Crime Takes a Vacation: Sea Marshals and Criminal Jurisdiction Over High Seas Cruise Ship Crimes

The experiences of cruise ship passengers are influenced by cinematic representations and intensified and (re)produced by cruise operators. This paper conceptualises cinematic cruising as a phenomenon of reel and real spaces between imagination and experience for pleasure on the high seas. To date, the influence of cinematic representations on the experience of cruise passengers has not yet been studied in detail. To address this, our argument builds on the comparability of cinemas and cruise ships. They share similar characteristics as modern and postmodern places, as heterotopias, and as places of dreams. Both are places of illusion, places of compensation, and places where one can escape from everyday life; they take moviegoers and passengers to their places of desire. The following analysis illustrates the impact that films, television series and docu-series have on passengers’ imaginations who physically experience film-like situations on cruise ships. When compared to cinemas, the perception there is not limited to just audiovisual factors. Building on this, cinematic cruising might fulfil the dreams, desires, and longings of passengers, at least on the level of imagination.

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Terrorism on the High Seas: The Achille Lauro, Piracy and the IMO Convention on Maritime Safety

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2203189 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 82 (2) ◽

pp. 269-310 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Malvina Halberstam

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Blow Up ◽

The United States ◽

Cruise Ship ◽

Maritime Safety ◽

Rescue Mission ◽

Palestine Liberation Organization ◽

Port Said ◽

High Seas

On October 7, 1985, the Achille Lauro, an Italian-flag cruise ship, was seized while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said. The hijackers, members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), had boarded the ship in Genoa, posing as tourists. They held the ship’s crew and passengers hostage, and threatened to kill the passengers unless Israel released 50 Palestinian prisoners. They also threatened to blow up the ship if a rescue mission was attempted. When their demands had not been met by the following afternoon, the hijackers shot Leon Klinghoffer, a Jew of U.S. nationality who was partly paralyzed and in a wheelchair, and threw his body and wheelchair overboard. The United States characterized the seizure as piracy, a position that has been supported by some commentators and opposed by others.

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The Enrica Lexie Incident: Law of the Sea and Immunity of State Officials Issues

The Italian Yearbook of International Law Online ◽

10.1163/22116133-02201002 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 1-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Natalino Ronzitti

Keyword(s):

Military Personnel ◽

Law Of The Sea ◽

Indian Coast ◽

Fishing Vessel ◽

Criminal Jurisdiction ◽

Functional Immunity ◽

High Seas

This article examines the case of the Enrica Lexie, a commercial ship having on board military personnel engaging in anti-piracy duties who was involved in an incident with persons on a fishing vessel off the Indian coast. It takes into consideration India’s claim to exercise its criminal jurisdiction over the Italian marines indicted of having killed two Indian fishermen, the judgments passed by India’s courts and the multiple aspects of the ensuing controversy between India and Italy. It is argued that the two marines enjoy functional immunity, even if it is admitted that India has jurisdiction over the case. The article concludes that new conventional law is needed for incidents like that of the Enrica Lexie paralleling Article 97 UNCLOS on collisions on the high seas.

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