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 I spent about one and half years of my life when I was 23-25 years old working on an old cruise ship named the S/S Seabreeze, operated by the now gone Dolphin Cruise Lines. 

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Now what made this ship different than other ship I worked on, was that this ship was built in 1958, which means that when you were on board, you were pretty much cut off from the rest of the world. Of course back around 1994, ships did not have internet, but some had satellite TV. This ship only had a 4 mini-page news paper that the radio officer received every day of news from the outside world.

Ok, now on with the story. So we were doing our normal Eastern Caribbean cruise (going to Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and St. Maarten) and were on our way back to Miami from our last port of call, which means we were on the Atlantic side of Puerto Rico and Cuba.

I was getting ready to go to dinner in the officers mess, when all of a sudden, the power went out. Now I had been at sea for about 4 years by this time, and I have gone through power outages before. The emergency lighting came on, and I finished getting into my tuxedo and headed out to see how everyone was handling the power outage.

The passengers and crew were taking it in stride and assuming the power would come back on any minute (as it usually does after too many hairdryers are going around the ship as the women get ready for dinner and the ships power can't handle it).

After about an hour we learned that the ships boiler (as I said, this was an old ship, hence the S/S in front of the name of the sihp that stands for "Steam Ship", just like the Titanic was a steam ship, hmmmmm). It was time for second seating dinner, and by the way, it was formal night and all the guests were dressed up in their Sunday best. With no power, the best the galley (kitchen), could do was sandwiches, oh the passengers loved that.

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