A passenger of a cruise in it Caribbean She was rescued alive after falling from the tenth deck into the sea, according to information released in local networks and media.
“They found her. I can’t believe she’s alive and well. People were outside watching and yelling that they had seen her. The crew was at the scene in a matter of minutes,” a Royal Caribbean cruise passenger, Matt Kuhn, said on Twitter this weekend, who witnessed the rescue and shared videos and photos on the social network of how they picked up the passenger in waters near the Dominican Republic.
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) identified the passenger as a 42-year-old woman of United States nationality, who fell from the deck when the “Mariner of the Seas” cruise ship was about 27 nautical miles south of Punta Cana. , in the Dominican Republic, on the way to Willemstad, Curaçao, points out a report from this Wednesday of NBC News.
The USCG also reported that the incident was reported around six in the afternoon this past Sunday and that after the rescue the passenger was in good health.
He also pointed out that the cruise did not request the medical evacuation of the passenger, since she was treated. He her in the medical facilities of the ship and later transferred to the Willemstad Hospital, in Curaçao, for her evaluation.
They also stressed that they are investigating the circumstances that led to the woman falling overboard.
A statement from Royal Caribbean to the aforementioned outlet confirmed the incident that occurred this past Sunday near the Dominican Republic.
The note stated that “the ship and crew immediately reported the incident to local authorities and began searching for the guest. Fortunately, the guest was recovered and brought on board.”
“Our support team is offering help and support to her and her travel group. In the interests of the privacy of the guest and her family, we have no further details to offer them,” the company statement added.
Although details of the identification of this passenger are unknown, at least she lives to tell the tale. In April of this year, a similar incident with a passenger on a Virgin Voyages cruise had another ending..
On that occasion, the woman fell from her balcony to a lower deck at night and died shortly after the ship left the port of Miami.
The unidentified woman fell on top of another passenger around 9:35 p.m. The ship was forced to return to the port of Miami after the traveler suffered a fatal fall.
“This passenger jumped from her balcony to a lower deck and, despite receiving immediate medical attention, passed away,” Virgin Voyages said in a statement. The cruiser turned around and immediately returned to Miami.
The Virgin Voyages ship, the Valiant Lady, had left Miami for Roatán, Honduras, when the incident occurred.
In July 2019, A little over a year old baby died after falling from the 11th floor Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas cruise ship in a port in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“It is an American family where the grandfather sticks the girl out of a window… and falls off the cliff and dies… Right now (the) Homicide Division is on the scene; it has not been possible to interview the family”, specified the secretary of the Department of Public Security (DSP), Elmer Román.
“It is a very strong scene, very unfortunate and tragic… at one point, one of her grandparents, apparently in an act of games, exposes the girl to the void and she falls out of his hands,” he added.
In February of that same year, Casey Holladay, a 26-year-old, suffered an accident in one of the attractions of a Royal Caribbean cruisefor which he filed a lawsuit against the company in Miami.
The boy was enjoying himself on the Mariner of the Seas cruise, and when he jumped on the trampoline, the harness that held him to the ceiling came off during one of the jumps and he crashed to the ground.
A month before, a 16-year-old teenager fell from the eighth floor of the Harmony of the Seas cruise ship, also owned by the Royal Caribbean shipping company, and passed away. The incident was seen by one of the guests who notified the crew.
The cruise ship had left Port Everglades on a seven-night eastern Caribbean itinerary and was docked in Labadee, Haiti, when the accident occurred.
The victim, Laurent Mercer, apparently fell while trying to access his room from a nearby balcony, after forgetting his key card. At first it was speculated that the cause of death was suicide.
The ship’s medical team found Laurent’s body and attempted to resuscitate him, but were unsuccessful. The young man was pronounced dead the next morning and his body was turned over to Florida authorities when the ship returned to its home port in Fort Lauderdale.
