Cruise 101 - Keeping Passengers Safe & Sercure

Cruise 101 - Ensuring Passenger Safety and Security


According to ICCL's president, Michael Crye, and Charlie Mandigo, Director
of Fleet Security for Holland America, the safety record of the cruise
industry in the new age of terrorism is very good. Cruise ships have been
remarkably free of terrorist acts or piracy for the last 30 years. Only one
passenger death as a result of a terrorist action on board a cruise ship has
ever occurred in modern history. In 1985, a 69 year-old, wheelchair-bound
Jewish passenger from New York named Leon Klinghoffer was shot to death and
pushed overboard by hijackers from the Palestinian Liberation Front who had
taken over the cruise ship Achilles Lauro in the Mediterranean...
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