[ccmay]

Ship's security was probably too busy hitting on 17-year old girls in the bar.

You would think this is a joke, and that fraternization of this type is prohibited by the cruise lines, but you'd be wrong.

I read an article about this not long ago, and in most cases a crewman on a ship is free to fool around with the passengers as long as he doesn't cause any trouble. In fact, considering the number of single women that go on cruises, the ship owners probably find this policy helpful both in selling cruises and in recruiting crew.

The problem is that there are a great many crewmen from Turd World countries where they think any woman who doesn't wear a burka is a harlot, begging to be raped. Also, there are a certain number of criminals that slip through the net. It's rare, but women do get raped and people do get pushed overboard on cruises.

-ccm

[weegee]

There's a pecking order among the crew, I don't think they are all allowed to speak with the customers (passengers).

And they live on the boats for months at a time.

Much of the crew on the cruise I was on was eastern European (for a Finnish cruise line traveling from the US to Central America).

It's a strange life and I don't know that I want to know much of what goes on behind the scenes.

And at sea there aren't restrictions on drinking age or age of consent. It is the discretion of the cruise line. I could see them shrugging their shoulders until some scandal arises.

[beezdotcom]

You would think this is a joke, and that fraternization of this type is prohibited by the cruise lines, but you'd be wrong.

Oh, I was mostly serious when I wrote that line.