The Coast Guard is searching for a cruise ship employee who fell overboard early Thursday off Florida's east coast. Six fellow employees saw the off-duty entertainment staff member fall overboard at 12:40 a.m., a Carnival Cruise Lines statement said. "The eyewitness accounts indicate that this was clearly an accidental overboard," the statement said.Rico says it was just the other day that some lady stepped over the side...
The other employees threw the man a life ring as the Carnival Sensation sailed about twenty miles off Vero Beach, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class James Harless. The Coast Guard was notified within minutes and immediately began searching for the man with an airplane, a rescue helicopter, a Coast Guard cutter, and a small boat dispatched from nearby Fort Pierce.
Carnival said the Coast Guard released the ship at about 6 a.m., and the vessel arrived at its home port of Port Canaveral, Florida, about 9:25 a.m. "Our thoughts and prayers are with this young man at this time as well as with his friends and family," a company statement said. The Carnival Sensation, which sails twice weekly to the Bahamas from Port Canaveral, was returning from a four-day Bahamas cruise that departed Port Canaveral on December 28.
01 January 2009
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Rico says cruise ships seem to be having a bad month for overboards, according to CNN.com:
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