Posted on 05/15/2008 5:18:21 AM PDT by grjr21
ditto that! Heck, just looking at that balcony on my tv makes me dizzy. Don’t like heights ESPECIALLY over water. One little 3 1/2 foot bar is all that separates you from death. Nope. Not for me!
I wasn’t going to ask :-). Another point is that women, being smaller than men (as a rule) and with a lower body mass, get drunk more quickly if alcohol consumption is equal.
We had a man-overboard, at NIGHT in the Caribbean, and ANOTHER ship found him!!!
1. Because a relative of ours would never do anything stupid.
2. There's no money in it if it's not somebody else's fault.
At least they had a window instead of an interior room.
I think I’d like to stay on land :-).
When there is a serious crime or unexplained death on a cruise ship, how is it determined which police department has jurisdiction?
yep!
a friend of mine just got off the Norweigan Dawn that day. came back from Bermuda. The bus caught fire on the way back to New London.
not a good day for Norweigan Cruise Lines
They do not say how she fell.
The balcony railings are four feet high and she was five feet tall, so it is unlikely that she accidentally fell.
In another account, the boyfriend says that she fell off because "she was horsing around."
If he was in another room, and she was on her room's balcony how would he know if she was horsing around?
As usual, important data points are missing.
Wow, they called man overboard within 4 or 5 minutes of when she fell and they still couldn’t find her. Seems like the search area would be relatively small. Perhaps she drowned right away.
Based on my limited understanding of maritime law:
As long as it's not in port, not within the waters of any foreign country, the FBI has jurisdiction. But the local authorities (in this case, the Bahamian police) where the ship next docks, or wherever it docked last, can be called in to interview witnesses.
The FBI can even investigate crimes on foreign soil that involve U.S. citizens, though they require the permission of the host country. The Khobar Towers bombing is an example, where the Saudi authorities weren't very cooperative.
If elements of the crime occurred before the ship sailed, say in NYC, the authorities there would be involved in the investigation.
He would know what she was doing when he left the cabin, and he was in an adjacent cabin; he would have known if she was leaning over the railing to get the attention of the folks next door.
She could have been killed or knocked unconscious by something on her way down, or by impact with the water. Even with a limited search area, it's difficult to find something as small as a person in something as big as the Atlantic Ocean, especially if the person isn't wearing a life vest or surrounded by flotsam.
If they had a bad relationship, he could have locked her out on the balcony.
propellers
As soon as you step on board, you’ll be offered drinks. There are also bars everywhere you look. Most cruises are pretty boozy.
I don’t blame ‘em. People like to drink on vacation and cruise lines make lots of extra cash on those expensive drinks. I’ve seen people run tabs in the $100-200 range every day just for drinks.
Fixed that!
I would be drunk as soon as I got on the ship! It’s a vacation ya know!
I guess it should be changed to person-overboard. Feminist everywhere have found a new cause.
He could spend years as a suspect without them.
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