NEW BAHAMAS - Jill Begora, 59, 10 Dec 2005 - Missing from cruise ship

[ketel0ne]

In another disappearance on a cruise ship, Jill Begora, 59 was reported missing on Saturday morning by her husband in Nassau. The couple is from Canada and took a cruise on Royal Carribean’s Jewel of the Sea.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradent...s/13384298.htm

[WackyLadyCaet]

Canadian woman goes missing during Bahamian cruise

Last Updated Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:21:32 EST CBC News
The U.S. Coast Guard and Bahamian naval boats are searching for a Canadian woman after she mysteriously disappeared while on a cruise ship off the Bahamas.

Officials said they fear Jill Begora, 59, may have fallen overboard as she travelled on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Jewel of the Seas on the weekend.

Officials didn't immediately say where Begora was from or give other details about her.

Her husband reported her absence on Saturday morning, as the ship approached the Bahamian capital of Nassau after visiting the eastern Caribbean island of Antigua.

The crew searched the vessel but couldn't find any sign of Begora and filed a missing person report with the U.S. Coast Guard.

"They did a full ship search and there was no evidence that she had left the ship in Nassau," leading officials to believe she may have fallen into the water, Coast Guard spokesman Dana Warr told the Associated Press.

A Coast Guard C-130 plane was conducting overhead searches on Sunday in the area where Begora was reported missing, about 40 kilometres northeast of Nassau.

Bahamian naval boats were looking for her along the shoreline.

The Jewel of the Seas arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Sunday and was searched by Coast Guard staff.

The investigation will be turned over to the FBI, officials said.


http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/nation...as-051211.html





*This has me thinking again about Amy Bradley and Natalee Holloway, although it seems unlikely a 59yr old would get taken into the sex trade*

[concernedperson]

Highly unlikely that she was taken into the sex trade. However, knowing how little is done as far as investigation on the cruise ships maybe this was a chance of a lifetime for her spouse. Don't know anything, of course,and I certainly hope he isn't responsible. Or it could be some kind of sick game among cruise ship employees.

[Bobbisangel]

I'm sick of hearing the cruise lines say that a person must have gone overboard. The darn rails aren't so low that if you bend over to look down you just topple right over. There was that little oriental couple on a cruise ship that "went overboard" a while back. You know they were elderly...their kids had pitched in to send them on the cruise...and it is doubtful that they decided to jump overboard while on a once in a lifetime vacation. They were also probably short.

These darn cruise lines do everything possible to cover their butts when something happens to a passinger. As long as they have already gotten your big bucks they really don't care what happens to you.

I believe it is the senate that is going to be taking a look at the cruise lines and the way they handle missing passengers as soon as they reconvene.

[KatherineQ]

I wonder how much it would cost to have a video camera trained right down each side of a cruise ship. I don't believe anyone falls off. Okay, maybe a young adult who is drinking for the first time might climb the rails and fall off.

No one else. I don't think a 59 year old woman could "fall off" a cruise ship, and it would be a good thing to know whether she jumped or someone threw her off.

[SewingDeb]

Originally Posted by KatherineQ

I wonder how much it would cost to have a video camera trained right down each side of a cruise ship. I don't believe anyone falls off. Okay, maybe a young adult who is drinking for the first time might climb the rails and fall off.

No one else. I don't think a 59 year old woman could "fall off" a cruise ship, and it would be a good thing to know whether she jumped or someone threw her off.

Excellent idea Katherine. They also need to have the video cameras where no one can touch them. In one case they had been tampered with.

[petra]

Larry King will do segment on cruise ship missing persons on Tuesday, 13 December.