Rebecca Coriam: Disappearance on the Disney Wonder

Rebecca Coriam: Disappearance on the Disney Wonder

Crewmember Rebecca Coriam vanished from the cruise ship Disney Wonder off the shore of Mexico on March 22, 2011. She was last noticed in the cruise lounge, where a security camera recorded her having a phone discussion that seemed to be emotional for her. The case of her disappearance remains under inquiry and her details have not been established. Some team members think she went overboard but there's proof that she may still be alive.

Rebecca Coriam, a beautiful girl was born on March 11, 1987. She was from Chester, England. In June 2010, she drove to London to interview for the Disney Cruise job. She was hired and moved to Florida for practice. After four months on tours to the Bahamas, she moved back to England for two months off. When she came back to the job, she was on the Disney Wonder, based in Los Angeles. She traveled all of its ports of visit on the Mexican Riviera and moved through the Panama Canal. Her grandfather died and she came to Chester for two weeks, the final time her family saw her.

She came to Wonder as a new worker. She kept in touch with her family through social media. Six weeks after her return to the job, the day the ship pulled out of Los Angeles, she delivered what would be her last message on Facebook, telling that she would call her parents the second day. Twelve hours went by without getting a phone call and her mum began to concern. Just as she was preparing for bed that night, she got a phone call from the cruise ship informing her that Rebecca had disappeared.

At 9 am PDT, Rebecca had skipped the beginning of her shift. The Wonder was off the shore of Mexico bound for Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas. She wasn't in her cabin or anywhere else on the ship and didn't reply to the ship's papers. The only camera video of her was at 5:45 am. She was on the mobile and visually disturbed. A young man walks up and asks if she's alright and she replies with "Yeah, fine".

The team checked the ship but discovered no clue of her. The US Coast Guard and the Mexico Navy searched the water but also discovered zero. The Wonder is listed in the Bahamas so an investigator from the Royal Bahamas Police Force flew out to the ship to start an inquiry once the ship was back in Los Angeles. He was noted to have begun "several days of onboard investigations".

Rebecca's parents were flown out from England to join the ship when it came back. They joined the Bahamian detective and told he informed them he had wasted only one day onboard investigating before returning home. The investigator also said him he had questioned only a few team members and none of the passengers. They said Disney kept them in a car with blacked-out windows and took them on board via a little-used side door after all the passengers had left. The Wonder's captain expressed his condolences and gave his assumption that Rebecca had been washed overboard by a wave while at the staff pool, an assumption they questioned due to the high walls around it. After that, they were taken to a discussion with Disney administrators and the woman Rebecca had been talking to on the phone.

A few weeks after the Coriams came home, in early May, they got an email from Rebecca's bank reporting that there had been activity on one of her accounts in the weeks since the her missing. Although they were inquired by police to keep the facts confidential, they were nevertheless positive. "The truth that her credit card's been utilized could only mean someone has snatched it or she's still alive," her dad told. Later the Coriams were able to tell that the email warned them that someone had attempted to access the account on 19 April. They were not informed of it but later discovered paperwork among Rebecca's belongings that related the account to her. Still, they could not discover the real card. In September Rebecca's uncle told the password to her Facebook account had been changed by someone they don't know.

On the day before the anniversary of her missing, her father received a message from a woman who declared she had seen Rebecca with a dark-haired man on the street in Venice the last August. The woman told she was "85% sure" it was Rebecca and noticing the family's website had inspired her memory. "It was just an email but it appeared valid," told her uncle. "It was very disturbing for everyone to believe she could be out there around after all this time." Still, he wondered how she could have gotten there without her visa, which had been among the belongings her parents had found from her quarters.

Did she meet foul play on the ship? Did a fellow crew member hurt her? Is she still alive and out there somewhere?