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.
Mountain Center is an unincorporated community in west central Riverside County, California. It lies along State Route 74 in the southern division of San Bernardino National Forest, just north of Lake Hemet. Mountain Center lies midway between Hemet and Palm Desert, and it is southeast of the city of Riverside, the county seat of Riverside County. Its elevation is 4,518 feet (1,377 m), and it is located at 33°42′15″N 116°43′33″W / 33.70417°N 116.72583°W / 33.70417; -116.72583 (33.7041889, -116.7258522). Although Mountain Center is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 92561. According to the 2000 Census, Mountain Center had a population in 2000 of 1,495. The community is 85.2 per cent white, 11.5 per cent Hispanic, 5.4 per cent American Indian, and 0.9 per cent Asian. Non-Hispanic whites represent 82.2 per cent of the population