Some codes you might hear on a cruise ship, or not, hopefully ….
Our fav code is Winnie – Operation Winnie. It basically means clean the poo in the children’s pool – allegedly from the Disney Cruise Line. There is no confirmation of this.
CODE ALPHA is a medical emergency which can end up in an expensive airlift away from the ship.
30 – 30 – Clean up required (Or PVI see below or a combination of both)
Alpha – a medical emergency
Bravo – is a fire emergency
Bravo Bravo Bravo – man overboard (some suggest Oscar is used) – the side or rear of the ship may follow.
Bright Star – death or medical emergency
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie – security threat.
Code Adam – missing child (named after Adam Walsh)
Cold Alpha or Alpha Team – medical emergency (detail will follow with teams required)
Code Baby Ruth – faeces in the baby pool
Code Bravo – fire (place would follow)
Code Delta – Is a big one – damage to the ship – and might have detail to follow and teams called.
Code Orange – Colours are used for illness outbreak – so, orange is early stages of norovirus infection – (There may be following orders like close pools or buffet – see red below)
Code Oscar – man overboard
Code Papa – pollution (oil spill, etc)
Code Red – illness has broken out, normally norovirus
Code Yellow – is a lesser illness alert.
Code Sierra – medical emergency needing a stretcher
Code Winnie – faeces in the pool (Disney)
Echo – the ship is drifting, often caused by strong winds
Fallen Star – death
Kilo – all personnel to report to their emergency posts
Mr Mob – some use to indicate a passenger or crew member has fallen overboard
Operation Bright Star – a medical emergency
Operation Rising Star – a passenger has died onboard
Oscar – is a reference to someone falling overboard
Papa – oil spill or pollution
Priority 1 – fire (Cunard)
Priority 2 – the ship is taking in water
PVI – public vomiting incident
Red Parties – Potential fire onboard
Other codes and terms used at sea can be found in this book. Click picture for information.You may have seen the author on a ship giving an after-dinner speech or a lecture, his page is here. Stuart St Paul – click here The crime novels are a whole cruise in a fast-paced film-like crime novel. You may not have been to the ports in the novels, you certainly won’t have been to the parts of the ship they use. All the cruise crime novels will make you feel like you are in the adventure and on the cruise of the ship and are port and ship accurate. We often use the related Doris Visits port guide and research.
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