What happened to Amy Bradley is still one of life’s biggest mysteries almost three decades on, but a shipbuilder has weighed in on the most logical theory.
The 23-year-old disappeared from the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in March 1998, and nobody knows her whereabouts.
There are all kinds of theories, but the shipbuilder who builds Royal Caribbean cruise ships for a living thinks she most likely went overboard, and that’s the sad reality.
Shipbuilder’s theory of what happened to Amy Bradley
In a Reddit post, the shipbuilder revealed they are currently building the Icon series of cruise liners in Meyer Turku, and believe that Amy Bradley either jumped or fell overboard.
“When I saw the Netflix documentary I was baffled that they did not give more airtime to the actual cause of her early demise. She fell-off/jumped. This is more common than you think in cruises,” they said.
“They argued that the only reason some people don’t believe this theory is that a body was not washed ashore. There was no body left to wash ashore.”
However, never finding Amy’s body doesn’t prove that she didn’t fall overboard. In fact, 72% of people who go overboard from cruise ships are never found, based on data from the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA).
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If she did fall overboard, this is why her body was never found
The shipbuilder then used some very technical cruise ship knowledge to explain the mechanics of the ship that Amy disappeared from, and why this means her body could have never been found.
“Let me remind you that Rhapsody of The Seas is pushed forward by two fixed blade propellors (weighing 75t each). At 20knots (what the ship was probably moving at) they rotate at round 100rpm. That is a sharp, 75t blender blade travelling at 80km/h slicing anything and anyone to fine pieces enjoyed by sharks, fish alike,” they explained.
“Now how exactly would she end up in the propellers? When falling close the side of the ship you can be dragged into the engines with forces not Michael Phelps could swim away from.”
“Propellers create massive negative pressure zones that are a death warrant. With no ‘man overboard’ sensors existing back then, honestly I believe the version that she unfortunately became fish food 100x more than any trafficking story,” the person continued.
Amy Bradley’s family still believe she was sex trafficked
However, her parents still think their daughter was trafficked into sex work, after they were sent photos of a woman very similar to Amy on a sex work site in September 2005.
The woman was called Jas, and the site was based in the Caribbean. They were analysed by the FBI at the time, who said that the woman in the photos was Amy, but the IP address couldn’t be tracked and nothing ever came of it.
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