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When we go on vacation, we let our guard down and go with the flow. Things feel easy, safe.

We're surrounded by friends and family, other travelers, and systems designed to keep everything running smoothly. On a cruise ship, that feeling is dialed

all the way up. You don't have to plan or think or worry about anything. It's all taken

care of and handed to you on a silver platter.

But sometimes that sense of ease can work against us.

Because the very things that make a cruise ship feel carefree, its size, its crowds,

its constant motion can also make it easier for something or someone to slip through the cracks.

In 1998, the Bradley family learned this the hard way.

On March 21st, they boarded a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. They were ready for a carefree

week at sea. But just three days in, their dream vacation turned into a nightmare when 23-year-old

Amy Bradley vanished without a trace. The search for her would span land, sea, and air.

But when you go missing in the middle of an ocean,

the water has a way of swallowing everything,

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