Rapes are by far the most common crimes on cruise ships. The United States is the country that best accounts for crimes that occur on the high seas. A total of 220 people have acknowledged having suffered sexual assaults on ships flying the United States flag, according to the latest study by the Department of Transportation of the country. 20% of the victims were crew members. With more than 12 million North American passengers inside, these crimes have the peculiarity that the victims lack the special legal and psychological assistance that they would enjoy on land.
In the United States, the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act requires companies to record suspected crimes committed on board and to make information on nine crime categories available to the public and the FBI. the most frequent ones on board: homicides, suspicious deaths, attacks with serious damage, kidnappings, sexual assaults also against minors and with the use of drugs to neutralize the victim, fires or damages against ships, robberies greater than 10,000 dollars and disappearances.
Murder is committed on the great ocean liner off the high seas, the new Netflix series. Who will be the murderer on this ship full of passengers? All of them travel from Europe to America in search of a better future, two sisters, Carolina (Alejandra Onieva) and Eva (Ivana Baquero), as different as they are inseparable; a handsome officer, Nicolás Salas (Jon Kortajarena), whom fate has placed in the wrong place.
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