Falling Off Cruise Ship

You Cant Just Fall Off A Cruise Ship.

Falling off cruise ship. Royal Caribbean Cruises filed a motion this month asking the federal court in the Southern District of Florida to dismiss a suit by the family of the toddler Chloe Rae Margaret Wiegand who died. Posted on August 21 2018 by CruiseMiss 2 Comments. Safety regulations including uniform minimum railing and balcony heights and structural barriers are also in place to prevent passengers who are acting responsibly from simply falling off a cruise ship said Sarah Kennedy a spokesperson for CLIA.

This makes your chance of falling overboard on a cruise around 1 in 14 million. In 2019 26 people fell overboard out of the 29 million guests that took a cruise that year. If it happens at night youll be waiting to be rescued while its pitch black if you get rescued at all.

And when delivered by an intense newscaster reporting on a family. Things were looking grim for the 22-year-old American tourist who could only watch helplessly as his ship sailed away. In 2016 so far there have only been four.

When Frank Jade fell off the deck of Royal Caribbeans Oasis of the Seas on January 8 2015 nobody noticed that one of the ships 6360 passengers had gone missing. Between 2000 and 2008 284 people fell overboard from cruise ships and 41 more fell from large ferries. Its a vacation nightmare as a passenger falls 15 stories off a cruise ship balcony into the pitch black sea.

In 2017 alone 17 individuals fell overboard and thus far in 2018 five people have been reported as falling overboard. Wild about 19 people fall off of cruise ships or ferries every year. In the global cruise industry one or two people are statistically likely to fall overboard from a cruise ship each month and somewhere between 17 and 25 are rescued according to Kleins.

Divers frantically searching in the dark for a person believed to have fallen off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship have made a tragic discovery finding the body of a man. And heck maybe 13 people a year falling off ships sounds like a lot too but consider the fact that over 11 million people in the United States alone took cruises over the past 12 months and you begin to get a clearer picture. High railings on public decks prevent passengers.