This is a great post filled with ideas for using cruise ships as a horror location! There’s so many things that make them inherently scary. Cruise ships are certainly a better horror location than hospitals, which we see over and over again!
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There’s a BBC series called Wreck broadcast October 2022 that is pretty much this all over.
I used to work on cruise ships for some six years to pay off my student loan and can assure all the abowe is true and it gets worse. Those water tight doors? They don’t always work and in an emergency there’s a good change some of them would have to be closed by the crew with hand pumps. Against the pressure of rising water pouring in so good luck with that.
The lower passenger decks were called “The down below” as in Babylon 5 and crew members were prohibited to go there alone. We always went in pairs and carried walkie talkies, reporting to security when going down to clean, take supplies to cabins etc. and reported again when finished and on the way up. And this was on a nice quality shipping company ships. There was always some “interesting” types of passengers in the lower cabins.
There was always problems with rubbish being in places it wasn’t supposed to be. Not that big a problem usually, but on a ship rubbish can be a fire hazard. People kept hiding greasy food wrappers, empty liqour bottles, smoldering cigarette butts etc. into maintenace compartments, cleaning supply lockers, toilet ventilation ducts and other really imaginative places. It was a miracle there wasn’t a fire during the times I was working on the galleys.
Oh, and the guns! Now and then, there’d be individuals carrying guns on the ship. If they were spotted, the security goons would talk to them and keep the guns until the end of the trip, when the passengers could collect their guns and be on their merry way. Note the emphasis on “if they were spotted”.
In addition to surgery and morgue the ships also have a brig for detaining unruly passengers (or perhaps ones who don’t part with their guns, I dunno). The brig is located below waterline and it’s the last place evacuation teams will look if there’s a call to abandon ship. And ofcourse there’s always the very minimum amount of crew members available for evacuation teams anyways. Being regular crew, they are already overworked, tired and stressed out and hardly any of them are very well cut for emergency work so they might not be too motivated to check the brig if they had to really risk it. So, don’t get yourself brigged on a ship is what I’m saying.
Cruise ships. How I hate them. Take them to be scrapped every one of them and don’t build a single one more. Happy sailing, Ya’all.