CRUISE SHIP PODCAST INTERVIEWS
Cruise Ship Podcast Interviews are exclusive interviews done with longtime Veterans who have been working on Cruise Ships for many years. We get a closer look at each job title and try to find out all the core details about their life’s at sea. Our goal is to find out all the features of their jobs and how they were employed.
Crew Life@Sea podcast interviews have a large amount of unique vital information that will help assist and help anyone trying to find employment onboard a cruise ship. It will help you understand more about the life onboard, procedures and some hidden secrets.
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PODCAST EPISODES
Rating
3/5
ABLE SEAMAN
It Happened So Quick, I Thought I Lost My Finger While Working Onboard A Cruise Ship.
It was in a tender operation where the sea was really rough. I was almost on the hook. This is where we secure the hook from the tender and my thumb gets…
Duration 26:38
ASSISTANT WAITER
Rough Seas And An Explosion Of An Engine !!!
I remember my last cruise ship company the duty hours were very bad. It’s supposed to be in our contract only 11 hours, but we get more than twelve hours. For example; at dinner time, we finish at eleven o’clock, and that’s exactly 11 hours’ duty. But the problem is……
Duration 17:57
Rating
4.6/5
Rating
4.8/5
BJJ AT SEA
How To Sail The World On A Cruise Ship To Train Jiu Jitsu..
I need to get back out there. I’ve been so busy with work after camp. Usually, it’s like this, we had 50 people here for the camp, so it was really nice, it was really busy. Alright, let me put on some music. Roll first…
Duration 1:16:30
BROADCAST MANAGER
I Really Forgot To Push The Button
The benefits I had as a broadcast manager is I always had a single cabin, it was always big and nice, I always got my laundry done for me. My cabin steward always came in and cleaned my cabin and gave me new towels every day, you get to eat in an officer mess…
Duration 23:52
Rating
4/5
Rating
4/5
BUTLER MANAGER
The Most Exciting Thing Happened When I Lost My Memory
“We get external inspectors came on board and check our public health inspections and we almost got through there, but that was the toughest day, so every crew member has to work really hard every night almost…”
Duration 21:48
CABINS
Lets Talk About Cabins
You get two beds most of the cases it’s a bunk bed, one at the bottom and one at the top. So when you sign on you just hope you’re the first person in that cabin, because if you’re not, you’re for sure on the top, because…
Duration 18:18
Rating
5/5
Rating
5/5
CASINO DEALER
Who Said Ghosts Don’t Cruise.
It happened on my very first contract, I could hear something. I was going to smoke somewhere on the open deck. 3 decks up from my cabin, I could hear something. After that, I could hear the footsteps. I was a little bit afraid so I was ready to go back to my room…
Duration 26:18
CRUISE DIRECTOR
I CANT BELIEVE IT !!! The Audience All Went Silent.
The moment you realize that there’s something wrong, whether he’s related to sound, lights, the rigging that the curtain doesn’t come up. One of the staff has fallen and so on, what I’ve done always, I go out on stage and these are what a good Cruise Director comes to it. You need to have material, you need to be able to keep the people entertained and that’s…
Duration 23:12
Rating
4/5
Rating
3/5
DANCER
Can This Be True A Gigolo Onboard With 12 Guys.
Blocking is just placement. So you choreograph placements throughout the performance, so even where you put your microphone stand down and which one you pick back up, which entrance and exit you take, which number, we have numbers from 1 to 5 on each side of the stage, left and right, and you have to be on your number at a certain time otherwise you could crash with another performer or you might…
Duration 25:55
DESKTOP PUBLISHER
Indesign & Photoshop – Do You Really Need It?
How I climbed the ladder onboard from being just a waiter and eventually becoming a Skilled Desktop Publisher that requires advanced software programs like Photoshop, Corel and even Indesign…
Duration 29:39
Rating
3/5
Rating
5/5
EXPEDITION STAFF
Glaciers & Tsunami’s In The Antarctica.
If we have 200 guests we might have to take them ashore in 3 different landings, each guest gets an hour and a half ashore in one group, then the second group will come out and then the third group. So they’re onshore for an hour and a half, you’re onshore for 4 and a half hours plus whatever time there is to get out…
Duration 27:34
FITNESS INSTRUCTOR
What Else Could Go Wrong?
I was one of the lucky few who didn’t get a hotel because seeing that I had to leave on the day, they informed me on the day, it was an emergency flight, it was the only flight to get to the ship, so I flew 30 hours from Durban, South Africa all the way to Bogota, Colombia. So I reached Colombia at 9:30 at night looking like a zombie…
Duration 25:42
Rating
4.7/5
Rating
4.3/5
HOUSEKEEPING
Those Chemicals Are Amazing – How Do We Get Them.
Embarkation day was the toughest. It’s the busiest day and the longest day for us. Sometimes things don’t go the way you want, but you just have to pick yourself up and just man up to it, because at the end of the day, the day will end, and it will get done, believe me, the ship will sail…
Duration 24:40
IT COMMUNICATIONS
We Have Lost All Communication.
Well, thing is that is when there is a big break down, that is the main hardware failure you know, in the cruise industry, the business highly depends on the computers and computer network. So when that goes down yes that is a serious problem. We do have shore support 24/7 so there is always someone out there to help me in case I can’t fix things myself. So that’s the kind of challenge…
Duration 24:40
Rating
4.3/5
Rating
4/5
RECEPTIONIST
Why Did He Do That? Find Out What Went Wrong.
I was supposed to do an afternoon shift, I start at 12 o’clock but I woke up from an announcement from the bridge to ask that all the crew members must go back to their position right now. So after I heard the announcement I went back to the reception, the first thing I see is that the whole reception area is packed, lines from the reception all the way…
Duration 23:58
ROOMS DIVISION MANAGER
Getting Caught Naked And A Thousand Penguins.
My normal day starts at about 06:30 in the morning, and I go through
room service first, I check my room service operation, then butler manager,
check the laundry operation to see if it’s going well, because soon the people
will come to collect the bedding, the napkins from the restaurant, the
utilities collects for the crew uniforms and…
Duration 23:33
Rating
4.5/5
Rating
5/5
SCAMS
Let’ Talk About Cruise Ship SCAMS.
They asked for another hundred and something pounds to do this, and so overall it came to like six hundred. So in order for him to get this job that he will get four thousand pounds, he had to spend six hundred to get all this approved paperwork and visas, which is all a lie. So what they would normally do is…
Duration 17:08
SPA MANAGER
What Does Love & Being In Love & Ships Have In Common?
You make sure the guest is happy, you make sure the beauty therapist, the hair dresser, the fitness instructor, the massage therapist does their job the way they’re supposed to do. You make sure all the paper work is done, everybody is following company procedure and…
Duration 21:43
Rating
4.3/5
Rating
5/5
WAITER
Smiling Is It Really The Cure To Everything?
Smaller ships, you can take care of your guests really well, because you can know them very well. You know what to get, you know what they want. You can anticipate what they need. And on the bigger ships, every day, new guests. You know their names, you make them feel welcome, but it’s just not…
Duration 22:53