The Secret Lives Of Cruise Ship Workers

Onboard Suicides?

According to crew members, there have even been incidents where people purposely book a cruise in order to commit suicide. However, they say it is usually easy to tell if someone purposely went overboard or if it was an accident. Crew members say that passengers who want to commit suicide often engage in strange behavior for instance boarding with no luggage.

More details…

One such instance also happened on a Royal Caribbean when a man was filmed throwing himself from the ship. Thirty-five-year-old Bernardo Elbaz intentionally went over the side of the ship however he then was seen clinging to the side before falling into the water below. Sadly, he did not survive. Family representatives, however, said he did not mean to kill himself but was rather being dramatic to protest how he felt he was being treated. Bernardo was on the cruise with his husband and was apparently being taunted with anti- gay language at the bar before the incident. He was also highly intoxicated at the time. However, man overboard occurrences aren’t so common after all. Cruisejunkie.com is a website that tracks man overboard incidents, from 1995 to 2015 there were 243 cases which is pretty small considering thousands of people that set sail around the year.