cruise ship
Some people think that the creators of 9-1-1 must be really crazy to think that there could a cruise ship disaster in the 21st century with all modern saftey advances and regulations.
MS Sea Diamond was a cruise ship operated by Louis Hellenic Cruise Lines. She was built in 1984 by Valmet, Finland for Birka Line as Birka Princess. The ship ran aground near the Greek island of Santorini 5 April 2007, and sank the next day leaving two passengers missing and presumed dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Sea_Diamond
Costa Concordia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkɔsta konˈkɔrdja]) was a cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere.
On 13 January 2012 at 21:45, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio.
The evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours, and of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia
Actually 2 of the 3 deadliest peactime maratime diasters in history happened during the 21st century, and three of the 13 peacetime maritime disasters with over 1,000 dead happened during the 21st century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll#Maritime
Actually the deadliest maritime disasters for almost a century happened to ferry ships and ships carrying migrants. and cruise ships have rather small death tolls in modern times even when they sank.
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