Cruise Passenger Disappearances in the Miami-Herald

A second article on cruise ship safety, this one covering cruise passenger disappearances, is in the Miami-Herald today. This article also quotes maritime lawyer Charles Lipcon of Lipcon, Margulies & Alsina, P.A., who is representing some of the families of missing passengers.

The article quotes Lipcon as follows:

''The cruise lines do not want bad things to happen to their passengers,'' said Charles Lipcon, a Miami lawyer who's suing Carnival Cruise Lines on behalf of a 37-year-old Wisconsin woman who disappeared in December 2004 near the Mexican coast. He supports the idea of a federal security force.

''But when something goes wrong, they take it as a bad press kind of thing -- let's hide the ball and hopefully people won't hear about it,'' Lipcon said.

Read the entire article entitled "Missing Cruise Cases Spur calls for Scruity" in the Miami-Herald.