UNITED STATE Coast Guard Searching for Overboard Passenger from Carnival Cruise Ship Near Bahamas
The UNITED STATE Coast Guard is looking for a lady that supposedly dropped too far Wednesday from the Carnival Ecstasy cruise liner about 27 miles southwest of Freeport, Bahamas.
Missing is Rina Patel, 32, from Interlaken, New York, the Coast Guard has actually verified.
The Coast Guard claims it obtained alert from the Carnival Ecstasy staff that a 32-year-old female was supposedly seen dropping too far at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday from the 11th deck putting on a white outfit with pink flower.
A Coast Guard Air Station Miami MH-65 Dolphin helicopter staff, an Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry plane staff as well as the Coast Guard Cutter Gannet staff are helping in the search. The Coast Guard Cutter Bernard C. Webber staff was likewise drawn away to aid in the search.
The Carnival Ectsasy’s last port of telephone call remained in Nassau, Bahamas onTuesday Their following port of telephone call is arranged to be in Charleston, South Carolina on Thursday.
According to the site CruiseJunkie.com, which tracks male too far events in the cruise ship as well as ferryboat sectors, there have actually been 7 such events thus far in 2016. On standard, there are 23 male too far events yearly for the previous 5 years.