Royal Carribbean Cruise Lines tells CBS News that they “were saddened by the passing of one of our guests, worked with authorities on their investigation, and will refrain from commenting any further on pending litigation,” after getting slapped with a lawsuit by the widow of passenger Michael Virgil, 35, who died on board their “Navigator of the Seas” vessel in the Pacific last December after an… altercation with the crew en route from Los Angeles to Ensenada, Mexico.

To call the incident “alcohol-related” might be an understatement as Virgil was alleged to have consumed no fewer than 33 alcoholic beverages prior to the savage struggle with the crew. The nature of these beverage was unspecified but even if we’re talking watered-down screwdrivers with shitty well vodka and/or those lame 8oz Dos Equis that’s still the equivalent of about 17 to 20 real servings. Stumbling back to his cabin, Virgil got lost and became “agitated.” Exactly how “agitated” was not really specified but first the crew tried to physically subdue him, then hit him with “multiple” cans of pepper spray. Then at some point the captain got involved and ordered the ship’s sick bay staff to inject him with a powerful anti-psychotic called Haloperidol. And then Virgil died.

The lawsuit specifically calls out the cruise line’s all-you-can-drink package as being the main contributor to Virgil’s death, the second such complaint filed in recent months to identify that very obvious factor in a fatal incident. The family of a 66 year-old woman – who fell overboard and drowned during an October 2024 Taylor Swift-themed cruise off Florida – accused the line of the same negligence in a similar lawsuit. “Because of that drink package, she did overdo it, trying to maybe get her money’s worth. She was completely intoxicated in a way I haven’t seen before. It saddens me that that is my last memory of her,” said Megan Klewin of her late mother, Dulcie White.