Cruise Ship Deaths 2014
In the period 2012-2014 a total of 74 rapes on cruise ships and a total of 29 assault crime cases involving serious body injuries were officially reported.
Cruise ship deaths 2014. Helen Swinstead widow of James Swinstead who died when a freak wave hit the cruise ship Marco Polo in the Channel during Fridays storms. Banner 56 of Salem a suburb of Youngstown Ohio were known to Salem police after a December 21 2014 incident where Darla. The sinking of Sewol is the deadliest ferry disaster in South Korea since 14 December 1970 when the sinking of the ferry.
The death toll stood at 294 as of 22 July 2014 with ten missing. Fact is that in only 1 year period Oct 2007 through Oct 2008 the FBI received from Carnival Cruise Lines alone a total of 93 reports on sex-related crimes on cruise ships. On March 11 2006 my father celebrated his 72nd birthday.
Chang Elmer Choy Kin 81 of Costa Mesa California died January 11 2014 aboard the Princess. A twenty year old cruise passenger from North Carolina fell from a mast on the Carnival Ecstasy this morning according to several local television stations. The date marked the recovery of the last cabin crew member.
Nearly 300 people have gone overboard on cruises and ferries since 2000. The wave hit the UK-based cruise ship MS Marco Polo as it headed for its home port of Tilbury in. As of May 6 2014 264 are confirmed dead and 38 people are still missing.
My father Richard Liffridge and his wife Victoria along with two other couples planned a cruise to celebrate their collective March birthdays. Channel 10 video credit says the passenger fell as the cruise ship was underway returning to the Port of Miami. On 13 January 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground capsized and later sank in shallow waters after striking an underwater rock off Isola del.
Standouts are Costa 3 incidents 35 deaths Carnival 22 incidents 71 deaths Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines with 20 incidents and 23 deaths plus two cruise lines with only a single incident resulting in many deaths. Duffy cites a report by a consulting firm GP Wild International Inc which represents that in the 10 years before the Concordia disaster there were 28 deaths on cruise ships out of 223 million passengers and crew who sailed in the past decade. James Swinstead 85 died almost instantly after water rushed on board the British cruise ship Marco Polo as it was battered by waves during severe storms.
