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Falling Off A Cruise Ship

Falling Off A Cruise Ship

We mention this as the speculation builds over the circumstances surrounding another "man overboard" case Sunday on a Spring Break cruise in the Caribbean. In the latest incident, two twenty-something passengers plunged overboard together while sailing on a Princess ship, ending up in the ocean for four hours before a daring rescue by Princess crew members. The drama unfolds less than two weeks after a Carnival passenger grabbed national headlines with a plunge into the Atlantic (he, too, was rescued, at considerable expense, by the U.S. Coast Guard).

Ref. blogs.usatoday.com/cruiselog/2007/03/is_it_easy_to_f.html

Ship Cruise Off Falling

This is quite worrying that there should be more safety measures in place to prevent this from happening, but either there are none in place, or the structures simply aren't working.
This is one of the things that would put me off going on a cruise, especially with children, I wouldn't be able to relax, for fear that in reality it would only take a minute or so to fall overboard, I'm guessing that not everybody is going to be instantly recognized as being missing immediately either!