Carnival Ship Worker Falls Overboard

Here's the link to the story: http://news.aol.com/article/cruise-ship-worker-falls-overboard/291489

(Jan. 1) -- 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. ET, a Carnival Cruise Lines statement said.

"The eyewitness accounts indicate that this was clearly an accidental overboard," the statement said.

The other employees threw the man a life ring as the Carnival Sensation sailed about 20
miles off Vero Beach, Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class James Harless
said.

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, he said.

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," the company statement said.

The Carnival Sensation -- which sails twice weekly to the Bahamas from PortCanaveral -- was returning from a four-day Bahamas cruise that departed Port Canaveral on December 28.

Does anyone have an update of this story?

Last I heard, the Coast Guard gave up the search as then did with the female passenger that went missing on NCL at about the same time.

It seems that these incidents are on the rise. Hopefully the Cruise Lines do something about it.

short of locking everyone indoors, it's hard for the cruise lines to control.

A "Lock In Cruise" Cool maybe a new theme?

RKlein wrote:

It seems that these incidents are on the rise. Hopefully the Cruise Lines do something about it.

I think its more like THE REPORTING of incidents are on the rise.

RKlein wrote:

It seems that these incidents are on the rise. Hopefully the Cruise Lines do something about it.

I don't think they are on the rise. They just seem to get more attention now.

Media loves fear. They will completely crush the country and economy if they're not careful. The biggest problem with the current economy is the news media. It's scaring everyone into not spending, which in turn just makes everything worse. Then when they keep going after stories like this one, suddenly it starts to make more people afraid to cruise, airplane crashes afraid to fly, all the car accidents, afraid to drive.

The media's forward onslaught for instilling fear into every living being to increase their ratings is the worse thing going for this country.

There's my rant.

My prayers go out to the individuals that were lost.