Have you ever thought about what would happen if you missed your ship in one of your ports? This happened to me and 2 other people I was with, when we were docked in Cozumel, Mexico. All three of us forgot to change our watches to ship board time, so we arrived back to the pier at what we thought was 1 hour early, only to see that our ship was moving away from the pier.
The cruise line rep at the pier got us on the harbor masters small boat. On this small vessel, we stood on the roof of the boat, as the ship was pulling away from the pier, with the small boat pulled up alongside of the ship and we literary jumped into one of the large side doors of the ship, after a rope had been tied around our waists and life vests. All three of us jumped from the top of the harbor masters small boat into the cruise ship – while both were moving. Imagine the waves the large ship was making, so the small ship was bobbing up and down on those.
All the while it would seem the entire ships passengers were watching us from their balconies and from the top decks of the ship. Everywhere we went for the rest of the cruise we kept hearing people talk about what they had witnessed.
Lesson learned? ALWAYS follow ship board time!
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