hop in a pool suspended five stories above another pool on the deck of a ship that looks like the result of a mad scientist hybridizing the genes of an airport duty free terminal, a private athletic club, a five-over-one and the Evergreen Ever Given (with just a splash of Six Flags for flavor)
I remember reading that cruise ships still don't have enough lifeboats for all passengers and I can't wrap my head around how that's legal.
Legally all cruise ships need to carry enough lifeboats and life rafts for 125% of the ship's maximum capacity. Life rafts are inflatable and are stowed away, and can only be deployed once, whereas lifeboats are rigid and can be (and must be) deployed every now and again as part of evacuation drills.
Maritime law is super sketchy. It's the Wild West out on the seas.
Take to the sea!
And under
They have enough boats to evacuate the boat before it would sink. Well, that is the useual idea. Boats tend to follow shipping lanes and they rarely are that far from rescue. If the boat sinks like a rock you won't have time to get to lifeboats. If it starts sinking slowly you don't need to work that hard to putter people over to a rescue vessel in a timely fashion. It just doesn't make intuitive sense to us because the sea is a hostile environment in which we really don't belong.