Mindy Jordan
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About 13 million people, 10.6 million of them Americans, went on a cruise last year, according to an industry expert.
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Carver's group advocates for independent investigators, similar to sky marshals on airplanes, to travel on every cruise ship, among other measures.
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The newer ships, which can handle as many as 7,000 passengers, have even more extensive safeguards to prevent accidents, and elaborate security and surveillance to prevent crime, Brown said. The Norwegian Dawn, on which Jordan was a guest, has cameras in its interior and exterior that captured Jordan's travels onboard.
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"You really have to make an effort to fall overboard," Brown said. "Most of the time when people go overboard, they've done something they shouldn't have."
I so want to be a Cruise Ship investigator.
If about 1 in 650000 fall of a ship and I'm on a ship that carries 7000 , working 50 weeks a year ( gotta take two weeks for vacation) then an investigator will have to work about once every other year and more than likely will spend an entire career without having to come to a conclusion other that the person who went overboard was a drunken idiot
Who cares if people opt to be human chum? I don’t. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Cruise Ship = Booze Barge
The George Smith case is interesting because both he and his wife were drunk as skunks the night he disappeared. Mrs. Skunk was so intoxicated, she passed out in a hallway outside of a crewman’s cabin and had to be taken back to her room in a wheelchair. The next morning, instead of being a tad bit curious about hubby’s absence (they were on their honeymoon), she went to a spa to freshen up. She still got a million bucks, though.
Jamaica is an especially bad place to let your guard down.
Good work if you can get it. My best friend’s girlfriend in college was assaulted on a cruise with her family, she got drunk and then came-to with a crewman on top of her finishing the act.
End of the day they didn’t even fire the guy, he said it was consensual and there wasn’t a darn thing anyone could do about it.
She learned a very hard lesson I guess. He was from the far east somewhere, Thailand I believe, and she ended up taking HIV tests for about a year because of it.
Some people think that a cruise is an excuse to overeat, get drunk, dance and party all night, and “have sex”. Those actions don’t lead to safe trips.
Call it 100 people in 8 years.
In those 8 years, we had 8x13M = 101 million passengers.
That's one in a million.
One would almost think that they were trying to sensationalize the issue.
I live in a cruise ship destination here in Alaska. several time a year during the cruise season, the whole town seems to get the runs. - Yuck!
