Water for shower

[mh1973]

Where does it come from on a cruise ship??

[big_duck]

A mix of hydrogen and oxygen.

[ParrotRob]

Same place all the rest of the fresh water on the ship comes from. Depending on the ship, it may be completely generated on board or may be a mixture of on-board generation and fresh water taken on in port.

[Kethry88]

The ship has a reverse osmosis water system that removes salt and impurities from sea water. This is the water used for everything on the ship, from laundry to showers to cooking and drinking.

 

Reverse osmosis systems are some of the most effective water systems, much better than filtration or chemical systems for purifying water.

[qprrules]

A mix of hydrogen and oxygen.

 

LOL............:D

[kelz66]

A mix of hydrogen and oxygen.

 

The Duck has made Beernuts laugh out loud. :D

[runner15km]

WILL I GET SEA-SICK?

It is highly unlikely. Many passengers anticipate motion sickness and take medication before they even get on board. This isn't recommended. Most cruises are so calm you nearly forget you are at sea. If you do experience motion sickness medication is available in the gift shops or the infirmary on board. Bonine is a popular remedy, or you can try an elastic strap that applies pressure to the pulse point on your wrist. The behind-the-ear patches popular a few years ago were taken off the market for awhile, but they are available once again.

 

If you do get sea-sick I recommend bland, dry foods; a friend of mine swears by apples and crackers. Doctors sometimes recommend eating ginger for a natural aid. Avoid all liquids as they tend to slosh around in your stomach. If you do get sick you may be tempted to go lie down in your cabin, but you might just get sicker. The best place to go is outside in the fresh air, mid-ship, as close to the water as possible. The motion is greater on the upper decks and at the front or rear of the ship. Keep your eyes on the horizon, and don't be embarassed if your nausea gets the best of you, tell your friends you're feeding the fish.

 

WHAT TIME IS THE MIDNIGHT BUFFET?

It sounds funny but the cruise staff gets this question all the time. Well, guess what? The usual time for the midnight buffet on most ships is 11:30. That is if they even have a midnight buffet anymore. Sadly, it is a tradition that has gone buy the wayside. On some ships the buffet stays open until the wee hours. If not go back to your cabin & call room service. It's free, you can't beat that! Today's cruise lines have perfected the art of feeding passengers and food is available 24 hours a day. It is always free and plentiful. Your room steward can supply your room with fresh fruit and will leave a chocolate on your pillow each night after he turns down the bed.

 

WHAT IF I MISS THE SHIP?

Take a picture to help you describe to friends how it feels to see the ship sailing away without you. Seriously, people get left in port all the time and it is your responsibility to be back on time or get yourself to the next port. If time management isn't your strong suit consider taking shore excursions offered by the cruise line. If one of these organized tours is late, they will definitely hold the ship until your tour gets back.

 

DOES THE SHIP GENERATE ITS OWN POWER?

A very common question. No! It actually has a really long extension cord - right! Yes, ships generate their own power and some of them produce enough electricity to light up a small city. The ship's propellers are even driven by electric engines powered by the same massive diesel generators that supply the ship's electrical current to run your hair dryer. Ships also carry several thousand gallons of fresh water in huge holding tanks which they refill when in port. All the showers and sinks contain fresh, potable water but it is highly chlorinated so bottled water is recommended for drinking. In emergencies they can de-salinate sea water by distilling it. The swimming pools and jacuzzis are all filled with sea-water.

 

DO I NEED TO KNOW NAUTICAL TERMS?

You don't need to know them, but you will hear them from time to time so a little familiarity helps. First of all, cruises are taken on ships, not on boats. Boats are smaller and may be used to get you on and off the ship. The captain isn't said to drive the boat or park it, he steers the ship and docks it. If you get a chance to meet the captain don't ask him, "Who's driving the boat?" He's heard it a million times and you will just sound like an amateur. The "bow" (rhymes with wow) is the front of the ship, or as my colleague says, "the pointy end." The rear of the ship is the "stern." Walking towards the bow means you are going "forward," walking towards the stern means you are going "aft." When facing forward, the left side of the ship is known as the "port" side, the right side is "starboard." Simply remember that the words port and left both contain four letters.

 

DO I NEED A PASSPORT?

You may not officially need a passport as of now, but you will soon, so do not delay, just get the passport now and stop worrying about it. They are highly, highly recommended, otherwise you must have proof of United States citizenship in the form of a certified birth certificate (meaning a notorized original certificate, not a copy). Certified birth certificates can be obtained from the records bureau in the capital for the state in which you were born and may be sent overnight if you give them a credit card number to handle shipping.

 

Here are the deadlines for when passports will be required to travel anywhere:

December 31, 2006 - Requirement applied to all air and sea travel to or from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda.

 

December 31, 2007 - Requirement extended to all land border crossings as well as air and sea travel.

 

Passports applications are available at most post offices and can be processed through the Superior Court of the state in which you live and expedited to arrive within five working days. If you can apply in person in one of the key cities in the United States which contain federal passport offices you can expedite a passport to be processed within 24 hours.

 

It is possible to obtain a passport without a birth certificate if you know a documented U.S. citizen who can appear in person to vouch for your citizenship. The National Passport Information Center hotline number is 1-900-225-5674. Plan ahead! These official offices are closed on weekends and legal holidays.

 

While on board as a passenger the cruise line will retain control of your passport even when you are ashore in a foreign port. They do this so local customs officers can clear the entire ship at once. The ship will have your passport, so try to carry another form of picture identification with you in foreign ports.

 

If your passport is from a nation besides the United States it is very important that you check with the consulate for each country you will be visiting. Rules vary depending on which nation issued your passport. We recently watched a lovely friend of ours get turned back at the Athens airport because she had a Jamaican passport and had not secured a visa to enter Greece. She is married to an U.S. Citizen and has a green card, but her Jamaican passport still required a visa. She was not even allowed to enter the airport in Athens, was put on the next plane to London, and eventually flew home to New York. Yes, she missed the cruise and her husband, a magazine writer on assignment, had to go alone.

 

WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO MEET THE OFFICERS AND CRUISE STAFF?

Some of them share tables in the dining room with passengers, some do not. If you are invited to the captain's table for dinner you should feel especially honored as your fellow diners might be movie stars or a magnate about to buy the cruise line. Officers and cruise staff are usually given full access to the ship's public rooms and may be found in the nightclub when off-duty. Entertainers often supervise passenger activities like ping-pong tournaments or trivial pursuit or act as the ship librarian. In their spare time they are known to frequent the fitness center.

 

DOES ROMANCE HAPPEN AT SEA?

It certainly does. Of course nothing is guaranteed but there are many people who find the congenial, care-free atmosphere on board cruise ships to be the perfect catalyst for romantic encounters, whether it is with someone they have just met or a life-long companion. There are single passengers on most cruises, but especially on the cruise lines that cater to younger crowds. Most crew members are single and there are several stories of crew members meeting passengers and falling in love.

[Fun~N~Sun]

Runner...what does this loooooooooooong post have to do with the question the OP asked.......Where does water on the cruise ship come from?

[Fun~N~Sun]

The ship has a reverse osmosis water system that removes salt and impurities from sea water. This is the water used for everything on the ship, from laundry to showers to cooking and drinking.

 

Reverse osmosis systems are some of the most effective water systems, much better than filtration or chemical systems for purifying water.

 

Why don't they put it in the pools and add a little chlorine? Would be MUCH nicer!

[resq602]

it came out of the shower head the last time i took a shower on a cruise!:D

[big_duck]

Why don't they put it in the pools and add a little chlorine? Would be MUCH nicer!

 

They would need equipment with at least 10 times the capacity for starters.

[runner15km]

Runner...what does this loooooooooooong post have to do with the question the OP asked.......Where does water on the cruise ship come from?

 

 

Just anticipating newbie's next question.:)

[kooljim]

Where does it come from on a cruise ship??

One of the great mysteries of the ages, where oh where does it come from?????:rolleyes:

[Stircrzy]

The Duck has made Beernuts laugh out loud. :D

 

The Duck is good at that.

[iamgolden]

Duck, I thought they just strained the stuff flushed down the toilets???

[Fun~N~Sun]

They would need equipment with at least 10 times the capacity for starters.

 

I'm not knocking Carnival so don't anyone bash me I am simply trying to learn something here. I think I have read where some of the other cruise lines have fresh water pools, if that is so how do they do it? If pools are fresh water that has been chlorinated they would not have to be emptied as often either right?

[mikesteg]

They would need equipment with at least 10 times the capacity for starters.

 

 

You think? Seems like the average pax would use maybe 50 gallons a day (showers, toilets and indirect consumption...) which is 100,000 gallons or more. 3 of 4 small pools might be 60,000 gallons (?) but they don't fill them every day (or at least wouldn't need to with chlorinated water). Add to that that they would be using water 'generated' early in the morning when there is about zero usage otherwise.... seems like a winner to me. :D

 

Of course, salt water doesn't bother me and I can actually float in salt water... almost. :rolleyes:

[kelz66]

One of the great mysteries of the ages, where oh where does it come from?????:rolleyes:

 

Just like the thermos....it keeps the hot stuff hot and the cold stuff cold...how do it know? :p

[nycruises]

The pipes to your shower go out the hull of the ship and the water is forced up to your cabin. Oh and hot water is sent over a camp fire on the deck they everyone must take a shift at watching.

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, they make there own with a high tech process of desalinization. Basically they boil the water collect the steam and purify it with filters and reverse osomius (sp?) systems. Then do a chemical check on it and send it out. The ship water is usually cleaner that what you drink out of the tap at home and even some bottled waters. They even treat their own sewage waste on board the ship and clean that back to a point where the US Dept. of Health / CDC say it is safe to drink. Not that they will give that water to you they use that to clean the decks and in the laundry. no they don't cook with it, but they could if they wanted to.

[mh1973]

Geez, I was just asking, I have never cruised before and thought this was a board for questions such as this, sorry for being STUPID!!!

[KBD627]

Runner...what does this loooooooooooong post have to do with the question the OP asked.......Where does water on the cruise ship come from?

 

I know it was long , but the answer was in there:

Ships also carry several thousand gallons of fresh water in huge holding tanks which they refill when in port. All the showers and sinks contain fresh, potable water but it is highly chlorinated so bottled water is recommended for drinking. In emergencies they can de-salinate sea water by distilling it. The swimming pools and jacuzzis are all filled with sea-water.

 

Wonder what the source is since every other post on here says they teat salt water into fresh water and it tastes better then and is more pure than most bottled water:confused: :confused:

 

 

[petro772]

Geez, I was just asking, I have never cruised before and thought this was a board for questions such as this, sorry for being STUPID!!!

 

Don't worry about it. You haven't seen nothin' yet! ;)

[joetrizeo]

Ok, they make there own with a high tech process of desalinization. Basically they boil the water collect the steam and purify it with filters and reverse osomius (sp?) systems. Then do a chemical check on it and send it out.

 

no boiling (distillation), just forced membrane (reverse osmosis)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis

[rufustelestrat]

Where does it come from on a cruise ship??

Dasani

[joetrizeo]

Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) is a reverse osmosis desalination membrane process that has been commercially used since the early 1970s. Its first practical demonstration was done by Sidney Loeb and Srinivasa Sourirajan from UCLA in Coalinga, California. Because no heating or phase changes are needed, energy requirements are low in comparison to other processes of desalination.