Sunday 28 January 2007

Passengers Vanish From Cruise Ships

The is a pretty mysterious phenomenon. Airplanes disappearing, ships disappearing - all with no real explanation. Equally mysterious, if not more, is the disappearance of dozens of passengers in recent years from themselves. They simply vanish without a trace. There's been no evidence of the dumping of murdered bodies overboard. According to friends and family, suicide is an unlikely explanation. Still, the cruise industry says that more than 30 passengers have disappeared from ships in the past five years – and these figures exclude those known to have been suicides or drunken accidents. In each case, the ship was searched from top to bottom and all passengers checked as they disembarked. No explanation can be determined as to where these missing people could have gone. It's also unknown how long these passengers have been coming up missing. An investigation into the unexplained disappearances only began after a US Congressional subcommittee found itself the task of examining the threat posed to citizens by booking a cruise holiday. Foul play and suicides are the most common explanation, but authorities say this is purely speculative and is unlikely to be the explanation for most of the disappearances. Full Story

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