Some truly awful crimes go on at sea and the criminal simply walks away. If you can arrange to do it there, you could try your luck. In theory, at the very lea

Some truly awful crimes go on at sea and the criminal simply walks away. If you can arrange to do it there, you could try your luck. In theory, at the very least, the flag state of the vessel should do something about it. In practice, if you pick the right flag state, the right ship, you could get away with it. Some very suspicious deaths go essentially unnoticed on merchant ships, and I know a security chief on a cruise ship who has arrested people for serious sexual assault and the flag state just doesn't care and/or just doesn't have the capability to investigate; they get put ashore at the next port and walk away scot-free. It happens, regularly enough that it's not an unusual thing.