Death, illicit affairs and love scams: The sinking truths about life on a cruise ship revealed

When the ship hits the fan, vacationers might be dead in the water — quite literally. No sleep, lifeless bodies and horny cheaters hunting for green cards.That’s life at sea — or so warns cruise ship crew member, Raye, and her colleague, virally unveiling the unpleasant underbelly of luxury liners. “Things about working on a cruise ship that would send normal people into a coma,” said the twosome in unison before detailing the dark sides of working on vacation vessels in a vid. “You get kind of used to hearing that there’s a dead person onboard,” Raye grimly admitted of her gig, noting that she rarely gets any sleep after setting sail and thrives on “7-minute naps.”“Lots of dead bodies,” chimed her coworker with a chuckle.

“There’s a morgue on the ship.”  The gal’s giggle notwithstanding, death on the high seas is no laughing matter.Tragically, however, it is quite common. Three passengers aboard the Dutch cruise liner, MV Hondius, died amid a suspected hantavirus outbreak in May.

An 88-year-old vacationer, too, lost her life on a Carnival Celebration ship last month, plunging into the water after losing control of her mobility scooter in the Bahamas. Dara Tucker, a former cruise singer who lived on boats touring the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, previously revealed the grisly truth behind the “ice cream parties” ship staffers sporadically treat passengers to, alleging, “it’s often because more people have died on the ship than they have room for in the morgue.”“If more than seven people died on that particular ship, they would have to start moving bodies to the freezer,” Tucker explained to over 3 million virtual viewers, “which meant they needed to make room in the freezer.”When cruisers aren’t busy kicking the bucket — or stashing the bodies — they’re busy trying to get busy with their fellow trippers, Raye claims. “Everybody is hotter on a cruise ship,” said her pal in their tr...