[Hat-Trick]

From the bottom of the article, which barely qualifies as journalism, describing a 2nd/related incident:

In February, a 32-year-old female passenger on the Valor fell into the water, about 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Woman Missing After Falling from Carnival Cruise Ship Off the Coast of Mexico Passengers at the time had reported that she had hit the side of the boat before falling in the water. The Coast Guard later called off the search for the woman. The incident occurred as the cruise ship was on its way back to New Orleans following a five-day trip to Mexico, according to Carnival.

As a member in good standing from Uncle Sam's Canoe Group, let me just say that the open water gulfs and oceans of our planet do not suffer fools. Why anyone would pay to get underway with 3 or 4 thousand of them defies me.

[V_TWIN]

“Why anyone would pay to get underway with 3 or 4 thousand of them defies me”

Have you ever taken a cruise?

If not I understand why you would say that.

Cruising is one of the better bangs for the buck you can get in a vacation........as long as you can keep from falling off the darn thing. 😏

[SamAdams76]

I have had nothing but great experiences with cruise ships. It is the one vacation experience where you don't have to lift a finger. You leave your deck chair for a swim and come back to a fresh towel. You eat a banana in your cabin and it suddenly reappears in the fruit bowl upon your return. Food and drink anytime you want it. All of that for a pretty reasonable price.

There may be 3,000 other people on board but you hardly notice them. Probably because a typical cruise ship will have some 15 decks, each of them massive. You will never actually see the majority of the other passengers (or crew members) you sail with on a given cruise.

As for safety, when was the last time since the Titanic or wartime that a pleasure cruise ship went to the bottom with massive loss of life?