10 February 2016
Safety at Sea
Cameron Smook, a senior at Virginia Tech, boarded a Carnival Cruise Lines ship with a group of friends on March 7, 2015. On March 8, his parents reported that Smook had fallen overboard during the previous night. Search and rescue efforts to find the 21-year-old proved unsuccessful. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released a statement in the wake of Smook’s death, criticizing cruise lines for failing to implement “the latest in automatic man overboard detection” technology, which is designed to automatically detect when a person goes over the rails.
