{"id":19541,"date":"2012-03-19T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19541"},"modified":"2012-03-19T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:51:33","slug":"cruise-ships-playground-for-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/cruise-ships-playground-for-predators","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Ships: Playground For Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"
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cruise ships playground for crime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Criminals are more likely to get away with serious crimes on cruise ships than anywhere else, a maritime lawyer has warned, with 200 people vanishing at sea worldwide in the past decade.<\/p>\n

Jim Walker said about half the disappearances have some factor of foul play.<\/p>\n

“The place to get away with a crime is on a cruise ship,” he told the SBS program Dateline.<\/p>\n

“The place to be a sexual predator and prey on children is on a cruise ship.<\/p>\n

“If you’re a rapist, you’re more likely to get away with it committing the crime on a cruise ship on the high seas.<\/p>\n

“All of this is happening out in international waters, typically.<\/p>\n

“There are no policemen on the scene… You can’t summons a police officer who will run onto the crime scene. So they’re out there by themselves.”<\/p>\n

In Australia, the death of Australian woman Dianne Brimble received widespread media coverage with strong criticism of the party culture that existed aboard cruise ships.<\/p>\n

Ms Brimble died aboard a P&O Cruise ship of a drug overdose after consuming a date rape drug and is alleged to have received callous treatment from passengers she was with at the time of taking the drug.<\/p>\n

Mr Walker said the cruise industry knew it had a problem more than a decade ago and tried to fix it through slick advertising and marketing, rather than taking the hard steps they needed to really clean their act up.<\/p>\n

“You have cabin attendants now who are being hired from Third World countries – no disrespect to small Cibian islands – that have no databases.<\/p>\n

“You can’t track them even if you wanted to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past decade 200 people have gone missing at sea. The cruise industry knows it has a problem but covers it with slick advertising rather than taking steps to make cruise ships safer from predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,33,73],"class_list":["post-19541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-cruise","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}