Man overboard! Yet another cruise ship passenger seems to have gone overboard. A 65-year-old Canadian cruise ship passenger disappeared from a Royal Caribbean ship and now crews are on the search around the British Caribbean territory.
It is believed that the man may have fallen around dawn on Tuesday when the ship was 13 miles northwest of Grand Cayman. Staff and witnesses on the Independence of the Seas cruise ship were interviewed and police are continuing to investigate, USA Today reports.
"The Port Authority broadcasted an appeal to all marine traffic to be on the lookout for the missing passenger," police said according to USA Today.
The man's wife reported him missing on Tuesday morning while the ship prepared to dock at George Town Harbor. She told police that she and her husband went to bed at 1 a.m. but he wasn't there when she woke up six hours later. The investigation was turned over to local authorities. The man's wife left the ship in Grand Cayman and it continued with the rest of its trip.
Police say they searched the entire 15-deck, 1,112-foot long ship and watch closed-circuit camera video before the ship took off. The Independence of the Seas is currently on a six-night cruise that left from Fort Lauderdale on Sunday and stops in Jamaica and Haiti. The Independence of the Seas can carry up to 4,375 passengers and 1,300 staff members.
This is the second Canadian passenger to go missing from a Royal Caribbean ship in a week. A 26-year-old man, Tien Phuoc Nguyen jumped from the Adventures of the Seas ship near a Puerto Rican island on Saturday. The search for him came to a close on Monday and no body was found.
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