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Man overboard — again!

October 15, 2006

Another cruise ship passenger has gone missing, this time from a NCL ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles.

A Los Angeles TV station reported that a woman fell or jumped off the Norwegian Star in Mexican waters as it headed toward Los Angeles. However, she wasn’t reported missing until the vessel docked in the United States, according to the FBI.

For those of you keeping track of this nonsense, there have been at least three high-profile “man overboard” cases in the last three months. Earlier this month, a passenger went over the rails on Carnival’s Conquest. This summer, another passenger, Tammy Grogan fell overboard.

Passengers have plenty of ideas on how to keep people from falling off ships.

Isn’t it time the cruise lines did something?

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2 comments

  • Vivien

    Actually, all I would like the cruise industry to do is make a thorough and complete report as soon as it is made aware of situations such as these. Other than that, though it sounds terrible, the percentage of people going overboard on cruises has to be minuscule. Some of these cruise ships sail two times a week and hold thousands of passengers per cruise.

  • Jill Miller

    Chris,

    I don’t think the cruise lines are responsible for people falling off their ships, and you don’t either. That was just a provocative line to get your readers to reply, and it worked.

    We cruise two to three times a year (39 cruises and counting) and “man overboard!” is something we always discuss with our dinner mates. During our conversations we’ve agreed that unless you are drunk and dancing on a table right beside the railing, or having sex on the railing there isn’t an easy or possible way to fall off todays cruise ships.

    Jill Miller

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