During a Caribbean cruise, minding my own business in my cabin, I heard an unusual noise coming from the balcony! I grabbed my camera, and was surprised to see that they were launching a lifeboat right below my balcony. I had a great view of it as the crane extended out, and then a winch lowered the lifeboat down to the water.

In case you're wondering why they were lowering a lifeboat...
No, there wasn't any kind of emergency! This was the Viking Sea, not the Costa Concordia! They were simply going to use the lifeboat as a "tender"... to ferry passengers ashore at a small island where the ship was not able to dock at a pier.

But I bet a lot of folks won't read this description and will post funny comments speculating why the lifeboats were being used! For me, that will be the most entertaining part of the video... reading the comments!

Financial disclosure:
Viking Ocean Cruises invited me aboard the Viking Sea as their guest, at no charge. However, they had no control over the content of this video.