Missing on Cruise Ships

how many people do you think go missing on cruise ships?
My grandson said seven thousand
I asked how many years
he thought one
Obviously, he has been watching too much C.I.S. Miami

I researched this “for fun today”
because I am strangely weird.

In the past two decades guess how many have gone missing?
Hint: seven thousand is way too high

four hundred people have gone missing from cruise ships
in twenty years
that’s twenty people a year

In ten years two hundred people have gone overboard and been seen
forty-eight of them were rescued

Now do you see why I never plan to go on a cruise?
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