Diana just heard this a little bit ago. Cruise line calls off search for girl missing on the Voyager of the Seas between Rome and Naples.

Here is the article that I found online just minutes ago.
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Naples Woman Missing On 'Voyager Of The Seas'
(CBS4 News) MIAMI Yet another passenger has disappeared from a cruise ship, and a search is underway. The Southwest Florida was reported missing from Royal Caribbean Cruise lines “Voyager of the Seas”, which is currently cruising in the Mediterranean.

Royal Caribbean International says it is working in coordination with U.S. and Italian authorities to determine the whereabouts of 22-year-old, Elizabeth Galeana, a women from Naples, Florida was sailing onboard Voyager of the Seas. The women's identity was made public by family members, but Royal Caribbean would not confirm anything but her nationality.

Galena's father, Frank Galena, operates auto dealerships in Naples, South Caroina, and Michigan.

Galeana was last seen at approximately 12:30 a.m. Tuesday July 25th, when she joined her parents to sleep in their stateroom says the statement.

At that time, the ship was sailing from Civitavecchia, the port which serves Rome, to Naples.

Galeana was reported missing by her sister at approximately 7:30 a.m. Tuesday shortly after the vessel berthed at Naples cruise terminal. A variety of onboard announcements and searches were immediately carried out, without success.

Royal Caribbean notified the U.S. and Italian Coast Guards, the FBI, the U.S. Consulate in Naples and the Naples police. The Naples police conducted an investigation and the Italian Coast Guard is conducting air and sea Searches. 'A number of search boats and aircraft have been used by the authorities in the past couple of days', Michael Sheehan, director of corporate communications Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd told Seatrade Insider. There have been no sightings reported.

Royal Caribbean says it is fully supporting the investigation in numerous ways, including the collection of onboard records, videotapes and statements, and preserving staterooms for investigators.

A senior Royal Caribbean executive and a company Guest Care Team joined the ship to further assist the woman's family. 'Our thoughts and prayers are with this woman and her family,' said RCI president, Adam Goldstein.
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I guess this happened earlier in the week, but this is the first that I have heard this.

Yikes!

Seems that so many people go missing in the middle of the night. Has this always happened or are we just hearing more of it?

How awful! Do people sleep walk and go out on their balcony and fall off???!!! :eek:

Lauri, It has happened to some degree, but not as much as we are hearing about it lately. RCI, also seems to be having the lions share of these for whatever reason.

Hard to believe, but, I can see someone under the influence climbing on the rails and falling.

We were off the California coast yesterday on a 100 passenger catamaran and the wind was pretty strong. A couple of people had their glasses blown right off their faces, purses and bags moved around the open decks too.

I believe that this disappearance ended badly. A body was found a couple of days ago, and they were just waiting for positive ID. The Family put out a statement yesterday, that sounded like it had been confirmed, and they were asking that their privacy be respected. So sad for this family. There was threads about this on C.C

Thanks for the update. Very sad indeed!

Did she fall? I didn't see anything that mentioned that
Man, between the missing cruisers and the drunk captains..
what next?
If you haven't read this one click on:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060801/od_nm/crime_sailor_dc_2

Hi,

We were just on the sister ship to the Voyager with 3,600 guests plus crew. We gave our 13 year old granddaughter a midnight curfew. She kept telling us that the ship allowed the teens to wander around until 1:00 a.m. We told her "no way". We did allow her to stay out until 12:30 a.m. the last night for the teen goodby party. I emailed her the news about the missing 22 year old to let her know why her grandfather and I were so strict with her curfew. These huge ships are party ships and lots of drinking goes on. I counted 18 bars on the ship. There is very little security and the parents of teenagers are oblivious to any danger aboard a ship. Our granddaughter looks about 16 years old and is very developed. Since, this was not our first time taking a grandchild on a cruise, we used a lot of caution. She told us after we docked that she would go again with us in a moment!

Shoshona

There sure hasn't been much on this at all. Oh, and on the story about the drunken captain. He wasn't actually operating the ship at the time. The real story is that a captain was intoxicated five hours before they set sail and maritime law prohibits them to be inebriated beyond a certain level within 8 hours of sailing.