Cruise ship reports woman missing off Caribbean coast of Mexico

[rainbow4321]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8AUVMO00.html


Maritime authorities were on alert Saturday for a woman reported missing from a cruise ship off the Caribbean coast of Mexico, a Carnival Cruise Lines representative said.

The woman was reported missing at 11 a.m. on Friday by her husband as the cruise ship Elation was returning to Galveston, Texas, after a stop in Belize, according to Jennifer de la Cruz, a representative for Carnival Cruise Lines. De la Cruz declined to identify the missing passenger, who was last seen early Saturday morning leaving her cabin, and then on deck.

The ship turned around and headed back to the area where the woman was last seen before continuing on its voyage Friday night.

Carnival officials said the Mexican Navy had joined the search. Contacted Saturday, navy offices in Mexico City were not aware of the missing passenger or a search.

[Vickers]

1. Oh my Gawd...IS SHE WHITE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

:sarcasm:

[PuraVidaDreamin]

2. and blonde?

[Imagine My Surprise]

7. Having once worked for Carnival...

I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.

[Roland99]

3. NBC *and* ABC both covered a 10 year-old case of a missing woman.

A pretty, white anchorwoman from Iowa missing for 10 years now.

Lester Holt's words as he wrapped up the piece?

"It's important to keep this out there."

[Missy M]

4. Will this become the Cast Away Bride?

[Bzzzz]

5. Sounds like the book...

'Skinny Dip'. Good book, lots of twists.

[babsbunny]

6. I wouldn't doubt it if Republican neo- nuts are

helping these people go missing!

[Liberal In Texas]

8. Actually, from what I've been told this is not a rare occurrence.

There are some people who take a cruise as their last fling before walking to the rail and stepping off. Sometimes couples will have a huge row, or one of them gets caught cheating, and sometimes suicides result from that as well. The cruise lines don't like to talk much about it, but on the last cruise I was on, I got chummy with some crew members that said that it happens a lot.

Besides suicides, there also are the drunks that decide to tight-rope walk on the rail. Sometimes they fall the right way to the deck, sometimes into the sea. I personally saw a drunk the day after he did this (he fell to the deck) with a broken leg. The ship's hospital set and put a cast on, and he spent the rest of his vacation on crutches.

The ship usually tries to find the person, if anybody saw them jump or fall, but by the time the liner can turn around and launch boats, the person is usually long gone. Hypothermia will get them even in Caribbean waters. Plus finding a single person in the vast ocean is near impossible.

Five passengers disappeared in the past 11 months from Carnival Cruise Lines ships. From this article below, but more if you want to google...

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2005/06/06/story1.html

[rainbow4321]

9. Webpage for missing people (from cruise ships)

Kinda scary to see them listed all together..this is a missing person webpage/forum that has a setion for cruise ship disappearances. Includes info on an elderly couple that vanished.

Also talks about the stats of crews assaulting passengers and fellow cruise employees.

http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23885


One posting:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/dec04/282103.asp

FBI explores woman's disappearance on cruise

Federal agents were probing for clues Tuesday into the disappearance of a Waukesha woman who apparently went over the side of a cruise ship about 30 miles off the coast of Mexico

According to a Carnival Cruise Lines statement, Mizener was returning home from a weeklong vacation and would have pulled into port early Sunday in Long Beach, Calif., along with 2,400 other passengers on the ship. After she failed to show up for a 10 p.m. dinner Saturday night, ship employees found her purse along a railing.

The Waukesha mother of two could not be located on board the cruise ship Carnival Pride, so the Coast Guard launched a search of ocean waters 30 miles from shore, about 120 miles south of San Diego.