One To Drop Off, One To Pick Up
Two things you're guaranteed to see when you go on a cruise, delivery trucks and ambulances!
Cruise ships these days are pretty much floating resorts and they need to have all the amenities onboard to keep the passengers and the crew happy. On turn around day you'll see a long, long line of trucks dropping off supplies, everything from your surf and turf dinner to mechanical parts to make repairs to the ship itself. Then there's the Ambulances.
Maybe it's a sprained ankle. Maybe it's an asthma attack. Maybe it's a cardiac event brought on by seeing your final bill. Doesn't matter, someone is getting carted off the ship on a gurney and shuttled off to the local medical facility.
All cruise ships do have a medical department that's pretty well equipped and yes, they do have a special freezer to use as a morgue. They not only need to care for the passengers but the crew as well.
We've seen sprained ankles, we've seen broken hips, and Niccy has tended to a passenger that was having a stroke on a river cruise in Amsterdam. It's something we expect to see and though we hate to see it happen it's a sad fact of life. There's always at least one......and not just on Holland America.
One To Drop Off, One To Pick Up
Two things you're guaranteed to see when you go on a cruise, delivery trucks and ambulances!
Cruise ships these days are pretty much floating resorts and they need to have all the amenities onboard to keep the passengers and the crew happy. On turn around day you'll see a long, long line of trucks dropping off supplies, everything from your surf and turf dinner to mechanical parts to make repairs to the ship itself. Then there's the Ambulances.
Maybe it's a sprained ankle. Maybe it's an asthma attack. Maybe it's a cardiac event brought on by seeing your final bill. Doesn't matter, someone is getting carted off the ship on a gurney and shuttled off to the local medical facility.
All cruise ships do have a medical department that's pretty well equipped and yes, they do have a special freezer to use as a morgue. They not only need to care for the passengers but the crew as well.
We've seen sprained ankles, we've seen broken hips, and Niccy has tended to a passenger that was having a stroke on a river cruise in Amsterdam. It's something we expect to see and though we hate to see it happen it's a sad fact of life. There's always at least one......and not just on Holland America.