There is a lot more crime occurring on cruise ships than most people have a clue about.
Do research on "missing cruise ship passengers". There are about 49 missing passengers per year, if memory serves me correctly. The "causes" are largely officially man overboard or unknown. There's more going on there, do the research.
There may well be a good deal of crime on cruise ships, but your statistics on alleged "overboard" cases seems a bit exagerated.
Cruisejunkie dot com has a rather comprehensive list and only shows 200 cases between 2000 to 2013, which averages out to about 15 overboard cases per year. See their list of "overboard" cases at
http://www.cruisejunkie.com/Overboard.htmlAccording to the
US Maritime Administration in 2011 there were 71.8 million passenger nights booked on north american cruises alone. So 15 passengers per year missing and presumed overboard doesn't sound like too bad of odds.
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