How Many Passengers Died On Cruise Ships
Thats the word today from Michael Bayley the CEO of Royal Caribbean the worlds largest cruise line.
How many passengers died on cruise ships. Three dead dozens injured after Amtrak train derailed in Montana. In an extraordinarily candid Facebook post that addressed the current situation with COVID-19 on cruise vessels. According to a study by the maritime lawyers at Daspit Law Firm 356 people died aboard US cruise ships from 2002 - 2013 and 21 went missing.
Witnesses reported that there was blood running down the face of the elevator doors and that they could hear the blood dripping. Health officials and the industry arent. Accidents suicides and murders are well reported but deaths from natural causes are often missed from the figures.
Heres how many people have gotten sick or died from COVID-19 on cruise ships. Cruise passengers quarantined with quokkas. But the numbers are quite small on average just one or two passengers a week on vessels sailing with more than 1000 people.
The New York Times notes however that only 16 were cruise ships that have sunk between 1980 to 2012. While the Cruise Minus website used to report events only on cruise vessels CruiseMapper has reports also on cruiseferries largest Ro-Ro ships with passenger cabins and riverboats. Opazo an electrician on the 2056-passenger cruise ship was reportedly crushed to death.
That massive outbreak along with numerous over vessels reporting large numbers of positive cases caused huge reputational damage and the industry has been negatively associated with pandemic ever since. Klein who created the site Cruise Junkie dozens of passenger ships have sunk from 1979 to 2013. At least eight of those ships logged cases of COVID-19 resulting in at least 309 cases of the disease or.
Death records were not kept during world was two so in reality the true number is likely to be higher. According to cruise enthusiast Robert A. The majority of these deaths were from natural causes.
