Woman missing after falling overboard on Carnival cruise ship
Crews are still searching for a 44-year-old woman who is believed to have fallen overboard from a Mexican Carnival cruise ship.
The five-day cruise left the Port of New Orleans on January 20. The woman is said to have fallen overboard from the Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico on January 22.
Carnival Cruise Line Manager of Corporate Communications Christine de la Huerta told US broadcaster Fox 6 it was reported the woman was "seen going overboard".
Carnival’s CARE team has been in touch with the woman’s family, de la Huerta said.
Crew members launched rescue boats in the water and scanned the waters for the passenger. The master of the ship also made regular updates on the search while crew members have been showing passengers a photograph of the missing guest, Cruise Law News reported.
The ship was later released from the search and rescue area and continued to its intended port in Cozumel by mid-morning.
The woman was seen falling overboard from the ship. Source: Carnival Cruise Lines
Mexican authorities are now leading the search and rescue operation by sea and air.
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The news follows the death of a woman on another Carnival ship, Elation, when she reportedly fell two storeys from her balcony.
The woman, who has not been identified, was on board a four-day Bahamas cruise on Carnival Elation. The ship was near Freeport in the Bahamas at the time of her death.
The woman fell from the balcony in her stateroom on the 14th deck of the ship to the 11th deck, the Florida-based company confirmed, which constitutes a two-story fall as the Carnival Elation doesn’t have a 13th deck.
Bahamian law enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US Coast Guard, and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department were all notified of the incident and “are assisting these agencies as the investigation continues,” Carnival Cruise Line spokesman Vance Gulliksen said.
Yahoo7 has contacted Carnival Cruise Lines for comment.
