Anyone hear about the missing man?

[flexsmom]

Watching CNN and heard about a man missing from a Royal Caribbean ship on a Med cruise - he was on his honeymoon and blood was found in his stateroom. His wife has been allowed to return home to Connecticut. So sad. Evidently before the blood was found it was presumed he had gone overboard. I suppose with the large number of people who cruise each year, it's amazing that more accidents or crimes don't occur (or aren't reported.)

 

[Jennay]

Royal Caribbean officials earlier thought George Allen Smith IV, 26, may have fallen overboard last week after they spotted blood on an awning over a lifeboat, the New York Post reported.

Smith's new wife, Jennifer Hagel, 25, told officials that he had not been in the cabin when she woke up July 5, and that she presumed he had gone out, the report said.

On Tuesday, authorities in Turkey said blood had also been found inside Smith's cabin. Hagel was interviewed by Turkish authorities and allowed to return home to Cromwell, Conn., the cruise line said.

The couple was married in Newport, R.I. at the end of June and boarded the ship -- Brilliance of the Seas -- in Barcelona on June 29, the Post said.



Ship broadcasts false priracy alarm OSLO, Norway, May 3 (UPI) -- A communications problem might have caused a Norwegian merchant vessel in the Mediterranean to transmit an alarm that it had been boarded by pirates.

It's unclear why the Monday alarm was sounded by the Filipino captain to officials in Oslo, but the ship's owner said it had reason to believe it was because of a pirate attack, Aftenposten reported Tuesday.

Pirate attacks are frequent in Asian waters, but rare in the Mediterranean.

The KCL Banner, with a crew of 19, was transporting cement from Turkey to Portugal when it broadcast the emergency signal.

Greek authorities reacted promptly, sending a helicopter, a frigate and armed special forces to the vessel. Eventually the ship was escorted into port at Pilos and boarded.

"On the one hand, we're glad that both the crew and the ship are safe," said Nils Hoy-Petersen of the Torvald Klaveness Group. "We're also glad that the alarm system worked ... but on the other hand, we're very sorry for the trouble it caused."

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

Not that either of the two stories above are funny....but when I read the "pirate warning" story...I thought it was some kind of an announcement that a Pirate Party was about to begin...but they made the announcement too early. I had no idea that this stuff happened in today's times! Oh my!!

 

[mmouse37]

Here is another link to a website that lists things that go wrong while cruising...I check it every so often and I am amazed at all that can and does happen!!!

http://www.cruisejunkie.com/events.html

MJ

 

[Kae]

Very interesting web site. thanks

Kae

 

[HeelMD]

Spooky...especially since they were on their honeymoon.

 

[TheWog]

there are a few threads on Cruise Critic about the man.... one says the new wife was with another man after a night of drinking and gambling and a fight ensued and he was tossed overboard. Not sure what to believe.

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=204223

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=201223&highlight=Greenwich

 

[plutojudy]

Very interesting reading. Thank you.

 

[UGAFan0829]

Yes, I saw this same story on A Current Affair last night and was a little freaked by it. They stated that the man may have been stabbed. Whatever happened, it's scary!

 

[TheWog]

By Hoa Nguyen
Staff Writer

Published July 14 2005


Bloodstains inside a cruise ship cabin and a bloody handprint on an outside balcony railing are the few scarce clues in the mysterious disappearance of a Greenwich man from a Mediterranean cruise ship a week ago, a Turkish official said yesterday.

"It seems that the man might have fallen from the room's balcony," an official from the Kusadasi prosecutor's office said. "But at this time, there is not enough evidence to say for sure that this was an accident or a crime."


complete story here.... http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/l...2129457.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines

 

[DisneyMom&Fan]

mmouse37 -- great website! Nice to see that Disney hasn't made the list...

 

[fairytalelover]

Here is another link to a website that lists things that go wrong while cruising...I check it every so often and I am amazed at all that can and does happen!!!

http://www.cruisejunkie.com/events.html

MJ

Royal Carribean seems to have a lot of incidents. Hmm.

 

[Jsme]

Here is another link to a website that lists things that go wrong while cruising...I check it every so often and I am amazed at all that can and does happen!!!

http://www.cruisejunkie.com/events.html

MJ

Unless I just over looked something DCL only had 5 entries and they were all in 2001. Very outstanding when compared to the other lines.

 

[fairytalelover]

Unless I just over looked something DCL only had 5 entries and they were all in 2001. Very outstanding when compared to the other lines.

Royal Carribean seems to be the worst

 

[Jsme]

Royal Carribean seems to be the worst

Yeah I noticed that too. I think I will stick with DCL.

 

[Mickeyhugger]

Royal Carribean seems to have a lot of incidents. Hmm.

What does the cruise line itself, have to do with the situation? Horrible events can happen anywhere. RCCL is a humongous cruise line. More ships, thousands of more passengers. Those facts alone increase the likelihood of dangers onboard.

 

[Favorite Auntie]

Not to knock Disney, but they have TWO SHIPS! RCCL has a fair number more, so I think it would be fair to assume that they would have more "incidents" w/o being a more dangerous cruise line.

 

[MandyMommytoReaghan]

Wow....I had not heard anything about the story. I followed the link and it has some pretty interesting stories. Wonder why the bride didn't notice her husband missing unitl morning? That's spooky!

 

[ashman]

I think it is GREAT that DCL has no entries but I would be leery of inferring too much from the entries that are posted. Remember RCCL, Carnival, and Princess have TONS of cruises going on at any given moment where as the most DCL has at any one time is two. Its kinda like those online polls, you can’t exactly extrapolate and infer relative safety from one over the other just by what was on that cruise site. Although it is commendable that DCL doesn’t have any entries remember the comparative volume.

 

[MartyP]

Actually the Magic does have an entry on March 14, 2002. I was on that cruise and knew to look for that date.
MartyP