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Woman shares 'dark secrets' about cruise ship pools that might make you think twice about using one

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Published 19:06 9 Jan 2025 GMT

Woman shares 'dark secrets' about cruise ship pools that might make you think twice about using one

It actually made a lot of swimmers feel better about them

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Ah, the ‘secrets’ of cruise ships, something plenty of us are a little oddly obsessed with.

From learning what sneaky different signs mean on doors, to finding out why you should never pay for one particular luxury on board, there could be a whole bible on cruise trivia.

And as you dream about going on one for your next load of travels, a woman has shared the ‘dark secrets’ about the pools on cruise ships that might make you think twice about using one.

University professor Melissa describes herself as having a passion for cruising and often shares YouTube videos of all kinds of cruise content.

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She spoke to one of the people who looks after the pools. (Getty Stock)
She spoke to one of the people who looks after the pools. (Getty Stock)

In one clip, she decided to share the ‘scoop’ on cruise ship pools after chatting the aquatic technician onboard the Carnival Cruise Line ship, Carnival Freedom.

Apparently, he spilled ‘all the details’.

Melissa explained that the pools get emptied out once or sometimes twice a day ‘depending of it’s a sea or a port day’.

“Now, of course, if there's a code brown or a code green, you know what that is, the water gets changed out when that happens,” she added.

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And in case you don’t know what that means, it’s just as it sounds, you know, when the pool has had a foreign object contaminating it shall we say.

But Melissa explained the pool water can only be changed when the boat is out to sea, not when it’s in port.

The pool can only be emptied at certain times. (Getty Stock)
The pool can only be emptied at certain times. (Getty Stock)

“So if someone releases themselves in a cruise ship pool, and you're at port, they have to basically just clean the stuff out of the pool, shut it down, and they can't actually change off the water until they're out to sea,” she said.

“It is pretty much exactly what you think it is - old pool water just gets dumped right there, directly in the ocean, and then the new water is literally ocean water just sucked up directly from the ocean.”

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The YouTuber adds that the new water of course goes through a filtration water and the aquatic technicians make sure it’s balanced ‘with chemicals’. And yep, this means the realisation that the pool water really is salt water to begin with, in case you hadn’t clocked that.

Users say this was actually ‘way better than I expected to hear’ and that it ‘sounds 10 times better than a public pool’.

“This is awesome tbh, she made it sound like it was a bad thing. I love that they keep it clean af,” another echoed.

With one adding: “So basically it’s the cleanest public pool you’ll ever be in.”

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LADbible has contacted Carnival Cruise Line for comment.

Featured Image Credit: TikTok/ProfMelissa

Topics: Cruise Ship, Travel, YouTube, Health, Science, Environment

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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