On the Carnival Destiny cruise ship, which left Miami on Saturday, a woman was spotted jumping overboard from the ship in the early morning.
NBC News reported that the passenger, a 29-year-old woman was witnessed by a fellow passenger jumping from the boat at approximately 12:10 a.m.
The crew started a search and resuce mission immediately to find the woman who jumped overboard, NBC News reported. She was found and broght on board and treated in the medical center on thie ship.
After that the woman was taken to a hospital on land for further treatment. The ship wich was on a Carribean cruise route, is a five day trip that is scheduled to return on Thursday. They had to reroute to Key West instead of Ocho Rios, Jamaica because of the incident.
At this time it is not clear what her motive was or if it was an attempted suicide and her name has remained anonymous.
Passengers jumping or falling off cruise ships accidentally is something that isn't as infrequent as one might assume. TravelersToday previously reported In September, a Florida woman fell off a cruise ship and went missing. The 21-year-old was on a Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas ship 47 miles from Fort Lauderdale, Florida when she fell off the ship.
In February another incident of a British man falling off an Allure of the Seas ship on its way to Cozumel, Mexico was reported. The man was noticed missing after he did not respond to pages from cruise ship personel.
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