Dear Members and Friends of ICV...

It was just four years ago this month that a few families got together and
formed ICV. Since then, our organization has grown and gone around the
world.  Based upon recent developments, the need for our organization is now
even more far-reaching.  Recent questionable activities of the cruise lines
include the following:

    1.  Offering unlimited drinks for one price on certain cruise ships.
(Excess alcohol is often involved in certain crimes, etc)  

    2.  Offering what's being marketed as "Cougar" cruises.  (A "Cougar" is
basically an older women looking to have sexual relations with a younger
men.)

    3.  In an effort to keep as much revenue as possible within the cruise
company itself including that generated by  excursions, Royal Caribbean is
taking tourists to a "private beach" in Haiti just 60 miles from one of the
worst episodes of human suffering in recent history.  They do this rather
than taking them to a foreign port because the local merchants in those
countries would take business away from the cruise lines. That is the REAL
reason for the "private beach" which is owned by the cruise lines.

Clearly, the cruise industry is doing everything possible for the sake of
profit but not for the sake of safety. During 2009 a record 25 people went
overboard plus untold other crimes such as sexual assaults, robberies and
drugs.  

To deal with all of these various issues, ICV maintains two corporations;
one is for Victim Support and is a 501c3 charity corporation.  The second
corporation is for lobbying efforts and is a 501 c4 corporation.  Because of
the growth and many issues ICV has to deal with, Jamie Barnett has been
elected President of the Victims Support Corporation and will concentrate on
better servings the many victims that come to ICV for support.  Kendall
Carver will become Chairman for both Corporations and will serve as
President of the Lobbying corporation.

We are blessed with the outstanding board members that are listed on our
website.  Included are two former security officers from the cruise line
industry plus representatives from Europe and Australia.  

We are moving forward to have the Senate approve our legislation here in the
United States plus starting an effort to obtain legislation around the
world.  More recently, our members are coming from other countries and new
victim stories are coming from around the world including Norway, Italy and
Brazil.  One of our board members in England, Michael Groves, is starting to
work on our project in Europe and Mark Brimble is addressing this issue in
Australia.  This week, ICV just launched a iPetition for legislation in
Europe.  It can be found at the following link:

www.ipetitions.com/petition/eucruisesafety/   

Your support has made the difference.  



Sincerely,


Kendall Carver and Jamie Barnett