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They’re Just Floating Bathrooms

BEYOND GROSS

You think oozing sewage is gross? Try visiting the crew’s quarters on your next cruise vacation. It’s just one big, floating backed-up toilet, writes Brian David Bruns.

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Paul McConnell/U.S. Coast Guard, via AP,Lt. Cmdr. Paul McConnell

Gross things are common on cruise ships. No, not the gastronomic atrocities occurring nonstop at the buffets—horrifying as that may be to quantify—but what lies below the waterline.

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