Shiprocked Culture: Bands, Rocking Amps, and Falling Off the Boat

• 17:29Tim describes the dark thought of jumping off the boat in the middle of the night while looking at the blackness of the ocean.
• 17:41If you fall off at night, you're done—there's no rescue protocol that works in darkness.
• 18:04A ship security guard told Tim about a husband and wife case where the wife disappeared, she was heavily insured, and the husband had a domestic violence record.
• 18:47People who work on boats commit suicide all the time, which Tim finds shocking given how often it would happen.
• 19:13Tim was assigned a steerage cabin with a porthole on the fifth floor while Bird Crusher had a suite with a living room, balcony, and ocean-view bathtub.
• 19:26The boat was actually rocking so much that Tim climbed the walls and became anxious in his tiny cabin.
• 19:57There are dedicated cruise people who travel frequently and have strong opinions about different cruise lines, with one woman warning another against Carnival.
• 20:26Tim describes cruise boats as dumps where the staff-to-passenger ratio is one-to-one or one-to-two, unlike luxury lines with a four-to-one ratio.
• 21:19A massive cruise ship has Broadway shows, water parks, and 24-hour buffets—Tim questions why anyone would want all that while trapped on a boat in the middle of the ocean.
• 22:09A rock band on the cruise jumped off their cabin into the water just to see what would happen, which Tim suspects might have been a suicide attempt.
• 22:21Tim and his group never expected to end up on a cruise, especially opening for Papa Roach.

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