Who was the girl missing on the cruise ship?

In the early hours of March 24, 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley was seen fast asleep and looked well, according to her father Ron Bradley. The 23-year-old had drifted off in a chair on the private balcony of their family cabin aboard the Rhapsody Of The Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise liner headed for Curaçao.



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The Maritime Injury Guide reports that 19 people go missing from cruise ships yearly. While that may not sound significant, it adds up to 400 people over the last 20 years.

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Approximately 400 people have gone missing from cruise ships in the past 20 years. While this is no cause for general alarm, given that approximately 30 million people take cruise ship vacations each year, it is still a dangerous and concerning statistic.

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The request came almost three months after a Florida judge threw out two lawsuits filed against Royal Caribbean by Ronald and Ivy Bradley, the parents of Amy Bradley.

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FBI's evidence investigators processed the passenger's room once the ship returned to Charleston as planned on Saturday, the agency said. The FBI said that the death was an isolated incident and that other passengers faced no threat before or after the woman was found dead. Nobody is in custody, Wheeler said.

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Within the last 100 years, only 22 cruise ships have sunk, if you include river cruise ships and ocean liners. Almost 2,000 people have died in these incidents but over half of those can be attributed to ships sinking before 1940. Many of the incidents involved no loss of life at all.

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Police have evidence that shows she was abducted and killed, and while they have two viable suspects, Amber's body has never been found.

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All told, these costs eat into revenue, but there is still a healthy profit. How much so? Of the $1,560 in revenue generated from each passenger, 19.1% — $298 — ends up as profit.

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On average, the annual household income earned by cruisers was $114,000. The vast majority of cruise travelers were employed (72 percent) and 21 percent enjoyed their cruise vacation during retirement.

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Royal Caribbean International appeals to adventure-seeking families as well as couples and singles in their 30s to 50s. The median age is low-40s, slightly lower on three- and four-night cruises and slightly higher on longer cruises of 10 or more nights.

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