FL -Coast Guard searching for 77-year-old woman who went overboard on cruise ship near Cuba

[PatLaurel]

Coast Guard searching for 77-year-old woman who went overboard on cruise ship near Cuba

"#HappeningNow @USCG crews are searching for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard the cruise ship Nieuw Statendam approx. 40 miles NE of Sabana, Cuba, Thursday.#USCG Cutter William Trump & Air Station Clearwater MH-60 crews are conducting searches. #SAR pic.twitter.com/zHfu7lfMQH"

 

[PayrollNerd]

Oh my someone that age is suspect. Was she particularly agile that she could have gone overboard intentionally?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

US Coast Guard suspends search for 77-year-old woman who went overboard from cruise ship near Cuba

The weeklong cruise through the eastern Caribbean was set to return to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Saturday, Jan. 3.

www.wtol.com

US Coast Guard suspends search for 77-year-old woman who went overboard from cruise ship near Cuba

 

[PatLaurel]

Search called off for 77-year-old woman who fell from cruise ship: Coast Guard

"In an update at about 5:30 p.m. E.T., the Coast Guard announced that it had suspended the search “pending the development of new information,” adding that the search lasted about eight hours and spanned more than 690 square miles."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2006855448700530720

 

[TootsieFootsie]

New information.
I wonder what it is.

 

[PatLaurel]

Someone on the same cruise commented that there are cameras everywhere. And that if there happens to be a blind spot, only a cruise ship employee would know about it. I'm sure the Captain already knows by now if the woman jumped, was thrown, or accidentally fell overboard. The latter seems impossible in the opinion of people who have cruised the same and similar ships. I wonder if anyone actually saw the woman "fall" into the water or if the people she was with simply didn't find her and assumed she "fell"?

MOO JMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I was actually thinking something else.
She may have already left the cruise.

But then wouldn't her family know.

Unless she became unwell and is in a hospital somewhere and is unable to make contact.


Maybe this is the new information.

 

[PatLaurel]

I was actually thinking something else.
She may have already left the cruise.

But then wouldn't her family know.

Unless she became unwell and is in a hospital somewhere and is unable to make contact.


Maybe this is the new information.

The ship departed from Dominican Republic on December 31. I believe ships don’t sail off without a passenger count. So, if she had disappeared there for any reason, the authorities would’ve been alerted earlier and not when the ship was already in Cuba. I’m assuming the people she was with would have noticed her absence at midnight on New Year’s Eve, of course.

MOO JMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Many older people's absence is just not noticed, especially older women.

Ie the woman who died after being left behind from the cruise in Australia

 

[PatLaurel]

According to posts from other passengers, the captain announced around 3 a.m. that the ship was turning back to search for a passenger who had fallen overboard. Another passenger said the woman was on her cabin deck... Details aren't necessary.

MOO JMO

 

[JamieLogical]

Many older people's absence is just not noticed, especially older women.

Ie the woman who died after being left behind from the cruise in Australia

That "cruise ship" in Australia was a very different situation. That was a tiny ship with something like 80 passengers, not a ship in the fleet of a major cruise line like Holland America with thousands of passengers. In order to embark and disembark a larger ship like a Holland America ship, you have to swipe/scan your keycard. Crew members who come and go also need to scan their IDs. Those cruise lines know exactly who left the ship and who returned to the ship in each port of call. I have been on 33 cruises and on many of those, we have heard names announced over the PA system before sailing away from a port because a passenger(s) who had gotten off the ship had not returned to the ship. They know who is missing.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I was not comparing the cases in the regard of swiping on and off or saying it is the same as the Australian case.

I was saying that older women often tend to not be noticed.