Cruise secrets: Passengers in luck if they find themselves in a cabin next to this person

He opened up on his experiences in new book, Chronicles of a Cruise Ship Worker, and wrote the heavy, incessant schedules may have been to blame.

He wrote: “Eventually, I found ways to deal with sea days but at the time, they were beginning to give me a case of the ship version of cabin fever.

“Crew members who sail aboard ships headed to Hawaii and back or partake in an ocean crossing from New York to England can have many consecutive days at sea in a row, and these crew members can easily develop ship fever.

“Ship fever occurs when you begin to have a difficult time being isolated out in the middle of the ocean, and the only cure is to get off the ship.”

Talking of a slight cure, he added: “I was able to reduce the temperature of my ship fever by getting off the ship and exploring a port, but this was only temporary.”