Carnival Cruise passenger, 26, reported missing after ship returns to Florida

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• A Carnival cruise passenger went overboard, and his mother says she found out from a cousin, not the company
• Family of missing cruise passenger denies he jumped, claims video shows him slipping over edge
• Kevin McGrath Update: Carnival Cruise Under Pressure Over Missing Passenger
• Carnival Cruise Surveillance Video Confirms Missing Passenger Jumped Overboard

Matt Lupoli, Carnival’s senior manager of public relations, said video appears to show the missing passenger jumping overboard. Though search efforts first focused on the city, the groups have moved on to the jungle. Last Friday, Daughter Savannah Miller hoped that Solomon could be under the care of local citizens occupying the jungle’s communal areas. Though authorities and civilians conducted several searches in Isla de la Pasión, they failed to find him.

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Nathan Diller is a consumer travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Nashville. The search area originally encompassed approximately 200 miles, but was narrowed to "roughly 30 miles southwest of" Louisiana's Southwest Pass, the Coast Guard said on X, formerly Twitter. His grandmother, Dirlean Tate Mason — who is not on the cruise — said Barnett works on the river barges in Houma, Louisiana, and is the father of twin girls. The Coast Guard announced Thursday that they were suspending their search for McGrath. The final port scheduled for the cruise is in Cozumel, Mexico, before returning to New Orleans. The Carnival Glory continued on its journey, porting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on Wednesday before heading for Grand Cayman Island for a stop Thursday, according to CruiseMapper.

A Carnival cruise passenger went overboard, and his mother says she found out from a cousin, not the company

He was reported missing by his family and "was not located on board despite an extensive search." And on Memorial Day, a man went overboard from the Carnival Magic cruise ship into the Atlantic Ocean, about 186 miles east of Jacksonville. Tyler Barnett, of Houma, La., was last seen around midnight on Monday morning after the ship left Sunday for a week-long Western Caribbean cruise, according to the Coast Guard which is conducting the search. Cruise Hive was established back in 2008 and among the earliest blogs in the industry. Since the start, it's been our aim to provide the latest cruise news covering all the major cruise lines.

Family of missing cruise passenger denies he jumped, claims video shows him slipping over edge

"Our thoughts remain with the guest’s family for their loss," the spokesperson said. The Coast Guard is searching an approximately 200-mile area for an unaccounted-for 28-year-old man from the Carnival Glory cruise ship. "He can be seen climbing on a lifeboat and jumping from there," the spokesperson said. Meanwhile, Carnival Cruise Line said its Care Team “is supporting the missing guest's family on board” the ship, which "arrived today to Montego Bay, Jamaica as planned." “He can be seen climbing on a lifeboat and jumping from there,” the spokesperson said. In April, Coast Guard crews suspended a search for an Australian passenger who fell off a cruise off Hawaii after a three-day search yielded no results.

The ship was on its way from New Orleans to Montego Bay, Jamaica at the time as part of a week-long Western Caribbean cruise that began Sunday, according to CruiseMapper. "Only on Tuesday were we advised of the possibility of him wearing a different shirt, which allowed our security team to change the profile of the guest as we searched onboard video," Lupoli said in an emailed statement. "We have informed the U.S. Coast Guard and are providing assistance to the guest’s family that was traveling with him who are still on board." It follows another missing person report from July, when 30-year-old Jaylen Hill disappeared while aboard a carnival cruise ship in Florida.

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Icon of the Seas had already called on Costa Maya, Riviera Maya, and Roatan Island, Honduras, before Brad disappeared in Cozumel on April 3. The ship had one more port call at CocoCay, Royal Caribbean’s private island destination in the Bahamas, before returning to Miami on April 6, 2024. It seemed only fitting to celebrate a birthday as big as 66 on the gigantic Icon of the Seas, which can accommodate a whopping 7,600 passengers per sailing, along with 2,350 crew members.

Missing Carnival cruise ship passenger seen jumping overboard, company says; family mystified

"Only on Tuesday were we advised of the possibility of him wearing a different shirt, which allowed our security team to change the profile of the guest as we searched onboard video," the Carnival spokesperson said. "We have informed the U.S. Coast Guard and are providing assistance to the guest’s family that was traveling with him." After the man was reported missing, the ship’s security team immediately began searching the vessel, Lupoli said in an earlier statement.

He cannot show or process emotions like a healthy person would,” Miller posted on Facebook on April 7. Rescue teams are now shifting strategies in their search for the 66-year-old passenger, who suffers from a form of dementia and may be confused in his unfamiliar surroundings. The U.S. Coast Guard brought in helicopters to search 3,300 square nautical miles for McGrath but didn't find a trace and called off the search. In July, a passenger went overboard from Carnival Elation, followed by a string of others across Princess and Royal Caribbean.

Missing Passenger Might Be In The Jungles Of Cozumel

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Carnival Cruise Surveillance Video Confirms Missing Passenger Jumped Overboard.

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Instead, Brad went missing shortly after arriving in Cozumel and the search began. As Cozumel is only about 30 miles long and 10 miles wide (the whole island can be driven in an hour or less), it’s entirely possible Brad may have made his way to another part of the Mexican island. The new theory is that a kind citizen may be caring for him in the ejido areas of the jungle, which is a communally owned agricultural sector.

McGrath’s disappearance comes just one week after a 19-year-old college student fell overboard on the world’s largest cruise ship, the Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas. A spokesperson with the US Coast Guard told Insider that air and surface crews are still actively searching for McGrath near Port Miami and along the South Florida shore. The missing person's report came right as passengers were beginning to disembark in PortMiami following the the four-day Bahamas venture, the cruise line said. A missing 28-year-old cruise passenger on the Carnival Glory is believed to have gone overboard on Monday, and the Coast Guard is searching the waters near New Orleans to find him.

But BI previously reported that many ships had yet to implement newer technology that automatically detects when a person goes overboard by using thermal cameras and radars that promptly alert crew members. A Louisiana dad at the heart of a massive search after he went missing from a Carnival cruise ship has since been spotted on surveillance footage leaping overboard, according to officials. "New security footage discovered by Carnival Glory shows the man jumping off the cruise ship," the Coast Guard posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday night.

A Carnival ship passenger has been reported missing after Carnival Conquest returned to PortMiami on Monday morning with one less guest. Florida officials launched a large-scale investigation after a cruise passenger mysteriously disappeared shortly before the ship returned to Port of Miami on Monday. A 2020 study from the industry trade group Cruise Lines International Association found that 19 people go overboard cruise ships each year on average. At least six people have gone overboard in the last three months, promoting debate over whether cruise ships should be required to install man-overboard detection systems. The incident comes just one week after a 19-year-old college student went overboard the largest operational cruise ship in the world, the Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas. Authorities have conducted a lengthy search for the missing man, but he has yet to be found.