The claims have been echoed by other cruise ships workers in the past. And for the most part nobody was loyal to anyone,” he told Matt Meltzer. So any time a new girl started working on the ship, the first night at the crew bar was a free-for-all. “I think the ratio of men to women was like 9:1. While guests experience a sun-drenched high-life above decks, Blake describes a dark world of low pay, cramped rooms and rampant sex on the levels below. “THE ships were the most incestuous workplace I’ve ever been a part of.”Ī man known only as “Blake” has revealed the truth about life on the high seas, in a no-holds-barred interview with Thrillist.