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But what's not widely known is that the industry also has a very dubious record of mysterious disappearances.

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 10 people who disappeared while traveling on cruise ships.

I just can't believe that the international community are letting this go on, really.

Luxury cruising is supposed to be the ultimate getaway, where you leave all your cares behind. 63-year-old John Halford was going through marriage problems, so he decided to embark on an Egyptian cruise.

The Thompson ship was approaching Egypt on the night of April 6th, 2011, and was due to arrive in Sharm el-Sheikh the following morning.

That evening, Halford packed his suitcase with gifts for his family and left it outside the door of his cabin.

He then went down to the bar and was seen drinking cocktails around 11.45 that evening.

Halford was gone when the ship reached port the following morning, but his suitcase was still sitting outside his door.

Halford was never found, and his body was never recovered, leading many to question what exactly had occurred.

While the cruise industry has followed some guidelines, such as installing peepholes in cabin doors, few ships have upgraded their video systems or installed man overboard alarm systems, and passengers continue to disappear.

What happened to Kevin McGrath on that Carnival cruise ship remains a mystery.

After an extensive search, including hundreds of square miles of open water, the Coast Guard is suspending its role in the case, and now police are asking for the public's help.

Florida native Kevin McGrath embarked on a Bahamas cruise with his family to celebrate his father's 60th birthday.

The ship returned to Miami on September 4th, 2023, and McGrath had vanished.

He was seen on the night of September 3rd, and it was discovered that the key card to his room was used at 3.30 a.m. on the morning of the 4th.

His family thought it was suspicious when he didn't show up for breakfast, but panic really set in when everyone was disembarking and McGrath was still nowhere to be found.

McGrath was not seen going overboard on any of the ship's surveillance cameras, and the sensors that indicate a passenger falling off the ship never went off.

I don't feel like he is, like, dead or anything.

I don't wanna think of it like that, but then again, you have to also have that thought, like I told, you know, everybody else before.

Like, you have to have that, you know, what if, you know?

But I don't feel in my heart that he's dead at all.

Annette Meisner. 37-year-old Wisconsin woman Annette Meisner embarked on a carnival cruise to the Mexican Riviera with her parents and daughter.

December 4th, 2004 was the last day of the excursion, and Meisner was last seen at 9.15 p.m. when the ship was off the coast of Ensenada.

Meisner's daughter, Danielle, later noticed that her mother was missing, and the crew launched a room-by-room search of the ship.

The only trace of Meisner was her purse, which was found near a railing on the lower deck.

Coast Guard combed over 800 square miles of ocean, and the FBI even got involved to help find the missing woman.

Alas, the multiple searches came up empty, and Meisner is presumed dead.

Tonight, a mystery disappearance on a cruise ship reveals a tumultuous relationship filled with secrets. 47-year-old mother of two Fariba Amani disappeared overnight between the Bahamas and Florida while on a cruise with her boyfriend.

Vancouver's Fariba Amani embarked on a celebration cruise with her boyfriend of eight months, Rameez Golshani.

Golshani left Amani at the gift shop around 1 a.m. on the morning of February 29, 2012.

Amani wasn't in the room when he woke up later that morning, and she still hadn't arrived when it came time for everyone to disembark.

She was never found and has remained missing ever since.

Sometime between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m., investigators say a female passenger in her 40s went missing.

Amani's family believes that Golshani knows more than he's letting on, saying that he and Amani had a fractured relationship and that Amani was thinking of leaving him.

However, Golshani has continued to proclaim his innocence and was not considered a suspect by the FBI.

Cops question Golshani but say he is not a suspect.

When Carver called the cruise line, he received some shocking news.

Officials confirmed that Marion got on the cruise.

They just weren't sure if she had gotten off. 40-year-old Marion Carver boarded the Celebrity Mercury Cruise on August 27, 2004, and she went missing the very next day.

But what makes this story so disturbing is the cruise line's bewildering response.

Carver's steward reported her missing to his supervisor, but he was told to just do your job and forget it.

At the end of the cruise, Marion sends her in the room where they'd been for five days.

The boss says, no, he says, I'll take care of it.

The ship also continued along its planned course, stopping at various places around Alaska.

Carver never disembarked at any of these places, and they continued to ignore her disappearance.

The ship later gave her belongings to charity.

Some people believe that the line is hiding something malicious, while others believe they were simply ignoring a problem for the sake of normalcy and routine.

Royal Caribbean gave Marion's clothes to charity and worst of all, told no one she was unaccounted for, not the police, not the family.

In July of 2004, Christopher Caldwell embarked on a Mexican cruise with his fiance.

On the final night of the cruise, they hit various nightclubs and went gambling in the casino.

When Caldwell's fiance said she was going to bed, Caldwell said that he would be in shortly, but that he wanted to do a bit more gambling.

She woke up at 6.30 the next morning and Caldwell was not there.

Following an investigation, it was discovered that Caldwell left the casino at 2.17 a.m. and went to the promenade where a bartender saw him and reported him as being very drunk.

It's presumed that Caldwell fell overboard, but this was never confirmed and his search of the surrounding ocean brought up nothing.

Huey Fam and Huey Tran disappeared from the Carnival Cruise Ship Destiny, somewhere between Barbados and Aruba.

Their family says that four hours elapsed between reports of the couple's disappearance and a call to the Coast Guard.

It's not often that couples go missing on cruise ships, but it does happen, as in the case of Huey Fam and Huey Tran.

The married couple of 49 years were aboard the Carnival Destiny, traveling with their daughter and granddaughter, but they both disappeared on May 12th, 2005, when the ship was traveling between Barbados and Aruba.

Later that day, a ship employee found various items belonging to the couple, including their passports, driver's licenses, medication, and wallets, their credit cards still inside.

A search and rescue effort was launched to look for the missing passengers, but it was called off less than 13 hours later, with the couple being presumed dead.

They were both in good health, in good spirits.

Most of those stories, a month later or two months later, everybody would forget, but because Michael was one of the, son Michael was one of the founding members of International Cruise Victim, that story is out there today and is continuing to be read.

It is the most Agatha Christie-like of any of the big cases. 26-year-old store manager George Smith had gotten married just 11 days before he disappeared.

Smith and his new wife, Jennifer Hagel, were aboard a Mediterranean cruise to celebrate their honeymoon, but tragedy struck on July 5th, 2005.

Unlike other entries on this list, foul play was implied.

Witnesses reported hearing a scuffle in Smith's room and blood was later found in his cabin and on the side of the ship, suggesting that he may have been attacked and thrown overboard.

And it sounded to me like there was furniture or something being thrown around the room.

After about eight minutes of this, it was totally quiet.

Homicide was immediately suspected and the leading theory is that Smith was the target of a robbery that turned violent.

However, Jennifer Hagel disagrees, suggesting that her husband accidentally hurt himself and fell overboard following a night of heavy drinking.

My wife and I were awakened by a yelling coming from the Smith cabin.

This yelling sounded what I would liken to a drinking game where individuals are encouraging somebody to take shots or chug beers.

Tell us a little bit about what you know and have been able to piece together about what happened to Rebecca.

The story of Rebecca Coriam is an interesting one as she was actually an employee of the cruise ship, Disney Wonder.

Early on March 21st, 2011, Coriam was captured on CCTV in the crew lounge, having what appeared to be a distressing phone call.

Another employee can be seen passing her and asking if she's all right, to which Coriam seemingly replies, yeah, fine.

They thought they must have it wrong or something.