The chance that you die during a cruise is bigger than you think

amsterdam - The chance that you can not tell a cruise holiday is 1 in 100,000. That states the American newspaper NY Daily News. For comparison: the chance that you win the jackpot in the Staatsloterij is 1 in 4 million.

Last week it was again hit twice: two passengers hit the ship overboard and died. In the past year there were dozens of victims, the newspaper calculated on the basis of the website cruiseshipdeaths. com (yes, that site really exists). Of the 46 deaths, 31 died due to a non-natural cause.

Not only do people jump overboard, but murders are also committed. Three people would have been killed by violence at sea. The last victim dates from last summer, when a 39-year-old woman from Utah was killed by her husband.

21 of the 21 7 million passengers transporting cruise ships annually die on average, according to NY Daily News. 'And that makes it possible for you to die on board a cruise ship, more than 1 in 100,000.'