Cruise Ship Suicides

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Cruise ship suicides. Wild approximately 60 people per year are injured on cruise ships due to operational mishaps which can range from small fires on the ship to actual explosions collisions and ships sinking or getting stranded. The Cruise Ship Suicides Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic enfolded crew members struggled to cope. Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek January 4 2021 AP PhotoJeff Chiu At first Jozsef Szallers crewmates didnt think much of.

But anyone who follows the cruise industry knows that suicides of crew members are hardly rare. Bloomberg Dec 30 2020 720 PM ET. December 30 2020 501 AM.

Two weeks earlier a safety officer on the Disney Dream committed suicide in a. Between May and September of 2020 there were nearly a dozen non-COVID related deaths among crew on stranded cruise ships which were widely thought to have been suicides. At first Jozsef Szallers crewmates didnt think much of his absence.

Another crew member of the Carnival Breeze cruise ship in Hungary and aged 29 was found dead of an apparent suicide in his cabin on May 9. Much of the conversation about cruise ships at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic focused on getting passengers home with the plight of cruise ship employees largely sidelined. For Saldanha hearing about possible crew suicides exacerbated his anxiety.

The most passenger deaths occurred on Carnival Cruise Lines 29 Royal Caribbean Cruises 12 and Norwegian Cruise Line 10. Larry Morris Hammer 74. A British chef was found hanging in his cabin aboard the Crystal Serenity cruise ship several years ago.

An October 2019 study commissioned by a maritime trade union found that one in five ship-bound workers had at one point considered suicide. There have been many many unreported suicide from tankers and other marine vessels. After pausing sailings in mid-March Carnival Corp.