funny you should relate that................I sailed home from OZ in 1978 on a Russian cruise liner, and we sailed via Cape Horn. just after leaving New Zealand, they emptied the swimming pools for "safety" reasons as we were heading into bad weather.
On the first night of his trip home to Rio a Brazillian lad that had boarded in AUKLAND decided whilst drunk, to have a "dip" fully clothed in one of the pools, not realising that they had emptied it...........jumped in and broke his leg..............there was no turning back, no air lift off from a Rusky ship in those days......they just splinted him up, sat him on a makeshift "bed" in the bar of his choice and let him sit there for the rest of his trip......pooor sod....mind you, he got all his booze for the next 15 days paid for, lol