OT: Update on the Irish girl missing from cruise ship.
missingexploited.com
Lynsey O’Brien Missing from Cruise Ship
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A family member raised the alarm on Thursday morning after the 15-year-old was discovered missing from her cabin.
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“We have a full investigation going on,” said Lynn Torrent, president of Costa Cruise Lines.
SM: At least in this case the cruise ship did the right thing and circled the area until further help was provided.
Snip...The cruise ship then circled the area until Mexican Navy vessels arrived to aid in the search. The cruise line said the ship’s staff is trying to console the parents. “They’re devastated,” Torrent said.
Snip...It is understood Ms O’Brien was on the top deck of the ship with her 11-year-old sister, Imelda, when she fell overboard. Her sister then alerted her parents and a search was initiated.
www.sun-sentinel.com/
Irish teen vanishes from cruise ship on trip from Port Everglades to Mexico
By Tom Stieghorst, Business Writer
Posted January 6 2006
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The passenger, who was traveling with her family, was aboard the cruise ship Costa Magica, which left Fort Lauderdale on New Year's Day for a weeklong Western Caribbean itinerary. It is due back on Jan. 8.
OT: Irish girl missing from cruise ship.
http:today.reuters.co.uk/
Mexican navy combs Caribbean for missing Irish girl
Sat Jan 7, 2006 10:28 PM GMT
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican navy rescuers combed waters off the country's Yucatan peninsula in boats and helicopters on Saturday for an Irish girl thought to have fallen off a cruise ship, authorities said.
The cruise ship, operated by Carnival Corp., was off Mexico's Islas Mujeres islands when the teenager fell overboard in the early hours of Thursday, said Mexican navy officer Genaro Escalante.
He said bad weather had hampered the search.
"They haven't found anything yet but the search continues," he said. "The wind has been very strong."
From the link (excerpted):
"More than a dozen people have vanished from cruise ships in the past two years, prompting a Congressional hearing into cruise ship safety last month.
"FBI agent Christopher Swecker said that the agency has investigated 305 serious criminal cases on cruise ships in the past five years. Of those, 10 percent were missing persons and 8 percent of the investigations involved a death on a cruise line."