But it seems there's a surplus of cruisers out there who don't share my sentiments. This year alone, the industry trade group Cruise Lines International Association projects a 9 percent growth in passengers. Let's start with the sexual assaults on Carnival. You'd have to be awfully naive to be outraged by the allegations. Honestly, I'm astonished that there haven't been more complaints, given all of those passengers lured by the romance of the seas.
People drink too much.
They don't sleep. They err on the side of too much fun. Well, when things go wrong at sea, ships go down. Now during the last big disaster, the sinking of the Sun Vista, there were no fatalities. Viruses happen on land, too, wherever you put lots of people together in a confined space.