Just days after popular streaming service Netflix debuted an episode of its disaster-oriented series Trainwreck covering the infamous “Poop Cruise” aboard Carnival Triumph, a new show will highlight another scary cruise experience.
The upcoming three-part true crime documentary miniseries “Amy Bradley Is Missing” will offer an in-depth look at the young woman’s disappearance from Rhapsody of the Seas in March 1998 and the nearly 30 years of investigative efforts that have so far come up empty.
The show will premiere on Netflix on July 16, 2025, exploring different leads, sightings, and efforts to find Amy Lynn Bradley, who was 23 when she vanished from a family cruise. Today, she would be 51, but her fate remains unknown.
Bradley was enjoying a 7-night Caribbean sailing in March 1998 with her parents when she disappeared. The ship had departed Puerto Rico and was planning to visit Aruba, Curacao, St. Maarten, and St. Thomas.
In the early morning hours of March 24, however, Bradley vanished seemingly without a trace. She and her younger brother, Brad, had visited the ship’s nightclub and gotten back to their stateroom at about 3:30 a.m.
By 6 a.m. when the family was getting up to get ready for breakfast before their day in Curacao, she was gone.
Search efforts aboard what was then one of the newest Royal Caribbean ships were immediately initiated, but Amy was not located and guests were permitted to debark in Curacao. Local authorities were contacted and search efforts continued, in case she had gone overboard.
No evidence of her disappearance was ever found, either on the ship or in the water, and only a polo shirt and a pair of sandals remained.
The new documentary will feature interviews with FBI investigators, eyewitnesses aboard Rhapsody of the Seas, and the Bradley family through the years as search efforts have continued.
Unconfirmed sightings of Amy in the Caribbean – from a taxi driver in Curacao, in a store restroom in Barbados, and even in a brothel – have all been explored over the years.
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These sightings and other unusual theories about her disappearance will also be discussed in the Netflix special in the hopes that new insights might lead to even more discoveries that could help solve this mystery.
This is not the first time new efforts have been used to attempt to locate Amy or determine what happened to her on what was supposed to have been a happy family vacation celebrating her college graduation.
In 2017, computer-aged photos of Amy were released to try and help find her, but it is difficult to determine what so much time and decades of life experiences would do to a person’s physical appearance.
In June 2024, just after her 50th birthday on May 12, 2024, interest was again renewed to try and find Amy, but no new evidence surfaced.
While officially Amy was declared legally deceased on March 24, 2010 – twelve years after her disappearance – the family has not given up hope.
Her case remains active with the FBI, and a reward of up to $25,000 is available for information that will solve her disappearance.
Cruises Popular on Television
While Amy’s case has been featured in a number of shows, including America’s Most Wanted in May 1999 and Disappeared in 2018, hers isn’t the only cruise-related event to be showcased in different broadcasts.
Of course, the recent release of the “Poop Cruise” episode of Trainwreck has been highlighted, but not all cruise-related shows are negative.
A new UK show will take viewers behind the scenes of Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam and Rotterdam, giving interesting insights about the Pinnacle-class vessels. Both guest experiences and crew insights are part of the new series.
Of course, fun bits of cruise vacations have been seen in episodes of innumerable shows, including the hit comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, British comedy Keeping Up Appearances, and even The Simpsons.
And no one can forget such popular cruise-centric options as The Love Boat, Mighty Cruise Ships, The Suite Life on Deck, and movies like the incomparable Titanic, Poseidon, and Speed 2: Cruise Control.
