Cruise Ship Crew Member Falls Overboard

Indonesian Crew Member Goes Overboard From CMV Cruise Ship.

Cruise ship crew member falls overboard. This is the 349th person who has gone overboard from a cruise ship since 2000 according to Dr. He landed on a cargo container located on the pier below while the ship was moored at the Port of Tilbury. The Coast Guard 7th District received a report from the Carnival Victory that a crewmember fell overboard and dispatched a HC-144 Ocean Sentry from Miami and diverted the Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton to search.

A crew member on the Vasco da Gamma cruise ship was seriously injured after falling from deck 12 of the ship. A search and rescue operation was immediately conducted. Coast Guard is searching for a cruise ship crew member who fell overboard Saturday off the coast of Cuba.

Carnival Victory was en route from Cozumel back to Florida and approx 30 mi northwest of Cuba Island when the 37-year-old male crew fell overboard the USCG announced. This makes your chance of falling overboard on a cruise around 1 in 14 million. The crew member of the Norwegian Getaway falls overboard about 28 miles off Cuba.

According to Croatian media the tragedy struck just after 2. The Norwegian Getaway crew member was rescued by a Carnival ship. The following month a 46-year-old British woman Kay Longstaff plunged from a deck of another Norwegian ship into the Adriatic Sea about 60 miles from the Croatian coast.

Coast Guard is searching for the 37-year-old man. Ambulances and a helicopter arrived on the pier in response to the medical emergency. If the individual is not found aboard the vessel then the cruise line must report the matter to the Coast Guard and FBI and turn the vessel around to the last known location of the victim.

How Many People Fall Overboard on Cruise Ships. As one ex-cruise director told us To accidentally fall overboard is usually due to alcohol and then the press enters putting the cruise industry in the cross hairs. A crew member has reportedly gone overboard from the cruise ship Vasco da Gama operated by Cruise and Maritime Voyages.