Mysterious and unsolved disappearances of cruise ship passengers
Son of passenger who went overboard on Royal Caribbean cruise shares strange details of her disappearance
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Cruise ships regularly lose passengers, even crew members, and continue on their trip unless ordered to stop by the local coast guard. But often the coast guard won't be notified until hours after the person has been reported missing. Think about it this way: cruise ships are full of thousands of people, many of whom are intoxicated, and no police are anywhere to be found. While security exists, they answer to the cruise ship company, which is focused on maximizing profits. They do search for missing people, but there is only so long before the missing person must be abandoned, presumed dead.
On Monday, July 31, a 64-year-old woman named Reeta Sahani disappeared from Royal Caribbean's Spectrum of the Seas cruise ship. Sahani had been traveling with her husband who realized she was missing when he woke up on Monday morning and was unable to locate her on the ship. Sahani's son, Apoorv, posted on X stating that staff claimed she had jumped overboard and showed his father footage from the ship's surveillance. “She was on a holiday enjoying herself and then this whole thing happened,” Apoorv, said in an interview with the Times. “It doesn’t make sense.” He revealed that his mother was unable to swim. Apoorv also claimed that his father was subjected to an hours-long interview with police following her death. The incident occurred while the ship was passing through the Singapore Strait, and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre of Singapore is reportedly leading a search and rescue mission to recover Sahani's body.
Have a look at some of the stories behind how people went missing on cruise ships and were never to be found again.
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