AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico – Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard searched Wednesday for a cruise ship crew member believed to have fallen overboard off the coast of Puerto Rico the former night time.
The MSC Seascape used to be off the coast of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Tuesday night time all the way through a 14-day Caribbean cruise that originated from PortMiami, in keeping with CruiseMapper.
The ship notified the Coast Guard of the lacking crew member simply earlier than 9 p.m., whilst enroute from San Juan to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, in keeping with the Coast Guard.
“The cruise ship reported throwing a lifeline and three life rings with the cruise ship’s name on them and launched the cruise ship rescue boat to search,” a news release states.
The lacking crew member is a 30-year-old Indian nationwide. He used to be 80 toes from the bow and fell from a top of more or less 32 toes when he used to be reportedly noticed going overboard, in keeping with the Coast Guard.
“Once on scene, the Coast Guard aircrew commenced searching and deployed a self-locating datum marker buoy that measures sea currents to assist with the search,” the discharge states. “Shortly thereafter, the Coast Guard cutters arrived on scene. At approximately 7:30 a.m. the Coast Guard aircrew reported locating the three life rings within the search area.”
Coast Guard crews have been not able to search out the person and the ship persevered directly to the Dominican Republic, the company mentioned.
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