I recently helped someone with some searching on the Internet for information about a missing person they were looking for that had been in the Navy at the same time as myself.
During that searching, I came across a unbelievable fact that last year (2005) 14 people have mysteriously disappeared from various Cruise Ships around the world!
At the moment it would seem that there is confusion as to who’s responsible for investigating the event when someone goes missing from a Cruise Ship. Is it the country where the ship is registered, the nationality of the owning company, the nationality of the home port of the ship?
The situation seems so confused that that a new Website has sprung up that helps the relatives of the missing victims and hopes to influence governments (and in particularly the US Congress) to pass new legislation to tighten up the reporting of crimes on board cruise ships.
Also backing up this subject, a number of media organisations are now starting to cover this with news articles from the UK Times, Telegraph and Independent newspapers on the subject.
Sounds a very strange situation!
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