This day in cruise industry: Eight years ago today, on Sunday, May 24, 2009, Bruce O’Krepki, 18, from Louisiana was on a Memorial Day weekend sailing aboard Carnival Cruise Lines’ Carnival Fantasy.
It was also a high graduation cruise for 30 students from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Hammond, Louisiana. O’Krepki was known to his fellow students as, “Bruce “Moose” O’Krepki #337″.
O’Krepki went overboard around 9:45 on the first night of the cruise. Carnival Fantasy was sailing from New Orleans, Louisiana to Key West, Florida at the time O’Krepki went missing. Read more
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