By the numbers: Facts from the high seas

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