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Do you feel safe on a cruise?

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With that ferry in BC catching on fire and now the Star Princess on fire do you feel safe on cruises?

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I have been on about a dozen cruises and always feel safe on ship. The very first thing that the cruise lines do when you board is have a mandatory safety drill. They call the roll so to speak and EVERYONE must be present. You are instructed to go to your cabin and get your life vest and report to the lifeboat station for your cabin. If they find that you did not come to the drill, they will have you take the drill seperately.

Many times when ships get to ports the ship has to use a lifeboat to get people to shore. The lifeboat hold about 100 people and are safe.

Everyone who gets on a ship has to provide positive identification, almost always a passport. When you leave the ship you must scan your ID keycard at teh security station so that they know that you have left the ship. When you come back to the ship you must scan your keycard again so they know you have returned.

NoONE gets on ship who is not supposed to be there. I feel 100% safe all of the time.

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i hate boats, even the big ones! i fell of a boat when i was really small, and almost drowned.so i hate boats, i will never get on one again!! they also don't have many safety features.
I wonder if they would really have enough life rafts foreveryone and would people panic so bad they would fight and kill each other so I guess I would not feel safe on any cruise all I would think about would be TITANIC
yes but i barely get on boats
no look what happened to the titanic........ i would never go on the boat becauseof all the things that have been happpening latley.
Everyone should feel safe.

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as a side note-the ferry in B.C. didn't catch fire it hit a rock and sprung a leak.

EDIT-to the person below me, they dont know if the people missing were ever on the ship to begin with. The ferry wasn't in the inside passage it was in Vancouver.
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