beginning to look like their maintenance crew is a bit lax
I believe someone is going to wake up and drill right into the maintenance leadership, their priorities, lack of time between cruises, and a comical philosophy of screw-the-passengers.
What gets me...no federal inspector around to ask stupid questions or delay the start of the next cruise while the ship is sitting there for eight hours dumping the old passengers and taking in new passengers.
There's a show on the WW2 British light cruiser, HMS Belfast. One of the interviews was with sailor whose job it was to tend the diesel generator that powered two of the turrets.
In one engagement, he's at his station, dogged down in the bowels of the ship, and the water pump begins to fail. He looks around, sees a fire hose, and somehow runs it into the cooling system to keep the gen running.
Of course, when you're possibly fighting a German pocket battleship in frigid Norwegian waters, the stakes are a bit higher than when sitting in a Caribbean port.