Woman who was almost sent to ‘CRUISE prison’ for fighting with a fellow passenger on board a ship reveals what REALLY happens to those who misbehave at sea

A woman who revealed she was almost sent to ‘cruise prison’ for fighting with a fellow passenger has sparked a fierce fascination with what really happens to those who misbehave while at sea.

Theresa Rowley, from Dallas, Texas, recently went viral after admitting she almost got into a fight with another woman during a seven-day Carnival Cruise she took with her mother.

But when she said events could have left her “locked in the belly of the ship,” people wondered if cruise ships really have a place to hold unruly travelers, what it’s like and what you should do. to be sent there.

In a video uploaded to her TikTok account that has been viewed more than 22 million times, Theresa began: “I spent almost three days of my cruise locked in the belly of a ship in what I now know is ‘cruise prison’ is called.’

Theresa Rowley, from Dallas, Texas, recently went viral after admitting she almost got into a fight with another woman during a seven-day Carnival Cruise she took with her mother

But when she said events could have left her “locked in the belly of the ship,” people wondered what cruise ship prisons were really like. The ‘brig’ of Carnival is seen

She told her followers that she and her 67-year-old mother were enjoying a live performance at a bar on the third night of their cruise when a woman sitting next to her “wouldn’t shut up.” .’

“She’s been talking to you this whole time, brother. She’s yelling from across the bar,” she recalled. ‘It was a distraction and so rude.

‘[At one point]a girl asked for a specific ballad and the artist started playing it, and [the lady next to me] says, “Boo. Boring.” She even pretended to fall asleep. She was a real horror.’

A furious Theresa said she made a “passive-aggressive” comment to the woman about her non-stop chatting.

As soon as the artist took a break, she said that the lady started talking bad about her to her friend – and that led to a fierce feud between them.

“My mother told me, ‘Ignore her Theresa, she’s rude,’” she continued. “But one thing about my mother is that she’s not very good at volume control.

“She’s an angel, but she doesn’t know much about sound levels. So this girl heard my mom call her rude, and she turned around and said, “Oh, I think you’re the rude one, b***h.”

“She said this to my 67-year-old mother. Every good thought, every good resolution I ever had left my body and flew off into the ocean.

In September 2022, an attorney who specializes in “suing cruise ships” according to his TikTok bio, named Spencer Aronfeld, put a lid on the topic in a viral video.

“My spine straightened, I jumped off my stool, I looked down at her and said, ‘What did you say?’

“She says, ‘You heard me.’ I said, “Yes, I want to hear you say it again.” She said, “You guys are really disrespectful.”

“I said, ‘That’s so crazy, because I think everyone in this bar knows you were the one who was disrespectful, so say it again.'”

“I said, ‘Let’s go outside.’ Never in my life have I had a physical fight, okay? But I felt at this point like every SoulCycle class, every Barry’s Boot Camp, every SolidCore yoga class I’d taken had prepared me to throw a b***h into the Gulf of Mexico.”

Luckily, Theresa said she didn’t end up getting into a physical altercation with the woman because the lady stopped talking and left shortly after.

But her story left many wondering if the ‘cruise prison’ really existed – and what you would have to do to end up there.

In September 2022, an attorney who specializes in “suing cruise ships” according to his TikTok bio, named Spencer Aronfeld, put a lid on the topic in a viral video.

He added that brigs are “not typical” prison cells with “bars or sliding doors,” but are instead “cabins on lower decks without windows that can be locked from the outside.” The ‘brig’ of Carnival is seen

Spencer explained that if you get in trouble for something less serious, you might be “locked in your” own cabin with a “guard outside” (stock image)

‘Do cruise ships have prisons? Absolutely, they are called brigs and it is where passengers and crew end up if they violate the code of conduct or commit violence against another passenger or crew member,” he shared.

He added that brigs are “not typical” prison cells with “bars or sliding doors,” but are instead “cabins on lower decks without windows that can be locked from the outside.”

“There are minimal items in there: a mattress, some toiletries, and that’s it,” he continued.

“Passengers will remain there until they can disembark and be handed over to authorities at the port.”

Spencer explained that if you get into trouble for something less serious, you might be “locked in your” own cabin with a “guard outside.”

A British-based cruise content creator named Emma Le Teace previously spoke to “a former cruise ship security official,” whose identity was not revealed, about the topic before her blogging.

She explained that the prison cells are only used for “serious incidents” and for people “suspected of breaking the law or behaving dangerously or recklessly.”

On the other hand, if a guest is “drunk and disorderly,” she said, a “cabin arrest” will be imposed.