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Members of the International Cruise Victims Association were scheduled to go to Washington DC in the beginning of April to seek support for legislation they say will protect passengers and increase the rights of victims and their families, of crimes that occur on cruise ships.
“People let their guard down and assume they are safe, but (a cruise ship) is like a city of several thousand people with no police force,” said Kendall Carver. Carver helped form the International Cruise Victims Association after his 40-year-old daughter, Merrian, went missing from a Royal Caribbean Alaska cruise in August 2004.
Better standards within the cruise line industry are being sought by this association and other supporters. The proposed bill, known as the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2009, has been introduced by U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, and U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. This bill calls for the improvement of safety standards in the cruise line industry, which includes everything from ensuring that guard rails are 54 inches in height to providing peep holes on the doors of passenger staterooms.
The bill, if passed, it will modernize the Death on the High Seas Act, which was created to make it easier for widows of seamen to recover monetary damages if a loved one is killed due to someone else’s negligence.
Carver hopes that the bill starts to move in the Senate and in the House.
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