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Unnamed woman - Carnival Valor
- Shocking cell phone footage from the Carnival Valor cruise ship captured the final frantic moments of a 32-year-old woman's life. She was on a five-day cruise from New Orleans to Mexico with her husband when the incident occurred. Reports say the video was captured just after some kind of incident in the hot tub. It shows the woman being restrained by three security guards by the pool area of the ship. She is struggling to break free and is heard shouting the name "Alicia." The guards hold her arms behind her back and handcuff her before leading her up the stairs and away from the pool. According to witnesses, she broke free from the guards a few minutes later and proceeded to jump off the tenth floor of the ship into the ocean. Rescue attempts began immediately but it's believed that the woman hit her head on the way down and immediately disappeared beneath the water's surface. The coast guard searched 2,514 square miles (6,511 square kilometers) for 14 hours before suspending their search.
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Unnamed woman - Carnival Miracle
- In the early hours of December 11, passengers of the Carnival Miracle cruise ship, on a three-day voyage from Long Beach Cruise Terminal to Ensenada, were alerted that someone had fallen overboard. After over 31 hours of searching, the Coast Guard halted their efforts to find the woman. According to CBS Los Angeles, many passengers suspect the incident occurred from foul play, after the woman fell from the fifth-floor balcony of her stateroom. “Someone has lost their life, whether it was done by accident or by foul play I don’t know,” said Daniel Miranda, a Northern California firefighter paramedic on board the ship. “There’s some high suspicion of foul play.” He estimated around 1,100 were on board at the time of the incident.
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Four people in one month - Between November 22 and December 16, 2018, four people went missing on cruise ships.
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Luke Renner
- Luke Renner, a 22-year-old autistic passenger aboard the Carnival Fantasy, is believed to have gone overboard on December 16, 2018. The Mexican navy put out a search for him.
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Thomas McElhany - Thomas McElhany, 26, went overboard near the Florida Keys on the Carnival Victory ship on December 14, 2018. His body wasn't recovered, and Carnival didn't respond to the Miami Herald's questioning on whether the ship had the overboard detection technology it was legally required to have.
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Dutch woman
- A Dutch woman, who isn't being named, went overboard the MSC Preziosa near Martinique on December 8, 2018, and hasn't been found. Crew members didn't know she'd gone overboard until docking.
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Crew member - A crew member aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Adventure is presumed to have gone overboard on November 22, 2018 and still hasn't been found. He also hasn't been named, but we know he's 27.
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Over 200
- Since 2000, over 200 people have gone missing from cruise ships according to Dr. Ross Klein, author of 'Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Ship Industry.'
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An epidemic - Cruise ship law firms, victims associations, and online news bulletins have been set up in response to the under-the-radar- epidemic. But as you'll see in the next slides, the alarms have been going off for years.
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Amy Lynn Bradley
- Amy Lynn Bradley, her parents, and her brother boarded the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas on March 21, 1998. She went missing somewhere between 5:15 am and 6 am, after she was seen sleeping by her father.
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Decades gone by - She's been missing for over 20 years. Shockingly, during her parents' appearance on the 'Dr. Phil' show, a photo suggested she had been sold into forced prostitution.
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Christopher Caldwell - On July 23, 2004, Christopher Caldwell and his fiancée were gambling at the casino on a Carnival Cruise ship to Mexico when she went to bed and he stayed playing. He never returned to their room, and has never been found since.
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Overboard? - He is believed to have fallen overboard while intoxicated, though no surveillance video of that exists.
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Elizabeth Kay Galeana
- Last seen aboard the Voyager of the Seas on July 25, 2006, Elizabeth Kay Galeana went missing while on a cruise in the Mediterranean. Italian police and the FBI searched the ship. The family later released a statement saying that Elizabeth Kay Galeana was dead, though no body had been found, and no foul play was suspected.
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Merrian Carver
- Merrian Carver disappeared aboard the Celebrity Cruises' Mercury on August 28, 2004. According to family statement account published online, a crew member informed his superior the day she went missing, and was told to go back to work.
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Skeleton
- Her father started the International Cruise Victims Association following an unsuccessful investigation that began almost a month after the disappearance. Though Canadian authorities believed they may have found her skeleton, exactly what happened to her is still a mystery.
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Annette Mizener
- Annette Mizener was with her parents, daughter, and husband on the final day of her nine-day Mexican Riviera trip aboard Carnival Cruise's The Pride when she disappeared on December 4, 2004.
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Evidence? - Her husband alleges in an online post that the Carnival Cruise refused to supply evidence, and that one crew member repeatedly lied to the FBI.
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Hue Pham and Hue Tran
- The couple were on Carnival Cruise's Destiny ship in between Barbados and Aruba when they disappeared on May 12, 2005.
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Coast guard - According to their children, who bought the cruise for them as a gift, the ship took considerable time to report the incident to the American and Dutch coast guards. They suspect the company is withholding information. There has been no trace of Hue Pham and Hue Tran since their disappearance.
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George Allen Smith IV
- In July of 2005, George Allen Smith IV was aboard the MS Brilliance of the Seas for his honeymoon. It was a cruise along the Mediterranean and should've meant perfection. Instead, he disappeared the night of July 5 and blood was found in his cabin.
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Russian mafia - CBS News reported that the FBI's Russian mafia unit was investigating the disappearance.
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Tammy Grogan
- Tammy Grogan, her son, mother, and two friends boarded Carnival Cruise's Imagination from Key West, Florida to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico in September of 2006. She was last seen on the beach at Playa Del Carmen, and was later reported as having gone overboard by the cruise ship. But upon returning home, her son allegedly found their home ransacked and robbed. Grogan's body was never found, and her son was interviewed by police about foul play.
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Rebecca Coriam
- Rebecca Coriam was a crew member on the Disney Wonder cruise ship and was last seen on security camera footage having a heated early morning conversation.
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A cover-up? - She hasn't been seen since March 22, 2011, when the ship was on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Her parents have accused Disney Cruise Line of a cover-up.
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John Halford
- John Halford was wrapping up a six-day trip aboard Thomson Cruise's Spirit when he vanished the night before the vessel's final stop. He was last seen on April 6, 2011.
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Another overboard case? - The Spirit docked at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. While police there investigated, they reported they had found nothing. Halford is presumed to have fallen overboard, though there's no evidence of that.
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A’riel Brianna Marion
- Shortly after departing from Florida on its journey to the Bahamas, the Allure of the Seas crew reported that something had gone overboard, this on September 16, 2012. Unable to find anything, the ship continued for an hour until realizing A’riel Brianna Marion had gone overboard. Her body was never found and though the investigation ruled that she took her own life, her friends dispute that as a possibility.
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Fariba Amani
- Fariba Amani was last seen aboard the Bahamas Celebration cruise ship between the Bahamas and Florida on February 29, 2012.
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Boyfriend - Her boyfriend said he last saw her in the gift shop at 1 am. The blog The True Crime Files argues the boyfriend could have been involved in her disappearance.
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Luis Felipe Del Rosario Perez
- Passenger Luis Felipe Del Rosario Perez was last seen by the captain of the MV Zenith on December 27, 2016. No one knows if he vanished on shore or went overboard. He hasn't been seen or heard from since.
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Unnamed woman - Carnival Valor
- Shocking cell phone footage from the Carnival Valor cruise ship captured the final frantic moments of a 32-year-old woman's life. She was on a five-day cruise from New Orleans to Mexico with her husband when the incident occurred. Reports say the video was captured just after some kind of incident in the hot tub. It shows the woman being restrained by three security guards by the pool area of the ship. She is struggling to break free and is heard shouting the name "Alicia." The guards hold her arms behind her back and handcuff her before leading her up the stairs and away from the pool. According to witnesses, she broke free from the guards a few minutes later and proceeded to jump off the tenth floor of the ship into the ocean. Rescue attempts began immediately but it's believed that the woman hit her head on the way down and immediately disappeared beneath the water's surface. The coast guard searched 2,514 square miles (6,511 square kilometers) for 14 hours before suspending their search.
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Unnamed woman - Carnival Miracle
- In the early hours of December 11, passengers of the Carnival Miracle cruise ship, on a three-day voyage from Long Beach Cruise Terminal to Ensenada, were alerted that someone had fallen overboard. After over 31 hours of searching, the Coast Guard halted their efforts to find the woman. According to CBS Los Angeles, many passengers suspect the incident occurred from foul play, after the woman fell from the fifth-floor balcony of her stateroom. “Someone has lost their life, whether it was done by accident or by foul play I don’t know,” said Daniel Miranda, a Northern California firefighter paramedic on board the ship. “There’s some high suspicion of foul play.” He estimated around 1,100 were on board at the time of the incident.
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Four people in one month - Between November 22 and December 16, 2018, four people went missing on cruise ships.
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Luke Renner
- Luke Renner, a 22-year-old autistic passenger aboard the Carnival Fantasy, is believed to have gone overboard on December 16, 2018. The Mexican navy put out a search for him.
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Thomas McElhany - Thomas McElhany, 26, went overboard near the Florida Keys on the Carnival Victory ship on December 14, 2018. His body wasn't recovered, and Carnival didn't respond to the Miami Herald's questioning on whether the ship had the overboard detection technology it was legally required to have.
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Dutch woman
- A Dutch woman, who isn't being named, went overboard the MSC Preziosa near Martinique on December 8, 2018, and hasn't been found. Crew members didn't know she'd gone overboard until docking.
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Crew member - A crew member aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Adventure is presumed to have gone overboard on November 22, 2018 and still hasn't been found. He also hasn't been named, but we know he's 27.
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Over 200
- Since 2000, over 200 people have gone missing from cruise ships according to Dr. Ross Klein, author of 'Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Ship Industry.'
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An epidemic - Cruise ship law firms, victims associations, and online news bulletins have been set up in response to the under-the-radar- epidemic. But as you'll see in the next slides, the alarms have been going off for years.
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Amy Lynn Bradley
- Amy Lynn Bradley, her parents, and her brother boarded the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas on March 21, 1998. She went missing somewhere between 5:15 am and 6 am, after she was seen sleeping by her father.
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Decades gone by - She's been missing for over 20 years. Shockingly, during her parents' appearance on the 'Dr. Phil' show, a photo suggested she had been sold into forced prostitution.
© Reuters
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Christopher Caldwell - On July 23, 2004, Christopher Caldwell and his fiancée were gambling at the casino on a Carnival Cruise ship to Mexico when she went to bed and he stayed playing. He never returned to their room, and has never been found since.
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Overboard? - He is believed to have fallen overboard while intoxicated, though no surveillance video of that exists.
© Reuters
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Elizabeth Kay Galeana
- Last seen aboard the Voyager of the Seas on July 25, 2006, Elizabeth Kay Galeana went missing while on a cruise in the Mediterranean. Italian police and the FBI searched the ship. The family later released a statement saying that Elizabeth Kay Galeana was dead, though no body had been found, and no foul play was suspected.
© Reuters
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Merrian Carver
- Merrian Carver disappeared aboard the Celebrity Cruises' Mercury on August 28, 2004. According to family statement account published online, a crew member informed his superior the day she went missing, and was told to go back to work.
© Reuters
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Skeleton
- Her father started the International Cruise Victims Association following an unsuccessful investigation that began almost a month after the disappearance. Though Canadian authorities believed they may have found her skeleton, exactly what happened to her is still a mystery.
© Reuters
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Annette Mizener
- Annette Mizener was with her parents, daughter, and husband on the final day of her nine-day Mexican Riviera trip aboard Carnival Cruise's The Pride when she disappeared on December 4, 2004.
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Evidence? - Her husband alleges in an online post that the Carnival Cruise refused to supply evidence, and that one crew member repeatedly lied to the FBI.
© Reuters
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Hue Pham and Hue Tran
- The couple were on Carnival Cruise's Destiny ship in between Barbados and Aruba when they disappeared on May 12, 2005.
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Coast guard - According to their children, who bought the cruise for them as a gift, the ship took considerable time to report the incident to the American and Dutch coast guards. They suspect the company is withholding information. There has been no trace of Hue Pham and Hue Tran since their disappearance.
© Reuters
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George Allen Smith IV
- In July of 2005, George Allen Smith IV was aboard the MS Brilliance of the Seas for his honeymoon. It was a cruise along the Mediterranean and should've meant perfection. Instead, he disappeared the night of July 5 and blood was found in his cabin.
© Reuters
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Russian mafia - CBS News reported that the FBI's Russian mafia unit was investigating the disappearance.
© Reuters
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Tammy Grogan
- Tammy Grogan, her son, mother, and two friends boarded Carnival Cruise's Imagination from Key West, Florida to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico in September of 2006. She was last seen on the beach at Playa Del Carmen, and was later reported as having gone overboard by the cruise ship. But upon returning home, her son allegedly found their home ransacked and robbed. Grogan's body was never found, and her son was interviewed by police about foul play.
© Reuters
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Rebecca Coriam
- Rebecca Coriam was a crew member on the Disney Wonder cruise ship and was last seen on security camera footage having a heated early morning conversation.
© Reuters
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A cover-up? - She hasn't been seen since March 22, 2011, when the ship was on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Her parents have accused Disney Cruise Line of a cover-up.
© Reuters
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John Halford
- John Halford was wrapping up a six-day trip aboard Thomson Cruise's Spirit when he vanished the night before the vessel's final stop. He was last seen on April 6, 2011.
© Reuters
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Another overboard case? - The Spirit docked at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. While police there investigated, they reported they had found nothing. Halford is presumed to have fallen overboard, though there's no evidence of that.
© Reuters
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A’riel Brianna Marion
- Shortly after departing from Florida on its journey to the Bahamas, the Allure of the Seas crew reported that something had gone overboard, this on September 16, 2012. Unable to find anything, the ship continued for an hour until realizing A’riel Brianna Marion had gone overboard. Her body was never found and though the investigation ruled that she took her own life, her friends dispute that as a possibility.
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Fariba Amani
- Fariba Amani was last seen aboard the Bahamas Celebration cruise ship between the Bahamas and Florida on February 29, 2012.
© Reuters
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Boyfriend - Her boyfriend said he last saw her in the gift shop at 1 am. The blog The True Crime Files argues the boyfriend could have been involved in her disappearance.
© Reuters
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Luis Felipe Del Rosario Perez
- Passenger Luis Felipe Del Rosario Perez was last seen by the captain of the MV Zenith on December 27, 2016. No one knows if he vanished on shore or went overboard. He hasn't been seen or heard from since.
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Mysterious and unsolved disappearances of cruise ship passengers
It happens more often than you might think
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Cruise ships regularly lose passengers, even crew members, and continue on their trip unless ordered to stop by the local coast guard. But often the coast guard won't be notified until hours after the person has been reported missing. Think about it this way: cruise ships are full of thousands of people, many of whom are intoxicated, and no police are anywhere to be found. While security exists, they answer to the cruise ship company, which is focused on maximizing profits.
Have a look at some of the stories behind how people went missing on cruise ships and were never to be found again.
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