Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, and has a population of 245,000.  Shaped like an upside down Maui, each side formed by separate volcanoes.  Beaches are black.  The philosophy is  not to worry .  Pape'ete is the capital, with an urban population of 136,771, or 27,000, depending on which portion.  Called a sleepy town.  I can one up that by saying town at sleep, for I made a walking tour, and virtually everything was closed at 2:30PM on a Saturday.    Close by is Faa'a International Airport. Le Marche is the town marketplace.  Of course it was closed when I walked by.  But that is because it opened from 5:30AM to 1PM.  A worthy stop would be the Botanical Garden/Gauguin Museum. Britisher Samuel Wallis discovered Tahiti in 1767.  Of course Captain Cook also landed, two years later. Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin, a French Post-Impressionist artist, spent the final decade of his life in French Polynesia, leaving behind his wife ( photo with wife Mette in Copenhagen ) a

According to research compiled by the Dasit Law Firm ,   cruise ships have the lowest rate of deaths per billion passenger miles with 0.08 . Rail travel  11.9 Cars  3.3 Commercial air travel  0.8. In other words, cruise travel is 10 time safer than air travel! In a span of a decade between 2002 and 2013, 356 people were killed on cruise ships, with 32 of them aboard the Costa Concordia, which sank.  Of course there are injuries, and falling is the most common.  But that study was made in 2016 BEFORE covid. We are all familiar with the  Diamond Princess outbreak  early in 2020, which was the most prominent early warning of something terrible coming. 3711 passengers and crew. 712 infections:  19%. 14 deaths:  0.4%. It's difficult to compare this number with the above statistics, because the latter is per billion passenger miles.  In general: It is reported that there is a rough average of 200 deaths on cruise ships/year.  For roughly 30 million passengers, that is one death for every