A 41-year-old man is missing after falling overboard over the weekend on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship bound for the Bahamas, authorities said.
The Coast Guard received a call at 7:17 p.m. about the passenger, who fell from the ship about 127 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina, Petty Officer Vincent Moreno told The Post and Courier.
“A guest crossed the line on Vision of the Seas. The ship and crew immediately reported the incident to local authorities and launched a search and rescue mission,” a company representative told The Post in an email.
“For privacy reasons of the guest and their family, we have no additional details to share,” the statement added on Monday.
The Coast Guard deployed a C-130 Hercules aircraft from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and another C-130 crew responded from Clearwater, Florida, to relieve the first.
A 41-year-old passenger fell overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas cruise ship on its voyage from Baltimore to the Bahamas. Courtesy of Coli Schappi Passengers watch rescue efforts after a 41-year-old man fell overboard. Courtesy of Coli Schappi
But on Monday morning, the agency announced it had suspended the search after scouring more than 1,625 square miles for eight hours, WCBD reported.
The missing man was aboard Royal Caribbean’s “Perfect Day, 8-Night Bahamas Vacation Cruise,” which departed from Baltimore on Friday, passengers told the Post and Courier.
Jake Utzinger, a 21-year-old film student from New Jersey who was on vacation with his girlfriend’s family, said he was lying in bed around 7:45 p.m. when the captain announced that a passenger had fallen over the side. rail.
“I instantly felt nauseous upon learning that one of our traveling companions had been lost at sea,” Utzinger told the newspaper.
He said he, his girlfriend and other passengers ran to the pool deck to provide “an extra set of eyes” on the search and rescue effort.
The vision of the seas. SOPA/LightRocket Images via Getty Images
Another passenger, Colin Schappi, told WCBD he heard the announcement “Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! Starboard! — a call to the crew indicating an overboard emergency — around 7:15 p.m.
“We were wondering what was going on with that,” he said.
Passenger Colin Schappi said he heard a distress call alerting the crew. WCBD-TV
Crews stopped the ship, set up a strobe lamp and searched for the passenger for six hours before resuming the trip around 2 a.m.
“It will definitely be difficult to continue this journey knowing that a family is missing their loved one,” Utzinger told the news outlet.
Vision of the Seas’ next stop will be Port Canaveral, Florida, after which it will sail through the Bahamas before returning to Baltimore on Saturday.
The Coast Guard said it suspended its search. Courtesy of Coli Schappi
The 915-foot-long ship, which has a total capacity of 2,000 guests and 700 crew, made its first voyage in 1988, according to Royal Caribbean’s website.
In August, a Royal Caribbean passenger fell overboard from the Wonder of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, while off the coast of Cuba during a voyage from Florida.
The passenger was identified as Sigmund Ropich, 19, a Washington state college student known to loved ones as “boiboi.” At the time he was on vacation with friends.
Earlier that month, an Indian woman died after she apparently jumped from the company’s Spectrum of the Seas.
The Vision of the Seas was on an “8-night Bahamas vacation cruise with a perfect day.” Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Reeta Sahani, 64, was reported missing after her husband, Jakesh Sahani, 70, woke up in the middle of the night and noticed she was not in their cabin.
In June, a 42-year-old woman was rescued after she fell from Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas about 25 miles south of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic during her voyage from Florida.
Other recent incidents occurred on the Carnival Magic, Carnival Elation and Emerald Princess cruise ships.
On average, 19 people fall overboard on cruise ships each year, and of those, only about four are rescued, according to a 2020 study commissioned by industry trade group Cruise Lines International Association.
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