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Serious crimes at sea
Maritime union Nautilus International has supported the call for a change in law that would require the UK police to investigate all serious crimes involving UK citizens at sea.
The union was responding after there were renewed calls for a UK police investigation into the disappearance of British cruise worker, Rebecca Coriam, who was working on a Bahamas-registered ship off the coast of Mexico when she vanished in 2011.
Nautilus general secretary Mark Dickinson said that a number of crimes at sea are not investigated properly due to the “complex nature of jurisdiction in the global maritime industry, which is made worse due to the lack of regulatory control by some ship registers including many Flags of Convenience”.