Cruise Bruise Blog
June 15, 2009
June 15, 2009
Who Didn't Report This Passenger Missing From Cruise Ship?
A man found clinging to a buoy after falling from a cruise ship in coastal Florida has been rescued.
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) Larry Miller, 46, told them he went overboard from the Carnival Inspiration early Monday morning while it was returning to the Port of Tampa.
He was found a few hours later clinging to a buoy near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in the St. Petersburg area.
The full story is here
June 15, 2009
How To Smuggle An Ounce Of Marijuana Onto A Cruise Ship
I need to work really hard to understand this one. A passenger can afford to cruise for a eleven days to Mexico, booked into the Presidential Suite along with his wife. He has a pot smoking habit that he will not address. Taking an ounce of pot with him on the cruise is a given, the question of how to do it and not get caught is the only unresolved travel plan.
Looking for an 11-day Mexican Riviera cruise, I see that Norwegian Cruise Lines offers one aboard Norwegian Sun out of San Francisco, California. By the time this couple is done paying all the expenses for this cruise, they will have likely spent $10,000.
So, his wife goes online to ask others how her husband can smuggle an ounce of dope aboard and not get caught. She says, "This is our first cruise, so we just don’t know what to expect." The responses are wide ranging. The troubling part is yet to come in this story.
This particular bulletin board is for truck drivers. I am (perhaps wrongly) assuming the husband is the professional truck driver, not his wife. Within this assumption I begin to see a truck driver who does enough driving, has steady work, which would imply he has been a truck driver for a long time because rookies do not make great money right out the gate. Certainly he is earning enough to pay the bills plus take an 11-day Mexican Rivera cruise lounging in the Presidential Suite.
Now, he is willing to risk this all, by getting caught smuggling pot onto a cruise ship. Not only that, his pot smoking habit is so severe he smokes two to three ounces a month and absolutely can not stop. This would mean, given the quantity he consumes, he is likely under the influence of pot while driving those big rigs on the interstates.
God help us all.
