Quote Originally Posted by RickyR View Post

Working with the cruise lines, I noticed most of our crew and officers who got together tended to be similar in age, but with all mixes of nationalities.

Of course they do.
In such small environment they would not like to be seen dead with somebody a lot older than themselves.
Unless it is a female passenger with a chance to leave a sizeable tip at the end of the cruise...

Officers and crew, most of it, is all down to the image they project to the other crew members.

And don't say I am talking outa my , coz I spent more years at sea than you had hot dinners....