Man, 35, Falls Overboard on First Cruise, Fiancée Says amid Search

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• Coast Guard officials say man fell overboard 186 miles off Jacksonville
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• Man, 35, Falls Overboard Ship on His 'First Cruise,' Fiancée Says amid Search for Missing Passenger
• Search for man who fell overboard from cruise ship has ended
• Linda Reynolds welcomes Brittany Higgins's 'olive branch', but says she will continue with trial
• Crew ‘frantic’ in their search for missing man

Coast Guard crews have suspended the search for an Australian cruise ship passenger off the coast of Hawaii following a report of a person overboard, officials said Thursday. According to Royal Caribbean, the man who went overboard was a passenger on the ship Vision of the Seas. The ship and crew immediately reported the incident to local authorities and launched a search and rescue mission. A spokesperson for Royal Caribbean said that the crew immediately reported the incident to local authorities who launched a search and rescue mission. "The ship’s crew immediately launched a search and rescue operation and is working closely with local authorities," the spokesperson said. "The U.S. Coast Guard has released the ship from any search and rescue efforts and advised the ship’s captain to continue on its way to Norfolk where it arrived as planned on Tuesday," the spokesperson added.

Coast Guard officials say man fell overboard 186 miles off Jacksonville

"We've been told the coast guard and helicopters are still out searching in the ocean, in the area where the man went." "We saw about five life rings that were floating in the ocean and there were search vessels and lots of lights on the water. 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.

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The ship, which was traveling from Virginia to the Bahamas, began its voyage Thursday but returned on Tuesday morning amid the search for the missing passenger, according to WTKR. Officials are searching for a man who went overboard while traveling on a Carnival cruise ship this week. The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a Virginia man who fell from a cruise ship balcony earlier this week. Tollemache fell overboard while the ship was about 800km south of Kailua-Kona on the west coast of O’ahu, also known as Big Island, at 11pm on Tuesday (Wednesday night AEST). The grieving partner of an Australian man who fell to his suspected death from a cruise ship travelling to Hawaii has shared her devastation over the search being called off. "The search lights were on from the ship's bridge as well, they rapidly deployed their 'runabout' rescue vessel off the ship and then spent the next couple of hours in the water searching around.

Man, 35, Falls Overboard Ship on His 'First Cruise,' Fiancée Says amid Search for Missing Passenger

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Security footage from the Carnival Glory “shows the man jumping off the cruise ship,” according to a Tuesday night update from the Coast Guard. 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.

On Wednesday, an air search with the Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point C-130 Hercules aircrew launched at 7 a.m. A major search operation has ended after a crew member was reported to have gone overboard from a cruise ship off the coast of Kent. Crew members said they immediately reported it to local authorities, which began a search and rescue mission, according to the ship's operator, Royal Caribbean Cruises. Grimes was aboard the five-day cruise with 18 of his family members for Thanksgiving. When he didn't return to his cabin that night, his sister reported him missing. After the Coast Guard released the ship from search and rescue efforts, the 1,004-foot Carnival Magic continued its return trip to Norfolk, Virginia, where it was scheduled to arrive as planned on Tuesday.

Search for man who fell overboard from cruise ship has ended

Cooper said the decision came after discussions with Tollemache’s family and Australian authorities. “They should have kept looking – I don’t understand why they stopped the search,” she said. His girlfriend Celine La Roche said she had been clinging to hopes Tollemache could still be alive. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.

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“We’ll do our best to provide assistance and support to the family (and) out of respect we will not provide any other details,” the captain said. However, Royal Caribbean has quashed the claims, saying the incidents were not connected. Rukavina said he didn’t know whether Tollemache was travelling alone or with family. He said it would not have been hard to jump over the ship’s glass railing. Rukavina claims Tollemache fell from the 15th-floor balcony, about 20m above his room and directly above the main pool area. Loved ones paid tribute to the 35-year-old on social media on Friday, with mother Mandy Tollemache sharing her family’s anguish.

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He said Levion is a skilled diver who works on a commercial fishing boat, and he is demanding to know how his underage son was given alcohol on the four-day cruise to Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island. 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. I believe he is alive,” Francel Parker said to the local Florida paper Wednesday. “He can be seen climbing on a lifeboat and jumping from there,” the spokesperson said. Hunter has previously produced digital content for local and national outlets, covering several topics from breaking news and current events to politics and pop culture. "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 shared in a statement with CBS News Miami.

The Mardi Gras and the cruise ship Elation also participated in the search, said Coast Guard spokesman David Micallef. Ronnie Peale Jr., 35, went overboard from a Carnival Magic cruise ship traveling off the coast of Florida on Monday, the Coast Guard said. After searching through Thursday and for more than six hours on Friday, the US Coast Guard made the “difficult decision” to suspend the operation.

AIDA Cruises said one of its crew members was missing after going overboard early on Sunday morning. 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 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.

James Michael Grimes told ABC News on Friday that he went into survival mode after he plunged from the Carnival Valor ship and into the shark-infested waters of the Gulf of Mexico the night of Nov. 23. He would call at least three times a day to check on his dogs, and when he didn't call Monday morning and afternoon, Linda Peale knew something was wrong. She said she called Blosser to check in and learned they couldn't find him. All passengers were told to go back to their rooms so crew could conduct a head count.

Despite desperate search efforts involving beacons, buoys and rescue crafts, crews were unable to find any sight of him. At least 406 people on major cruise lines and ferries have gone overboard between 2000 and 2024, according to data collected by retired professor and cruise industry researcher Ross Klein. Meanwhile, Carnival Cruise Line said its Care Team “is supporting the missing guest's family on board” the ship, which "arrived today to Montego Bay, Jamaica as planned."