Cruise confidential : a hit below the waterline / Brian David Bruns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruns, Brian David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cruise ships--Employees.

Cruise ships.

Cruise ships--Humor.

Ocean travel--Anecdotes.

Ocean travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Travelers' Tales, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt ? or in this case, the dirty water ? on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the areas where the crew works and lives, leaving readers gasping with laughter as they're assaulted nonstop with events that range from the absurd to the utterly bizarre. Stewards fighting over food. Cutlery allowances and other nonsensical rules. What the crew calls those onboard (no, it's not ?passengers"). And of course, the sex. An abu

Contents:

CONTENTS; PART I: Trainee (The Plunge); 1 Strange Bedfellows; 2 Global Warning; 3 Under the Water; 4 Denizens of Babel; 5 Nobody Parties Like Sailors; 6 The Midnight Bahamian Toga Bash; 7 Ship Life 101; 8 Creepy Conch Fritters; 9 Graduation; 10 The End of the Beginning; PART II: Waiter (Promotions); 1 My First, and Only, Clingy Lingerie Model; 2 Pancake Darwinism; 3 The Crew Bar; 4 My Heart Will Go On; 5 The Infamous Filipino Elvis Massacre; 6 Great Whites; 7 Dining on Ashes; 8 The Slings and Arrows ofOutrageous Assumption; 9 Stripping in the Dining Room

PART III: Assistant Maitre d' (Demotion)1 Bogo; 2 Enemy Mine; 3 The Other Sexy Bitch; 4 Tattoo Goo; 5 The Torture of Funship Freddy; 6 Hunger Pains; 7 Viral Infections and You; 8 Something Sweet at Midnight; 9 Showdown and Breakdown; 10 Jamaican Deep Blue; PART IV: The Legend (Destruction); 1 How to Fix an American; 2 Legend; 3 Tongs over Escalators; 4 Frog and Onion; 5 Ice Pirates; 6 The Boatyard; 7 Lost in Panama; 8 The Four Temptations of the Apocalypse; 9 Toast Master General; 10 The Suicide; 11 The Miracle; Epilogue; PART V: Appendices; Glossary of Ship Language; Provisions for a Cruise

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-932361-70-7

OCLC:

798535097