| Number of ships at sea: | 41,752 |
| Number of those ships flying the American flag: | 78 |
| Number flying the Liberian flag: | 4,000 |
| Percentage of all Americans who have taken a cruise in their lives: | 60 |
| Annual profits of Carnival Cruise Line, the largest cruise operator in the world: | $1.8 billion |
| Percentage of all seafarers who are Filipino: | 25 |
| Percentage of their salary that overseas Filipino workers are required by their government to send back to the Philippines: | 80 |
| Amount of remittances from Filipino seafarers in 2004: | $1.2 billion |
| Amount of remittances from Filipino seafarers in 2014: | $5.5 billion |
| Year the Philippine Government adopted arbitration into the collective bargaining agreements of its overseas workers: | 1995 |
| Year the Filipino government passed the Seafarers Protection Act, which makes it illegal for anyone to help a ship worker pursue a legal “claim against … employers for the purpose of recovery of monetary claim or benefit, including legal interest, arising from accident, illness or death, in exchange of an amount or fee”: | 2015 |
| Number of times “ambulance chasing” appears in the Philippine Seafarers Protection Act: | 6 |
| Years of prison time one can serve if found guilty of “ambulance chasing”: | 2 |
| Compensation a Filipino seafarer is entitled to for losing a foot above the ankle, according to the contract he or she must sign to work on a ship: | $25,000 |
| Compensation for losing hearing in one ear: | $7,400 |
| Compensation for losing two external ears: | $16,700 |
| Compensation for losing one big toe: | $5,225 |
| Number of Filipinos Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines announced this year they will hire in next five years: | 30,000 |