Last week, a Brazilian male crew member on the Wonder of the Seas reportedly ended his life on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship after leaving Port Canaveral. Crew Center acknowledged that the unnamed crew member “apparently died of suicide and left a note before his death along with a video on social media.”
” . . . the crew member requested to log off to return house as a result of some associated to a poor state of affairs again house after his contract was prolonged (however) . . . his request was denied. Some crew members stated that he additionally had some back-home points. The speak amongst crew members is that this might need been the set off for the alleged suicide. Crew Center has contacted a number of crew members who’ve confirmed the demise saying that the crew member was working as a galley steward . . .
This tragedy is one other unhappy reminder that psychological well being professionals are wanted on board as a way to present direct help 24/7 for crew members and speak with each about their considerations, challenges and fears. The psychological well being and wellbeing of the crew must be the primary focus among the many shipboard administration as properly.”
.@RoyalCaribbean doesn’t make use of psychological well being counselors on its fleet of #cruise ships even though least twenty-five (25) ship staff ended their lives on firm’s ships.
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) November 18, 2022
At least twenty-five Royal Caribbean ship staff have gone overboard throughout the previous 13 years. A few years in the past, I wrote about the issue of crew members going lacking from Royal Caribbean cruise ships with out clarification. During a interval of lower than 4 years between 2009 and 2013, a minimum of 13 crew members went over the rails of Royal Caribbean (and subsidiary Celebrity) cruise ships, together with the Majesty of the Seas, Monarch of the Seas (twice), Radiance of the Seas, Explorer of the Seas, Oasis of the Seas, Grandeur of the Seas, Celebrity Constellation, Celebrity Eclipse, Celebrity Summit, and Serenade of the Seas (two). Most of those circumstances have been by no means investigated by the flag state, which, it appears, couldn’t care much less.
The majority of the Royal Caribbean crew members disappeared mysteriously and appeared to have ended their lives 
deliberately. The final Royal Caribbean ship worker to go overboard was a 27 yr previous crew member from Poland who disappeared from the Jewel of the Seas off of the coast of Greece in May of 2021. Closed-circuit digital camera on the cruise ship confirmed him leaping from the cruise ship.
Before that, a ship worker, reportedly from India, went overboard from the Odyssey of the Seas in April of 2021 because the Royal Caribbean cruise ship sailed south of Cyprus en path to Haifa.
A 35 year-old crew member from India went overboard from the Rhapsody of the Seas in September of 2019.
A Royal Caribbean crew member went overboard from the Majesty of the Seas in January of 2019.
A younger Celebrity Cruises officer hung himself on the Celebrity Millennium, on December 6, 2018.
Another Royal Caribbean crew member, a performer, age 20, of the United Kingdom, went overboard from the Harmony of 
the Seas the day after Christmas of 2018.
A Royal Caribbean crew member disappeared from the Adventure of the Seas on the finish of November of 2018.
A crew member went overboard from the Celebrity Reflection in October of 2018.
A Royal Caribbean crew member went overboard in an obvious suicide from the Vision of the Seas in December of 2017.
A Royal Caribbean crew member went overboard from the Liberty of the Seas in April of 2017.
A Royal Caribbean crew member went overboard from the Independence of the Seas in August of 2014.
A Celebrity crew member disappeared at sea from the Celebrity Constellation in January of 2014.
Royal Caribbean has constructed its status on constructing super-sized cruise ships just like the Oasis of the Seas, Allure of the Seas, Wonder of the Seas and, most lately, Ion of the Seas. These monsters price actually billions of {dollars} to assemble. Yet, Royal Caribbean doesn’t make use of psychological well being counselors on its fleet even though a minimum of twenty-five crew members ended their lives on the ships.
I beforehand described this unhappy state of affairs in an article titled Misery Machines and Crew Member Suicides.
Condolences to this unidentified crew member’s household and mates in addition to his teammates who he left behind.
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Misery Machines and Crew Member Suicides.
Photo Credit: Top- Wonder of the Seas – ND44 – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia; Jewel of the Seas – Dave Souza – CC BY-SA 2.5 commons / wikimedia; Royal Caribbean promotional video of the Harmony of the Seas; Oasis of the Seas -Baldwin040 – CC BY-SA 3.0 commons / wikimedia; Vision of the Seas – crew member with purple bucket – Bahamas Maritime Authority.