This evening Dateline NBC will air what it is calling an "update" on the story of missing cruise passenger George Smith who disappeared under suspicious circumstances during his honeymoon cruise aboard Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas cruise ship in the summer of 2005.
I am glad to see that Mr. Smith’s case is receiving additional attention.
This evening we received inquiries for information whether there was a "man overboard" from Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas cruise ship.
The last time we received such direct inquiries was last Sunday when we received emails asking us whether a crew member went overboard from the Celebrity Summit cruise ship. We did not have
On Sunday we received emails inquiring about a Celebrity crewmember who went overboard from the Summit cruise ship. The Summit was sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it is currently based, to Barbados when the cruise employee disappeared. At the time we had no information.
Today the U.S. Coast Guard issued a statement that the missing crewmember is a Filipino
When I think of Disney Cruise Lines these days, the popular saying "the cover up is always worse that the crime" comes to mind.
I’m sure that I am not the only one who thinks that. Disney Cruise Lines’s conduct over the last nine months after the unexplained disappearance of Disney youth counselor, Rebecca Coriam, has a number of
Cruise expert Professor Ross Klein reports that a NCL passenger went overboard from Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Sun shortly after the cruise ship pulled out of the Falmouth shipping pier in Jamaica late Wednesday.
Professor Klein has the most complete list of passenger overboards over the course of the last ten years.
Professor Klein’s website refers to an
Today the case of missing Disney Cruise Line youth counselor Rebecca Coriam is again in the news as a MP from her hometown of Cheshire England spoke before the House of Commons.
You will recall that last March, Ms. Coriam "disappeared" from the Disney Wonder as the cruise ship was sailing a Los Angeles –
While the P & O Cruises Ventura cruise ship sailed from Southampton to the Caribbean, a passenger went overboard.
Falling into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean at night should be the beginning and the end of the story. But this passenger overboard story is different from the many other cases we have discussed before.
The Mail Online newspaper in the
The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera contains an interesting update today on the mysterious disappearance of a young Italian chef from a Princess Cruises cruise ship in November 2009.
The story involves Angelo Faliva, a chef from Cremona Italy who was employed by Princess Cruises aboard the Coral Princess. Mr. Faliva was last seen working in the Sabatini’s restaurant on November 25, 2009.
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CBC News Canada is reporting that a 75 year-old passenger from the Holland America Line MS Maasdam was reported missing by his wife shortly after 8 AM. yesterday after the HAL cruise ship docked in Charlottetown, Canada.
The Maasdam left from Montreal on Saturday on a seven-day cruise,
The newspaper states that the vessel’s crew conducted a shipwide search but could not locate the
Mike and Ann Coriam appeared on CNN International yesterday to discuss the "disappearance" of their daughter, Rebecca Coriam, from the Disney Wonder cruise ship. Ms. Coriam worked as a youth counselor aboard the Wonder and went missing six months ago while the cruise ship was sailing a Los Angeles – Mexico itinerary.
The Coriam family are campaigning
A local television station in Galveston, Texas is reporting that a 39 year old passenger is missing after going overboard from the Carnival Conquest after the cruise ship left Cozumel, Mexico.
The incident occurred Friday evening.
ABC affiliate Channel 13 Eyewitness News‘ article states that "according to a statement from Carnival Conquest, a 39-year-old male was seen jumping
Today the Mail Online published an article today entitled: The Vanishing Passengers: It’s A Mystery As Bizarre As It Is Disturbing – Why Have 165 People Gone Missing From Cruise Ships In Recent Years?
The article discusses the cases of "missing’ passengers and crew from cruise ships and the lackluster efforts of the cruise lines and foreign flagged investigations
Mail Online in the U.K. is reporting on the disappearance of what is described as an "elderly" passenger who was traveling alone on the Balmoral cruise ship operated by Fred Olsen Lines.
The story made the news when the cruise ship returned to the port of Southampton after an eight day cruise in the Norwegian fjords. Around 1,000
Disney Cruise youth counselor Rebecca Coriam disappeared from the Disney Wonder in the early morning hours of March 22, 2011.
Her parents, Mike and Ann Coriam from Chester England, know no more today than in March when the cruise line told them their daughter was missing from the cruise ship.
How, exactly, can a person simply disappear
Yesterday, Paul Motter’s popular online cruise community "Cruisemates" published an interesting article entitled "Mainstream Media Stupidity over Cruising." The article is about the weird and sad story of an irate and perhaps drunk father throwing his 7 year old son overboard during a cruise around a harbor in Southern California on a sight-seeing boat.
Cruisemates was upset that
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This week I received a copy of a paperback book about the disappearance of George Smith IV during his honeymoon cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas in July 2005.
The book is written by a reporter from the Greenwich Post, Joan Lownds, who covered the story from the beginning.
The back cover of the book promises
In November 2006, a 73 year old Scottish passenger was reported missing from the Century cruise ship while the vessel traveling near Madeira in the Canary Islands. The disappearance was discovered when a crew member reported that passenger James ("Jimmy") Ewan, of Fife, Scotland, had not used his cabin the previous night.
Ship logs indicate that Mr. Ewan, who had
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Last night our family arrived back in Miami after a three week vacation in the Pacific North West. We enjoyed Pike Place Market in Seattle, kayaked in the Orcas Islands (amazing), mountain biked in Whistler, and hiked Mt. Rainier. What a blast.
Aside from a spectacular wipe-out on a mountain bike trail by my youngest son, we returned to Miami safe and
