Why do you hate cruiseliners so much, Netflix?
In a span of just slightly longer than one year, Netflix has released the definitive documentaries on three of the greatest (read: worst) cruise-ship disasters of our time: Amy Bradley Is Missing, Trainwreck: Poop Cruise and Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea. It’s like Ted Sarandos is some sort of landlubber.
The Hollywood Reporter has extensively covered Amy Bradley Is Missing, released on July 16, 2025. For those spared the true-crime horror story, to summarize: In 1998, 23-year-old Amy Bradley vanished overnight from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship she and her family were vacationing on. A search of the ship found no trace of Bradley, leading officials to believe she likely jumped or fell overboard on the way to Curaçao. Her body was never found, however, and in the ensuing decades multiple people have reported seeing Bradley alive on several area islands. Amy Bradley Is Missing serves up compelling evidence that she may have instead been trafficked off the boat.
Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, released on June 24, 2025, chronicled the absolutely disgusting — and legitimately dangerous — goings-on from the 2013 Carnival Triumph disaster. The ship departed from Galveston, Texas headed toward Cozumel, Mexico on a four-day pleasure trip, though it turned out to be anything but that. When an engine fire knocked out power and plumbing for five days, 4,000 passengers were stranded with overflowing sewage — including, yes, poop — spoiled food and unbearable heat. No one died, thank goodness, but it was a horrible ordeal.
