IF you have been a guest on a cruise ship, you may have partaken in of their free ice cream parties.
Now, one cruise ship performer has revealed the real reason behind these events - to make space for dead bodies in the freezer.
"If the crew suddenly makes a bunch of ice cream available to the passengers, free ice cream party, it's often because more people have died on the ship than they have room for in the morgue," claimed Dara Starr Tucker in a recent TikTok video.
"I believe they said [the morgue] held about seven people and if more than seven people died on that particular ship, they would have to start moving bodies to the freezer which meant they needed to make room in the freezer.
"So they would have to take out a lot of the ice cream and other frozen goods in order to make room for the other bodies."
Dr Amy White is the director of medical operations for Vikand, which provides medical services for more than 150 ships on 33 cruise lines.
Dr White confirmed Tucker's claims, but pointed out that modern cruise ships now have more facilities to handle such unfortunate situations.
According to research based on 78 ocean and river cruise lines, including Carnival and Royal Caribbean, 623 deaths were recorded between 2000 and 2019, so it's unlikely there will be much free ice cream.
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