The night and the sea. Set of a romantic memory of midsummer or nightmare with no awakening? Also on board a ship cruising the sea and the night may be the perfect synthesis of the infinite and the unknown, to get lost in the ecstasy ol'abisso swallowing, the wave that is going el'onda, the sea port and that takes.

Frederick Trivellin the sea took it away forever, has returned only a corpse. He was a boy of 28, Alghero, second engineer officer of a cruise ship, Costa Atlantica, with a cheerful and sincere smile that lit each photo in her profile on Facebook. The night of 17 September this year, en route to Barcelona, flew down from a deck of the ship, the body was found in the sea at dawn.

S death is a tragedy but it is also a mystery, had just been promoted, was happy, the family rules out suicide. But how is it possible that an experienced sailor from falling into the sea from his ship and drown? A mystery for all, a tragedy for the parents and friends. And mysteries and tragedies of the cruise ships they could tell many, too many.

"A bizarre and bad luck," This is the summary of the facts known authors such as Bruno and Paolo Conte Lauzi that told the story of a man: "wave upon wave, I have fallen from the ship while on board was the dance." The protagonist of the song will be brought from the sea up to Never Land, the paradise, the sinking perfect and it would be nice to hope that this was the reality for many names that fill the pages of the web 'International Association of Victims Cruises. Agencies which arises from the desperate determination of two American families, the Carvers and Smith, marked by a similar tragic event.

In 2004 Merrian Carver, age 40,  disappeared from a cruise in Alaska, from the second day at sea will no longer use his cabin. None inform anyone. The cruise ends, the cabin is cleared, the discarded personal items and ship again. The family will spend more than a month to have confirmation from the shipping company on board and also the actual details of his disappearance. Nobody knows what happened to Merrian Carter and nobody knows what happened to George A. Smith, 26 years, in the midst of his honeymoon in the Mediterranean. Disappears from the vessel, witnesses say they heard screams and sounds of a scuffle in the cabin, but nobody knows who George has argued that day and what is really happened. The bride and landed in Turkey while the ship continued its tour, probably with a murderess on board. These two families and many of the association complained about the difficulties encountered in handling inquiries, complaints and issues regarding the jurisdiction of certain events.

The right to board a cruise ship is determined by the flag flying on board, or the jurisdiction is limited to the country where the vessel is registered. Many luxury cruise ships using "flags of convenience" of other nations, perhaps of Bolivia, which has no outlet to sea but apparently it is "useful" to the owners for other reasons. The association for these very reasons promotes and supports a campaign for a bill requiring cruise ships, regardless of the nationality of their flag at the Coast Guard and the FBI to report any crime or alleged crime has been consumed on board.

Currently, if the crimes are committed in international waters, cruise ships not flying the American flag have no obligation to report, nor are they obliged to investigate. Generally restrict themselves to clean the cabins and bring down any surviving relatives, the bodies are and if we continue, more or less happily, the tourist route planned. And so you lose track of Amy Linn Bradley of 23 years, probably to smoke a cigarette out of the cabin of a cruise ship in the Caribbean and no one has ever see her again. Neither alive nor dead. Parents offer a prize of 250,000 dollars to anyone who can provide information of any kind on what may have happened that morning on board the ship.

The approximate number of these incidents on board cruise ships are published by another site by name, really unusual, but quite explicit: Cruise Junkie, Addicted to heroin but not cruise. The author of the site - Ross Klein - is actually a university professor, a traveler who apparently is trying to clean up enough to devote much of his energies to denouncing the cruise tourism industry in all its alleged atrocities.

In his Web site and its books dedicated to the dark side, unknown, not visible does not neglect any aspect of the cruise industry and being a sociologist evaluate any possible consequence. From the environmental and waste management of these floating cities, from bureaucracy to those working on board, accidents involving ships to those involving people. He collected so a casuist annual passengers killed, drowned or disappeared from cruise ships around the world, both tourists and workers. But the rapes or attempted rape involving both tourists and workers. It is a 'J'accuse "supported by strong and disturbing number since 2000, the international press has reported 124 cases of people falling into the sea, accidents or suicides, and many mysteries for almost all circumstances and conditions have remained unknown and many have never found the corpse.

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that specifically concerns the cruise ship dock or intending to sail from any port in America, regardless of the nationality of the flag flying at the stern.

The Act provides for the obligation to also report immediately to American authorities for any crime on board ships and the recording of cases of sexual violence, falls from the ship, suicides, murders, disappearances aboard a vessel to be collected on a website Coast Guard. These provisions are in addition more technical issues relating to security measures to be adopted: peepholes to the cabins, security cameras, intervention procedures designed to preserve any possible evidence of a crime on board. The law will now go to the Senate before being finally enacted by President Obama to protect and defend the safety of passengers on cruise ships.

It remains the charm and melancholy of memory described by Fellini in his Amarcord, with boats waiting for the passage of the fabulous Rex, with the lights of the liner which is reflected in the sea mingling with the bright reflection of the stars. And we hope that somewhere in the depths of international waters, who has never gone back home can at least rest in peace.