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Welcome to our second series.

We are diving into the waters of our cruise ship series, which is called Dark Waters. And this week, we're actually

going to be talking about Annette Meisner. Before we jump into the Annette Meisner story,

we wanted to give you guys a little bit of information about cruises, because in researching all

this, we came across some statistics that are pretty eye-opening and shocking.

So we know that throughout this series we're talking about cruise ship disappearances and deaths.

Well, in 2010, Congress passed a law to improve safety and accountability on cruise ships.

It is called the Cruise Vessel Security and and safety act and it tries to make sure

that there's more surveillance on the ships, crime response training, better communication

with the Coast Guard and the FBI and other requirements. So this is such a big thing that

they're having to pass law and legislation because of cruise ship deaths and disappearances.

Right. There's been over 200 passengers that have disappeared only since 2000. And if you want to break that down per year, I mean, that's staggering numbers.

And that is actually an old statistic. That's something

that we found in research from several years ago. So you know that's got to be an even higher number

now. And what's crazy is this is just U.S. law. If the ship is in international waters, we're still

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