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Fausto, it seems that crew and security staff have a goodly supply of knives. Do crew and security carry guns or have access to them? Just wondering since terrorists have been known to hijack ships at sea.
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On passenger ships normally nobody carries firearms, I would say that it is SOP within 99.9 per cent of the world cruise ships fleet.
It makes sense, when you consider the amount of unarmed people that we carry and the size of the ship herself; what would we be able to do with two armed security guards when we talk about 500 pax + 330 crew on a ship 560ft long and 12 decks high?
Ships security works more on prevention, like crew pax and visitors screening, baggage scanning and searches and so forth. For that we have metal detectors (archways and portables), scanning machines and sniffers. Bomb searches and stowaway searches are also regularly performed. In port we keep lookouts on the lower decks seaside tp prevent unwanted visits and we secure all the possible openings that we do not need to keep open for operation.
Security guards are equipped with the usual crowd control stuff (sticks, mace, stunners), butthis is mostly in case of bad discipline issues. Knives are kind of kept under control, like the deck guys must leave theirs in the bosun store at the end of the day, the cooks tehy leave theirs in the galley, no flick knives are allowed onboard and so forth.
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It makes sense, when you consider the amount of unarmed people that we carry and the size of the ship herself; what would we be able to do with two armed security guards when we talk about 500 pax + 330 crew on a ship 560ft long and 12 decks high?
Ships security works more on prevention, like crew pax and visitors screening, baggage scanning and searches and so forth. For that we have metal detectors (archways and portables), scanning machines and sniffers. Bomb searches and stowaway searches are also regularly performed. In port we keep lookouts on the lower decks seaside tp prevent unwanted visits and we secure all the possible openings that we do not need to keep open for operation.
Security guards are equipped with the usual crowd control stuff (sticks, mace, stunners), butthis is mostly in case of bad discipline issues. Knives are kind of kept under control, like the deck guys must leave theirs in the bosun store at the end of the day, the cooks tehy leave theirs in the galley, no flick knives are allowed onboard and so forth.
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Thanks for info, Fausto. I've never been aboard a luxury liner and all my time at sea was spent on a warship where guns and knives were a part of everyday life.