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People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity. Can anything be done to stop it?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 731" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://qz.com/1443797/why-do-people-keep-falling-off-cruise-ships-because-people-keep-stepping-onto-them/" target="_blank"><strong>People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity. Can anything be done to stop it? - Quartz</strong></a></p><p></p><p>On May 12, 2016, Samantha Broberg—a mother of two and stepmother to two more—boarded the Carnival <em>Liberty</em> in Galveston, Texas with two girlfriends.</p><p></p><p>Here’s what her family has been able to glean about the 33-year-old’s roughly 12 hours <a href="https://www.carnival.com/cruise-ships/carnival-liberty.aspx" target="_blank">onboard that ship</a>, which has a capacity of over 4,000 passengers and crew, and boasts a rum bar, a tequila bar, and a sports bar, as well as a casino and a Mexican cantina. Broberg—who at 5’5,” weighed 120 lbs—was served 19 drinks, her husband alleges in an <a href="https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Plaintiff-Trial-Brief-Doc-99.pdf" target="_blank">ongoing civil suit </a>(pdf) he brought against Carnival. Just before 2am, after leaving a bar, she climbed onto a deck chair that was pushed up against a railing on the pool deck.</p><p></p><p>She sat for a few brief moments on the more than 3.5-foot-high railing, with her back to the sea, according to Carnival’s <a href="https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Carnival-Trial-Brief-Doc-106.pdf" target="_blank">trial brief</a> (pdf). Then she fell backward into the Gulf of Mexico, a moment that was caught by the vessel’s thermal camera system.</p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 731, member: 1"] [URL='https://qz.com/1443797/why-do-people-keep-falling-off-cruise-ships-because-people-keep-stepping-onto-them/'][B]People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity. Can anything be done to stop it? - Quartz[/B][/URL] On May 12, 2016, Samantha Broberg—a mother of two and stepmother to two more—boarded the Carnival [I]Liberty[/I] in Galveston, Texas with two girlfriends. Here’s what her family has been able to glean about the 33-year-old’s roughly 12 hours [URL='https://www.carnival.com/cruise-ships/carnival-liberty.aspx']onboard that ship[/URL], which has a capacity of over 4,000 passengers and crew, and boasts a rum bar, a tequila bar, and a sports bar, as well as a casino and a Mexican cantina. Broberg—who at 5’5,” weighed 120 lbs—was served 19 drinks, her husband alleges in an [URL='https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Plaintiff-Trial-Brief-Doc-99.pdf']ongoing civil suit [/URL](pdf) he brought against Carnival. Just before 2am, after leaving a bar, she climbed onto a deck chair that was pushed up against a railing on the pool deck. She sat for a few brief moments on the more than 3.5-foot-high railing, with her back to the sea, according to Carnival’s [URL='https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Carnival-Trial-Brief-Doc-106.pdf']trial brief[/URL] (pdf). Then she fell backward into the Gulf of Mexico, a moment that was caught by the vessel’s thermal camera system. [B] [/B] [/QUOTE]
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