Storm Chasers Star Joel Taylor's Died of Overdose

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• The much-criticized trip is the company's 30th-year celebration.
• Heartbreaking video shows cruise ship passenger swimming, fishing with friends week before fatal jump
• Passenger dies aboard 9-month Royal Caribbean cruise around the world
• Don’t avoid drug education on 4/20 day
• Royal Caribbean passenger dies aboard 9-month world cruise: report
• U.S. Coast Guard ends search for Louisiana teen who went overboard in the Bahamas

The critique of – Atlantis Events’ cruises on Royal Caribbean ships have been plagued by arrests, drug use, passengers going overboard, alpha-alpha-alpha codes & drug-related shipboard deaths over the years. –  seems a little pointed, but again somewhat true and resonates with the gay cruises, but then again, “those kind of cruises” are always under a spotlight and judged heavily even before the ship leaves the port. According to a November 2020 study in the International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health, covering data from 2000 to 2019, 623 people died aboard cruise ships, with 89 percent being passengers and 11 percent crew members. The majority of these passenger deaths were among U.S. residents, and the leading causes included falls overboard or onto lower decks, suicide, murder, and terror attacks, unspecified natural causes, and cardiac incidents. According to a November 2020 study in the International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health, covering data from 2000 to 2019, 623 people died aboard cruise ships, with 89 percent being passengers and 11 percent crew members. We are actively providing support and assistance to the guest’s loved ones at this time.

The much-criticized trip is the company's 30th-year celebration.

Organizers vowed to implement various social distancing methods but still sold the ship at almost full capacity. Cruises to Antarctica are becoming more popular, even though rough seas and a harsh climate make the trip more dangerous. Four Americans died in three separate incidents during cruises there last November, so the Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. A passenger on Royal Caribbean International’s nine-month Ultimate World Cruise has died. Adita, who is on the ship with her husband, has gained more than 65,000 followers on TikTok and frequently posts about her days aboard the Ultimate World Cruise.

Heartbreaking video shows cruise ship passenger swimming, fishing with friends week before fatal jump

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According to Cruise Law News, he may have left a suicide note before jumping into the water. Royal Caribbean did not immediately respond to a Post request for more information on the death. But the cruise line did confirm that a passenger died in a statement to People. For months, Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate World Cruise has captivated the public like a social media reality show, with reports on storms, coronavirus outbreaks, canceled port calls and interpersonal drama.

Passenger dies aboard 9-month Royal Caribbean cruise around the world

Coast Guard in San Juan, Puerto Rico was notified today in the afternoon by the Royal Caribbean Harmony of the Seas cruise ship that they had a death on board,” Ricardo Castrodad, public affairs officer for the Coast Guard’s San Juan sector, tells to PEOPLE. In November, two people reportedly died while aboard an Atlantis cruise. A spokesperson for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines confirmed the death in a statement to The Advocate. Michigan Democrats have advanced several key LGBTQ rights priorities since they took unified control of the legislature in 2023. A long-stalled comprehensive anti-discrimination law was passed last year, as did a conversion therapy ban. Last month the legislature updated family law to make surrogacy easier for all couples, including same-sex couples.

Don’t avoid drug education on 4/20 day

A bill to ban the “gay panic” defense has passed the state house and was due for a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday. It is our hope that the legislature will pass robust, much-needed updates to this statute,” the statement says. The attorney general’s office sent a statement to the Blade supporting stronger hate crime legislation. Under the senate bill, if the first offense is only a threat, it would be a misdemeanor punishable by one year in prison and up to $1,000 fine. A subsequent offense or first violent hate crime, including stalking, would be a felony that attracts double the punishment. Arbit submitted a new version of the bill (House Bill 5288) that added sections clarifying that misgendering a person, “intentionally or unintentionally” is not a hate crime, although the latest version (House Bill 5400) of the bill omits this language.

Enter your email address below to receive daily email updates including news, giveaways and more. “We offer our sincerest condolences to Cameron Robbins’ family and friends," Spado said. In 2020, a 46-year-old Florida man died after jumping 10 stories from the Oasis of the Seas in Puerto Rico during an Atlantis charter.

"A mostly anonymous commenter wrote in response to his tweet that the death was from a "legit (non-drug related) medical issue. There has been a death onboard the Atlantis Events' 30th Anniversary Cruise on Royal Caribbean's�Oasis of the Seas, the Advocate reported. The U.S. Coast Guard has ended their search for a Louisiana teenager who went overboard during a sunset cruise in the Bahamas on Wednesday night. Several passengers on board have been consistently documenting the journey on TikTok, sharing a peek into life at sea.

Serenade of the Seas boasts 13 decks and 1,073 guest rooms, and it can accommodate over 2,100 guests. The itinerary that Atlantis Events posted to its website notes the ship was scheduled to arrive in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at 7 a.m. Storm Chasers was filmed each year in the area known as Tornado Alley due to the frequency and severity of tornadoes occurring there in the central part of the U.S. Several teams of storm chasers appeared in the series and Taylor joined the cast in early 2008 as part of the team from the website TornadoVideos.Net (TVN) that was led by Timmer. “We chased so many intense storms, and I wish we could have just one more storm chase. We lost a legend,” added Timmer, who attended the University of Oklahoma with Taylor, who studied meteorology.

While a representative said the death was "nothing out of the ordinary," they referred The Advocate to Royal Caribbean for comment on cause of death. According to CBS News reporter David Begnaud, who's been tweeting updates, surveillance video shows a "clean jump" by the man, who dropped 177 feet into the water while the ship was docked just off Puerto Rico's north shore in San Juan Bay. She shares videos updating followers about where the ship is in the world and seemingly trolls her followers with pineapple swag and signs. But she maintained that she and her husband are not swingers in one video. MDMA (also known as ecstasy) along with Zolpidem (a version of Ambien), ketamine (an anesthetic) and MDA (a psychedelic amphetamine) were found in his system at the time of his death, according to the report.

He added that “the rumor mill aboard the ship is saying that he took a fentanyl-laced ecstasy tablet that he purchased on board." Thursday night, Chris Wiggins, a freelance journalist who has written for USA Today, tweeted that he had confirmed a death of "at least one person" on the ship. The cruise line’s Serenade of the Seas ship is currently operating the 274-night sailing, which will visit more than 60 countries and marks Royal Caribbean’s first world cruise. Videos about the sailing proliferated on TikTok following its December departure from Miami, with guests sharing clips from their trip and other users recapping apparent “drama” a la reality TV. Cruise lines have protocols in case a passenger passes away during a sailing, and most of the biggest vessels have morgues where they can store bodies as needed, The Points Guy reported. As previously reported, in 2009 GLAAD board member Spencer Yu, a Los Angeles attorney, died of a heart attack allegedly due to drug use while on Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas.

The 274-night cruise — Royal Caribbean’s longest available — stops in 65 countries and the ship can hold up to 2,476 guests. “I was coming to my room when they were taking the body out so very, very sad for me because I was there to watch,” Adita said from her cabin inside the massive cruise ship. We will always remember him fondly as an incredible meteorologist and driver of ‘The Dominator.’ Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this difficult time,” the Discovery Channel said in a statement about Taylor’s passing. In the 2022 case, The Advocate reported a death aboard the Oasis of the Seas during Atlantis Events’ 30th Anniversary Cruise.

Cruise Law News, a blog that covers the cruise industry, reports at least five deaths in the past decade on Atlantis Events charters. The original video has been deleted but was reposted by another user on Sunday, though it was unclear when the passenger died. Larson was not immediately available for an interview and the Royal Caribbean spokesperson did not share any details about the passenger's identity. Multiple reports have stated that soon after the man jumped overboard, crew members collected guests at muster stations -- places on a ship where passengers assemble during emergencies -- to conduct a roll call in an effort to identify the man. "A guest sailing on board Serenade of the Seas has sadly passed away," a Royal Caribbean spokesperson said in a statement. A newspaper in the Cayman Islands is reporting that a 37 year old passenger aboard Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas died during an Atlantis sponsored cruise.