Question

What happens after you flush a toilet on a cruise ship?

Answer 1

After you flush a toilet on a cruise ship the poop and pee and sewage in the toilet goes into a sewage tank below the toilet in the bowels of the cruise ship.

Then the sewage goes into a sewage treatment device that treats the sewage onboard the cruise ship and then the sewage eventually gets dumped into the ocean after it's been treated.

Cruise ship toilets don't dump directly into the ocean.

When you flush the toilet on a cruise ship the sewage does not go directly into the ocean but instead when you flush the toilet the sewage goes into a sewage tank and then goes through a sewage treatment facility on board the cruise ship.

The sewage on a cruise ship gets treated first and then the sewage gets dumped into the ocean.

Sewage can be dumped into the ocean from cruise ships but the sewage on the cruise ships must be treated before the sewage is allowed to be dumped into the ocean unless they are more than 3 miles off U.S. Shores.

U.S. law allows cruise ships to dump raw sewage in the ocean once a ship is more than three miles off U.S. shores.

Ships can dump treated sewage anywhere in the ocean except in Alaskan waters, where companies must comply with higher state standards.

However most ships treat the raw sewage all the time before dumping the sewage anywhere into the ocean.

Just like RV's cruise ships have holding tanks for the sewage and it's not directly piped into the ocean.

Cruise Ships also treat water from the ocean to use onboard the cruise ship for showers and other water needs.

Answer 2

Cruise ships do not put laxatives in food as that would cause legal action and bad press.

Some people may get sick from being on a cruise ship or from eating foods that may have been bad but it's rare for the food to cause food poisoning on a cruise ship.

Some people also become sick to their stomach from the cruise ship itself being on the water and they may think it's from the food they've eaten.

Organisms such as salmonella, shigella and E. coli have caused outbreaks of diarrhea on ships, and fall into the grab-bag category of "traveler's diarrhea."

In a recent cluster of gastrointestinal illnesses on a cruise ship sailing from Tenerife to the U.S., salmonella was identified as the likely culprit.

In the U.S., the risk of getting norovirus each year is about 1 in 15; a cruise passenger has about a 1 in 5,500 risk of getting laboratory-confirmed norovirus during a shipboard outbreak.

Food poisoning is common on cruise ships because of the close proximity and buffet-style dining on cruise ships are sometimes a perfect recipe for foodborne illness from both bacterial and viral pathogens to spread much more quickly than we typically see at home.