Viewers of the Amy Bradley documentary which topped Netflix’s charts were shocked after they discovered that another girl went missing on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship 14 years later.
Amy Bradley’s disappearance in 1998 has been hotly discussed by viewers of the documentary as she went missing off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship at just 23 years old. Though her family believe she is still alive, there has yet to be concrete proof this is true, and she was declared legally dead in 1999.
There has been widespread criticism of how Royal Caribbean reacted to Amy’s disappearance, most notably by her family in the documentary.
One viewer has now taken to Reddit however to point others to a similar case in which a young girl disappeared off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, leading her mother to slam the cruise liner’s response.
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Ariel Marion, 21 at the time, disappeared from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 2012 and is presumed dead.
Ariel took the cruise with her mother, Vera Marion, on September 16, 2011. Vera took a nap at around 8pm the first night with Ariel going to the pool.
At around 8.30, while Vera slept, another cruise-goer called the ship’s emergency line after ‘something or someone’ fell from a higher deck and brushed their arm while falling.
Vera has since described what happened next, saying that when she woke and went to dinner ‘three security guards asked to speak with [her]'.
She added in a post for International Cruise Victims: “They took me to a secluded area, closed the door, but refused to tell me just what the problem was.
“They asked me to account for my whereabouts since I boarded the ship, and asked if my daughter was able to swim.
“At that point, of course, I realised that something had gone terribly wrong, although no formal announcement had yet been made.”
She recounted how an announcement was not made via the PA system until 11.30 and coast guard were not made aware until 1am when a search began.
Vera recalled being confined to a cabin the rest of the trip and believes that, if Royal Caribbean had taken swift action her daughter may have survived.
She stated: “Unfortunately for me and my family, keeping to a schedule seems to have been more important to Royal Caribbean.” Her daughter’s body was never recovered.
The story was published in the Amy Bradley subreddit to which many viewers of the Netflix documentary were shocked at the similarities.
One comment read: “That’s insane that they get a report of a person going overboard and don’t report it to the coast guard for over 4 hours. Wow.”
Another said: “Disgusting. so sad.”
LADbible have contacted Royal Caribbean for comment.
Topics: Amy Bradley, Cruise Ship, Documentaries, Netflix, Royal Caribbean, TV, TV and Film, True Crime
Michael Slavin