"Both funny and informative, this story reveals what really happens in the underbelly of a cruise ship, from the highs to the lows." Susie D.,Proofreader, Red Adept Editing"This fun and fact-filled memoir gives landlubbers a fond but not too romanticized glimpse of what it's like to be a crew member on a cruise ship. Journey with this young musician as he learns to live and love at sea." Kim H., Copy editor, Red Adept EditingWritten by a well-published author who worked on cruise ships for more than five years, this often hilarious, sometimes shocking, and always insightful book provides a comical behind-the-scenes look into what it's really like to work on a cruise ship. Take a tour below the waterline and explore the cramped, dirty, and dimly lit crew areas on a revealing journey through the cruise ship's underworld. Go where no passenger has gone before, and learn what the crew eats, where they sleep, how they party, and finally understand why all of the officers are Italian.Climb aboard an adventure on the high seas and witness the wonderful side of ship life where crew members have whirlwind escapades while traveling the world aboard a massive sailing city.Drawing from his experiences working as a musician and an art auctioneer, the author tells the laugh-out-loud and also poignant story of what cruise ship crew members experience from the minute they first step onto a ship to the day they walk down that gangway for the last time.

In this often hilarious, sometimes shocking, and always insightful book, the well-published travel and guidebook writer Joshua Kinser provides a behind-the-scenes exposé into what it is really like to work as a cruise ship crew member. The perfect book to read on your next cruise, Chronicles of a Cruise Ship Crew Member, goes below the waterline to explore the cramped, dirty and dimly lit crew areas on a revealing tour of the ship's underworld. Go where no passenger has gone before and learn what the crew eats, where they sleep, how they party, and finally understand why all of the officers on a cruise ship are Italian. Climb aboard an adventure on the high seas and witness the wonderful side of ship life where crew members have whirlwind escapades while traveling the world aboard a massive sailing city. Drawing from his experiences working as a musician aboard cruise ships for more than five years, Joshua tells the laugh-out-loud funny and also beautifully poignant story of what cruise ship crew members experience from the minute they first step onto a ship to the day they walk down that gangway for the last time.

If you are reading this intro, then I take it that you have an interest in cruise ships. It could be you want to work on a cruise ships, you want to or have taken a cruise, maybe you are looking for tips on cruising or maybe you just like fun stories about cruise ships. If you are interested in any of those items I just listed, then this book is for you.Before we begin our journey, I guess I should tell you a little bit about myself and why I have written this book. For my cruise ship experience, I worked about 12 years on cruise ships around the world and 2 years working in shore side offices in Florida. I worked with 4 different cruise lines and worked as a scuba instructor/dive manager, shore excursion manager and then in the shore side offices as an IT geek, and finally a few years as an IT officer (yeah, I know, scuba instructor to computer geek, what can I say, it has been an interesting journey).Stories in this book include ones about:Getting a job on cruise shipsLife on board shipsOn board romanceHurricanesRunning agroundAdrift at seaKick backsFalling overboardLiving on a tropical islandCrazy things the crew and passengers doand much much more........................I also have photos about my life at sea that can be seen at: www.cruiseshipstories.comLooking at these photos will bring my sea faring stories even more to life.

In this terrifically entertaining history, journalist Kristoffer A. Garin chronicles the cruise-ship industry, from its rise in the early sixties, to its explosion in the seventies with the hit show The Love Boat, to the current vicious consolidation wars and brazen tax dodges. Entrepreneurial genius and bare-knuckle capitalism mate with cultural kitsch as the cruise lines dodge U.S. tax, labor, and environmental laws to make unimaginable profits while bringing the world a new form of leisure. A colorful and compelling behind-the-scenes narrative, Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is a definitive look at the industry and its robber barons who created floating empires.

The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway—COVID-19—days before the world shut down in March 2020. This riveting narrative thriller takes readers behind the scenes with passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers—Americans, Europeans and South Americans, plus 600 crew. Most passengers were over the age of sixty-five. There was concern about the virus on the news, and it had already killed and sickened passengers on other Holland America ships. But that was oceans away, and escaping to sea at the ends of the earth for a few weeks seemed like it might be a good option. The cruise line had said the voyage (three weeks around the South American coastline to see some of the world’s most stunning natural wonders and ancient ruins) would carry on as scheduled, with no refunds. And it would be safe. Among the travelers there is a retired American school superintendent on a dream vacation with his wife of fifty-six years, on a personal quest to see Machu Picchu. There is an Argentine psychologist taking this trip to celebrate her sixty-fourth birthday with her husband, though she finds herself fretting in her cabin on day one, trying to dismiss her fears of what she’s hearing on the news. There is an Indonesian laundry manager who's been toiling on Holland America cruise ships for thirty years, sending his monthly paycheck to his family back home. Within days, people aboard Zaandam begin to fall sick. The world’s ports shut down. Zaandam becomes a top story on the news and is denied safe harbor everywhere. With only two doctors aboard and few medical supplies to test for or treat COVID-19, and with dwindling food and water, the ship wanders the oceans on an unthinkable journey.

These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.

THE PERFECT BOOK TO READ ON YOUR NEXT CRUISE...Climb aboard this hilarious, full-speed-ahead true story about what it's really like to live and work on a cruise ship. From the author of Chronicles of a Cruise Ship Crew Member: Answers to All the Questions Every Passenger Wants to Ask, a #1 bestseller in Amazon's "Cruise" and Caribbean" categories, comes this second book in the Crew Member series by Joshua Kinser, a well-published travel writer and author of twelve books. Book Two delves even deeper into the CREW ONLY area for a behind-the-scenes sea voyage that navigates through the laugh-out-loud ups and downs of a cruise ship crew member's ship life. The nautical adventure begins in the midst of a cold, snowy winter...but then the phone rings. It's the sea calling, and nothing sounds better than walking up that gangway one more time and climbing aboard a cruise ship that has its bow pointed toward warm breezes, cold piña coladas, and beach-lined tropical islands. This time Gertie, a beautiful brunette, is giving the captain's orders during this port-hopping escapade that explores the often seedy and always fast-paced world of cruise ship art auctions. Grab a slice of chocolate melting cake for a deck-swabbing excursion that sails around the Caribbean and across the Atlantic Ocean to ports of call in Germany, England, and beyond. And finally get answers to your cruise ship questions such as: Do you think anyone would rescue my cruise ship manager if I threw him overboard? And, why does the champagne served at cruise ship art auctions always taste about as good as the water that shoots out of a whale's blowhole?

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Reeling from the loss of her sister, Yasmin Alejo takes a job as a cruise ship photographer on board the Radiant Star. All she wants is some time to heal, the way she’s been unable to so far—but her annoying (and annoyingly sexy) boss won’t give her any peace. West Campbell used to care about more than money, but now he has only one goal: squeezing as much profit from the Radiant Star’s photography department as he can, in order to win a prized corporate management job. He won’t let anyone mess with that—especially not the feisty and gorgeous Yasmin, who seems more interested in getting to know passengers than selling them vacation packages. As they sail across open waters, Yasmin and West fight storms, seasickness, and each other, until they can’t deny their connection any longer. Every tantalizing kiss takes their breaths away … but if they can’t get over the past, it might destroy their future. ~ The Sea Swept novels are stand-alone contemporary romance novels and can be read in any order ~ Keywords: photography, romance, new adult romance, contemporary romance, stand alone, stand-alone romance, sexy, beach read, vacation, Caribbean, cruise ship

Hailed as “an extraordinary novel of men at war” (The Washington Post) this is the book that inspired the TNT television series starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Michael Bay as Executive Producer. The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth’s last remaining survivors—and they’ve all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?