Cases involving injuries to cruise ship passengers may include injuries, deaths, missing passengers who apparently fell in the ocean, passengers being hit by falling objects, food poisoning, being thrown by rough seas due to the neglect of the captain and nearly every other conceivable type of injury possible on land can exist on cruise ships. Injuries also occur when passengers leave the ship to visit ports of call. Cruise ships arrange and promote tours, trips, scuba, fishing and other activities and sometimes they do not check out or monitor the safety of these companies that provide the services the cruise ship sells to the passengers.
Desert Hot Springs, also known as DHS, is a city in Coachella Valley, Desert Empire, Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 16,582 at the 2000 census. The city had seen rapid development and high population growth since 1980 when it had 2,500 residents, to become a city with an estimated 25,000 residents in the year 2008.