UPDATE: Suffolk County DA's office says no foul play in either death.
State Police report a Norwegian Cruise Line ship that docked at the Black Falcon Pier around 6:30 a.m. had two fewer passengers than it started with.
The death of one of the two, a 67-year-old woman, is not regarded as suspicious. State Police, however, have secured the stateroom of the other, a 23-year-old man. State Police said they do not know how the man died, but are investigating because 23-year-olds do not normally just die.
Based on port data, the ship was the Norwegian Dawn, returning from a cruise to Bermuda.
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Comments
This was no boating accident!
By anon
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 10:41am
Oh wait, maybe it was...
Lingo alert
By fenwayguy
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:14am
MSN?
what is an MSN ?
By Ron Newman
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:35am
MSN
By Allstonian
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:41am
I think that's a typo for "man" that got auto-corrected to caps.
Damn you, auto-correct!
By adamg
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 12:36pm
Yep, this is what happens when I post from my phone.
MSN died because nobody needed another proprietary network :-)
wait what
By eekanotloggedin
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:53am
67-year-olds don't generally up and die either.
No
By Dave
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 9:41pm
But specific ones sometimes do.
See....
By John-W
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 12:10pm
...this is what happens when you don't bring Angela Lansbury along on your cruise....unsolved mysteries!
Actually
By eekanotloggedin
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 12:11pm
that would happen if you brought Robert Stack along.
The three lessons
By roadman
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 12:56pm
everybody should have learned from TV:
a) Never discuss the Great Pumpkin in public;
b) If Hughie Rowland offers you a job driving for his trucking company, don't accept it under ANY circumstances; and
c) Never invite Angela Lansbury to a party.
"Well, Hugh and Rick, there,
By Alex Debogorsky
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 5:23pm
"Well, Hugh and Rick, there, they drive too fast and wreck their loads, eh? Ho ho ho!"
dawn of the dead?
By bostnkid
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:10pm
ive been to bermuda, maybe they died of boredom?
The Bermuda Triangle
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:55pm
Even if it was simply a matter of life tables crossing boat time tables, we still have to attribute anything that happens to anyone who recently crossed that space to supernatural events!
This is hardly a time to crack jokes
By Ian Lamont
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:17pm
Imagine if you were a relative or friend, and were subjected to jokes about the circumstances of their deaths.
Two families are going through a lot of pain right now. Please show some respect.
im sorry ian
By bostnkid
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:32pm
i just wasnt thinking.
Speak for yourself
By anon
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 3:08pm
Maybe your family follows some official grief script, but I recently lost someone under similar circumstances and my family would have found this both highly appropriate (to the mystery-buff deceased) and howlingly funny.
Different families grieve differently. Some can't joke, others roll out the black humor in a great swelling tide.
maybe its a plague adn we are
By Nigel Bruce
Sat, 10/29/2011 - 4:59pm
maybe its a plague adn we are going to turn in to zombies, it is halloween weekend
Statement from DA's office
By adamg
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:43pm
Did not need . . .
By Chris Dowd
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 3:58pm
. . . anymore convincing to never set foot on a cruise ship (the more or less regularly appearing stories about cruise ship food poisoning with broken backed up smelly toilets- usually does that job quite well).
Sort of sad to miss out on
By J
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 7:24pm
Sort of sad to miss out on awesome times to due ignorance-fueled paranoia.
Your loss.
What can I say . . . .
By Chris Dowd
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 10:07pm
. . . even from the people I know who enjoy the cruise ship experience, from their descriptions- I know it is not for me. This sort of news is just topping on something I'm pretty sure already that I wouldn't enjoy.
What sort of news?
By anon
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 11:21pm
What do you mean "this sort of news?" Put 5,000 people on a cruise ship for a week and sometimes one or two are going to die during the cruise. And if the same 5,000 people were to stay home for the same week, then some of them would have died at home, too.
Is there any evidence that the rate of death on cruise ships is any greater than among an equivalent age-matched population not on cruise ships?
This cruise is cursed!
By JohnAKeith
Fri, 10/28/2011 - 9:05pm
This must be one of the last if not the last cruises of the season for the Norwegian Dawn. I recommend they never run it again!
We took it several years ago and were caught in the dangerous Atlantic seas on the way back. A window blew out in the storm, sea water coming in shorted out a light, people panicked, everyone put on life jackets, we started heading toward the decks before the captain got on the speaker and told us all to stand down. The ship was turned around so they could fix the window and it took an additional 24 hours to finally make port in Boston.
It would have all been fun if the seas hadn't been so stormy that everyone was stuck in their cabins, puking (including most of the crew!).
Worse, they closed down the casino for most of the time!
That's what you get...
By Cutriss
Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:26am
...for building a cruise-ship out of orphans.
Cutriss: I don't know what
By joehp
Sat, 10/29/2011 - 8:04pm
Cutriss: I don't know what you're talking about, but you still made me laugh.