fishp0ker

Band geek checking in... Football players LOVE us.

it's banned hahaha

I picked up one of those cruise calls... answered three questions.. and got a "free" cruise (just paid taxes). Then instead of going to the sales presentation when I got there "to get boarding passes", I just boarded the ship, because you don't need boarding passes when you check in there. Cruise was pretty ok!

Nope. Wasn't bothered once. Did try to sell me some drinks though ;)

Congrats on your first cruise! It's an amazing thing. I'm 23 and have 84 closer to 100 (forgot about one) days at sea under my belt already :) My first few had no internet, you're a lucky one!

How crazy is it to stare at the stars at night? How many books have you gotten through? Hang out on the bridge yet? The captains usually love company and love to laugh and show you around Doing any trawling? How's your bunk? Bunkmates? Does the ship have any cool stuff like a gym or theater (some of NOAAs ships do!) Isn't taking a shower weird as anything when the water moves side to side? If there is a gym, is there a treadmill, and have you tried to run on it? It's way a weirder experience than the shower.

PS: For anyone who ever wants to go on a cruise, many research operations advertise for civillian volunteers (yay free labor). I've been on two scallop cruises with the NEFSC out of Woods Hole, MA and got to take 20 lbs of seafood home with me :) Google them, email them. I just got a request for volunteers for a spring bottom trawl actually.. going up the US east coast. Pity I work full-time on land now or I'd be on it in a heartbeat :(

Have fun!

Source: I'm a marine biologist and stuff

Edit: Before anyone wonders... we only took food from legal fishing zones. We ain't no Japanese whale scientists.