus., Modern cruise ships carry a special team of professional divers so they can enter the water if somebody falls overboard., No. Cruise ships do not have professional divers permanently waiting in diving equipment to rescue people who fall overboard., If someone falls overboard, a huge cruise ship usually keeps sailing because turning back could take several hours., Not really. The ship can turn back, but unfortunately the rescue is virtually impossible by the time a person is noticed, they may already be kilometres behind the ship, and at night it is impossible

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