Howard Crager
Cruise Ship Passenger Death
Carnival Liberty - May 24, 2009
Howard Crager
Date: May 24, 2009
Age: 92
Location: Caribbean
Hometown: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Cruise Line: Carnival Cruise Lines
Ship: Carnival Liberty
Details
Howard Crager, was a retired Lt. Colonel in the Army Reserve, where he served for 27 years. He had been sailing the Caribbean aboard Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Liberty in cabin #7258 on the American Memorial Weekend, when he suddenly passed away.
After the death of his wife of 50 years, he enrolled in Oral Roberts University to finally pursue his life-long dream of obtaining a college degree.
Crager had moved to Ottawa, Canada and completed his degree in Political Science, graduating from Ottawa University at the age of 80.
He then moved to Florida where he had been fishing, golfing and sailing for the prior five years.
He died while on a cruise in the Caribbean, only one of many he taken in his lifetime.
Their daughter says, "Their most infamous trip was in 1989 (age 72) to Antarctica aboard the Bahia Paraiso, an Argentine fuel supply ship that sank after hitting underwater rocks. All passengers escaped into the frigid water in inflatable rafts because the life boats were inoperable. It became the worst environmental disaster in the history of Antarctica."
