Cold Duck
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- Jul 8, 2022
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- Vessel Name
- Cold Duck
- Vessel Make
- MS 350 Trawler, 1997
The vast majority of cruise ship deaths are from falling over board. [/QUOTE]
Actually this is not true. The majority of deaths on cruise ships come from "old people" dying of natural causes. I have been on at least 4 cruises where people died, not one fell overboard. Routinely people die on cruise ships from natural causes, not diseases or falling overboard. It's just numbers, 3-5000 people mostly elderly (55+) together for 2 weeks or so and statistics just tend to have someone die of natural causes. The Cruise Ships deal with this all the time. I was in Columbia, where a guest died of a heart attack on the pier. They did their best to say he died on the ship otherwise the wife would be stuck with tons of paperwork and weeks to get her dead husband out of the country. They got him back on board and put on ice for the rest of the cruise. I've seen in Mexico where parents wanted to retrieve their son who died with another couple he just met, and the Mexican officials would not release the body unless the parents took and paid for the couple they didn't even know. It can be a bitch getting a body outta a foreign country.
Actually this is not true. The majority of deaths on cruise ships come from "old people" dying of natural causes. I have been on at least 4 cruises where people died, not one fell overboard. Routinely people die on cruise ships from natural causes, not diseases or falling overboard. It's just numbers, 3-5000 people mostly elderly (55+) together for 2 weeks or so and statistics just tend to have someone die of natural causes. The Cruise Ships deal with this all the time. I was in Columbia, where a guest died of a heart attack on the pier. They did their best to say he died on the ship otherwise the wife would be stuck with tons of paperwork and weeks to get her dead husband out of the country. They got him back on board and put on ice for the rest of the cruise. I've seen in Mexico where parents wanted to retrieve their son who died with another couple he just met, and the Mexican officials would not release the body unless the parents took and paid for the couple they didn't even know. It can be a bitch getting a body outta a foreign country.