Search underway off Chas, SC for man missing on cruise ship News

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• Pilot explains what happens during turbulence and why passengers shouldn’t be afraid
• Coast Guard suspends search for Carnival Cruise Line passenger who went overboard
• Coast Guard no longer searching for passenger who jumped from Royal Caribbean cruise
• Many people were grateful for the explainer, saying it should be played to passengers when turbulence happens
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• 'I raised hell': Why Tyler Doyle's family wanted SLED to investigate his case
• Father of cruise passenger, 20, who jumped overboard ship speaks out for first time since the incident

Cruise lines have specific protocols designed for crew to take quick action during man-overboard incidents, the CLIA spokesperson said. The Coast Guard said Monday that it has since called off its search for the missing person. A 41-year-old man fell overboard while aboard Royal Caribbean's Vision of the Seas cruise ship, which was headed to the Bahamas. According to the Washington Post, about 386 people were reported to have gone overboard on the major cruise lines between 2000 to 2020. “The Carnival Care Team is providing support to the guest's companion and traveling party who are on board,” the spokesperson added. After a man jumped off a cruise ship into the Bahama Ocean, his father has said he believes he is still alive in the sea.

Pilot explains what happens during turbulence and why passengers shouldn’t be afraid

The best-case scenario is that someone on the ship spots the person going overboard and immediately initiates a rescue operation. This was the case in July, when a woman fell off the 10th deck of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship and was rescued by crew members in a dramatic, nearly hour-long rescue. The statement read, "#Breaking @USCG crews are searching for a 20-year-old man who went overboard from the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship 57 miles from Great Inagua this morning. USCG Cutter Seneca and Air Station Miami HC-144 crews are conducting the search." The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search on Thursday for a Royal Caribbean cruise ship passenger who went overboard, the agency confirmed in a news release. The father of the 20-year-old passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship last Thursday in a reportedly drunken, impulsive leap believes his son is still alive nearly a week later. “The ship’s crew immediately launched a search and rescue effort alongside the US Coast Guard, who has taken over the search,” the statement reads.

Coast Guard suspends search for Carnival Cruise Line passenger who went overboard

In December, a cruise passenger died after falling from the MSC Meraviglia, about 18 miles off the coast of Port Canaveral, Florida. It's been a week since the incident, and Grimes said the experience has opened his eyes. While dressing in a pair of pants he planned to wear on the cruise, Grimes said he found a fortune cookie fortune in the pants pocket that read "Life's a beach. Enjoy the waves." The 28-year-old from Lafayette, Alabama, was with 18 relatives on a Carnival cruise to Cozumel, Mexico, when somehow, he ended up overboard after a day of fun. The 28-year-old man said he was determined to make it out of the Gulf of Mexico alive, calling it the experience of a lifetime.

Coast Guard no longer searching for passenger who jumped from Royal Caribbean cruise

"I can't float myself, even when I'm trying to. So there had to be ... the Lord was with me while I was out there because something was holding me up the whole time I was passed out." Kuhn said that he didn’t expect the passenger to be found alive and that he was pleasantly surprised he was wrong. "I wanted to see my family and I was dead set on making it out of there. I was never accepting that this is it, this is going to be the end of my life. I'm 28 years old. I'm too young. This is not going to be it," Grimes said.

Many people were grateful for the explainer, saying it should be played to passengers when turbulence happens

The missing 28-year-old man, who hasn’t been identified, was with his sister at the Carnival Valor’s bar at 11 p.m. Wednesday when he took a bathroom break and never came back, the outlet reported. The crew member was noted missing when the ship docked at Fort Lauderdale Saturday. The ship was sailing eastward along the Florida Keys at the tail end of a six-night Caribbean cruise when the incident happened. The Vision of the Seas is a 915-foot long by 105-foot wide ship with a total capacity of 2,000 guests and 700 crew members, according to Royal Caribbean's website.

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I believe he is alive,” Francel Parker said to the local Florida paper Wednesday. In the past few years, most cruise lines have enacted onboard safety measures and surveillance systems to help reduce the risk of overboard deaths. The 18-story ship was sailing between Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island when the as-yet-unidentified man jumped off one of the decks. The Carnival Valor had been at sea for only a day when calls came over the loudspeaker asking a certain passenger to please report to customer service.

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Cruise staff will likely review the ship's security footage to determine if, when, and where a passenger has gone overboard. Royal Caribbean said it “immediately” launched search boats to look for the 20-year-old and alerted the Coast Guard, which later took over the search. Francel told the Daily Sun that he threw six life rings off the ship in hopes of saving his son before the massive vessel was able to come to a stop about 20 minutes later. “There was a lot of yelling, and the crew was alerted immediately,” Deborah Morrison told The Post. But Francel, who runs an AC business in Port Charlotte, told the local newspaper that he wasn’t arguing with Levion and that his son wasn’t trying to take his own life.

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Based on recent man-overboard incidents, here's what passengers can expect if someone goes overboard during their cruise. Individual incidents and exact procedures followed by cruise lines may vary. The maritime distress signal is used by some cruise lines to alert crew members that a person has gone overboard; an unfortunate turn of events that has happened at least six times in the past three months. According to the outlet, the ship stopped and the crew used a strobe light to search for the passenger for six hours. Utzinger said he and other guests headed to the pool deck to try to help with the search.

The low recovery rate has prompted debate on whether or not cruise ships should be required to install man-overboard detection systems that automatically alert crew members when a person goes overboard, instead of retroactively checking security footage. One passenger told a California news station, KABC-TV, that he heard someone say, “Man overboard, man overboard port side” on the ship’s speakers. He said that when he looked over the balcony of his room, he saw crew members tossing life preservers into the water.

“There was a lot of yelling, and the crew was alerted immediately,” another passenger,  Deborah Morrison, told The Post. Additionally, a 42-year-old passenger sailing onboard Mariner of the Seas in June 2023 was rescued after going overboard while sailing south of Punta Cana en route to Willemstad, Curaçao. In a statement Wednesday, Royal Caribbean confirmed a passenger went overboard Sunday close to the Dominican Republic. Grimes said he treaded water for nearly 20 hours after falling overboard on Thanksgiving Eve -- battling jelly fish, rip currents and shark-infested waters before being airlifted by the U.S. "All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this incident and our thoughts and prayers are with the team member's family at this difficult time," the cruise line said in a statement.

The Coast Guard released the ship from search and rescue efforts and advised its captain to continue on to Norfolk, Virginia, the spokesperson said. The vessel was on a round-trip sailing from Norfolk to the Bahamas at the time of the incident, according to CruiseMapper. A Carnival cruise ship passenger fell overboard into the Gulf of Mexico and was found alive against all odds on Thanksgiving Day — more than 15 hours after vanishing, officials said Friday.

But Francel explained that he wasn’t actually arguing with his son and that there’s no way his son was trying to take his own life. Started in 2010, Royal Caribbean Blog offers daily coverage of news and information related to the Royal Caribbean cruise line along with other relevant topics of cruising, such as entertainment, news, photo updates and more. "Three medical emergencies and now a man overboard," passenger Joshua Reynolds wrote on Facebook.