Disney Cruise Ship Crewmember Reported Missing At Sea

MIAMI -- A crewmember on a Disney cruise ship has been reported missing at sea off the western coast of Mexico.

Disney Cruise Lines spokeswoman Christi Donnan says the female crewmember was reported missing Tuesday morning after she failed to report for a scheduled shift on the Disney Wonder.

The woman's name was not released. Donnan says Disney conducted a thorough search of the ship Tuesday.

The Mexican Navy was searching along the ship's route from Los Angeles. The U.S. Coast Guard and FBI were also notified.

Investigators from the Bahamas Maritime Authority will meet the ship Friday in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. All three Disney cruise ships are registered in The Bahamas.

Comments

[YoBear]

09:09 AM on 03/25/2011

Foul play or an accident. I'm praying they find her.

[AllieGoogle]

12:59 PM on 03/25/2011

Or suicide. And highly unlikely they will find her at this point -this late.

[medicontheedge]

09:06 AM on 03/25/2011

Wow...How did this news leak out? Don't these cruise lines have tighter security than the CIA to keep bad news out of the public eye?

[AllieGoogle]

12:59 PM on 03/25/2011

Nope, where did you get a crazy idea like that.

[Hank26]

12:52 AM on 03/25/2011

In addition to life vests for every passenger they need to provide mace and 45's.

[garystartswithg]

01:48 AM on 03/25/2011

Maybe living wages would help too.

[Hank26]

02:20 AM on 03/25/2011

You think she may have jumped because she found out she made less than Goofy?

[AllieGoogle]

12:59 PM on 03/25/2011

She might have fallen or jumped.

[HTD]

12:23 AM on 03/25/2011

Tinker Bell has got his back.......... OK in bad taste ! LOL

[Ishmael1]

11:54 PM on 03/24/2011

In the Navy, we used to call this being "Float-tested".

[MNJim]

11:39 PM on 03/24/2011

A difficult situation, to be sure. However, look at the foto of the ship itself. Doesn't it look odd? It looks so top heavy; like any big wave could just push it over on its side or make another Poseidon Adventure.

[MMRDO]

12:24 AM on 03/25/2011

It is high for a reason, it rocks gentler, it rolls further to the side, it means you rock gently in your sleep, now the Training Ship Empire State VI is a cargo ship and it rocks like a whip!

[ThinkCreeps]

01:29 AM on 03/25/2011

It's high so that you can more fat people onboard and give each of them a window, while maintain plenty of shopping lower down. They don't do weather, although they would be quite exciting if there was a fire.

[AlbuquerqueSteve]

11:35 PM on 03/24/2011

I wonder if anyone (i.e. the FBI) has ever cross-checked the passenger lists of all the cruises where people have gone missing in the middle of the ocean. I wonder if we have a sophisticated, affluent serial killer on the loose.

[MMRDO]

12:25 AM on 03/25/2011

The ocean is a dangerous place.

[ThinkCreeps]

01:28 AM on 03/25/2011

The suspect might be affluent, but I very much doubt we'd be looking for a sophisticate.

[steph81]

11:24 PM on 03/24/2011

Maybe so pirates got to her

[goldengirl43]

11:14 PM on 03/24/2011

Is this missing crew member one of those East European kids these ships traditionally work nearly to death?

[TricksR4Kids]

11:31 PM on 03/24/2011

or could be Filipina.

[GraphicMatt]

11:51 AM on 03/25/2011

They don't discriminate.....they work people of any nationality nearly to death, not just the eastern European ones.

[Brian Gorrell]

11:00 PM on 03/24/2011

My friend was robbed the day after she got on board one of these ships.
She was pushed into her room and robbed and she was sexually assaulted and warned not to report it or she would be killed.
Apparently a dozen people were robbed in three days and the person was never caught.
Inside job?

[signgrrl]

12:00 PM on 03/25/2011

good possibility

[AllieGoogle]

01:04 PM on 03/25/2011

Let's see the news report of that. Bogus. Ships have security cameras everywhere and extensive security personnel. If I were attacked on a ship I'd certainly report it - to the ship - or at the first port of call.

[Brian Gorrell]

07:22 PM on 03/25/2011

This happened 15 years ago and there WAS an investigation.

[Eyeshaveit]

10:55 PM on 03/24/2011

Question Donald Duck. We all know that he has quite a temper.

[Hank26]

12:50 AM on 03/25/2011

Goofy, Daffy and Wilbur were the last ones to see her that night. When they were questioned, they said she was no Snow White!

[babybecks]

10:53 PM on 03/24/2011

How nice to see all the jokes at the expense of a fellow human's demise.

[Pinkasaurus]

11:18 PM on 03/24/2011

That always amazes me too

[Marla Thurman]

11:48 PM on 03/24/2011

Crazy what some minds consider funny.

[dlaurels]

10:29 PM on 03/24/2011

What to heck is going on with these cruise ships? This is definitely getting ridiculous.

[Jeffin90019]

10:20 PM on 03/24/2011

Cruise ships have a dark history of passengers and crew members going missing or being murdered. And cruise lines work really hard to keep this quiet. Ocean liners can be the perfect hunting ground; after the attack there's an entire ocean to make the evidence disappear. I shudder to think what happened to this woman, and what will happen to the next woman.

[Phoebe917]

10:53 PM on 03/24/2011

i am hoping she just said "take this job and shove it" and didn't embark when it left port.

[Brian Gorrell]

11:01 PM on 03/24/2011

Men are also murdered, trust me.

[sibyl9]

09:51 PM on 03/24/2011

Beware of the Mexican Jungle Cruise.