Cruise passenger dies after falling over balcony onto lower deck, spokesperson says

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• Salvatore Anello – Royal Caribbean Accidental Death
• Taylor Swift shares inspiration behind ‘TTPD’ songs — including 2 ‘tragic’ tracks about ‘broken’ relationships
• "Rogue wave" kills American woman, injures four others on Antarctic cruise ship
• crew members die on Holland America ship; fire breaks out on Carnival cruise
• Anti-Israel protesters carry flares to march on NYPD HQ after over 150 arrested at NYU

News 6 spoke with a passenger aboard the ship, who said the cruise line made an announcement urging passengers to donate blood. The teen fell Saturday aboard Allure of the Seas, which left the port on Friday and traveled to the Bahamas before returning to Florida on Monday. "The crew performed an immediate search and rescue operation, alongside the U.S. Coast Guard who supported search efforts with boats and a helicopter," the statement said.

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"Safety is always our top priority, and we are working to understand what, if anything, can be learned from this tragic accident," it said. 40,000 people receive my best cruise tips, insights and guides every week. Harmony of The Seas was docked in Labadee, Haiti at the time and the boy fell to his death landing on the pier below. A 57-year-old man was dropping off customers at pier 2 when a bystander told him that his vehicle was moving forward.

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"On Sunday, shortly after departure there was a medical emergency involving one of our passengers," the statement from Virgin Voyages read. In 2018 Almarosa Terorio was cruising on the Royal Princess with her husband when she fell to her death. The couple was actually cruising in an inside cabin at the time but witnesses report seeing a man strangle her and then throw her overboard. A woman has died after she plunged overboard on a cruise ship returning to Florida from the Bahamas on Thursday, authorities said.

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Out of respect for them, we won’t provide any further comment,” Royal Caribbean said in a statement. These rare killer waves were once seen as a myth reported by mariners or explorers. The polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote in his book of a "gigantic" freak wave he encountered in Antarctica in 1916. The FBI said it investigates "suspicious deaths" of U.S. citizens as well as "certain crimes on the high seas." Officials have not disclosed the identity of the passenger or an official cause of death. MSC Cruises said it's now cooperating with authorities investigating the incident and has extended its condolences to the family of the victim and those affected.

Francesco decided to change the route of the cruise ship which caused the accident. The ship sailed closer to land than she normally would and as a result, she overturned. 32 people lost their lives and captain Francesco was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

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Carnival said Tuesday that since it started sailing again in July, more than 95 percent of guests have been vaccinated. According to The New York Times, the passenger was a 77-year-old woman from Oklahoma who died on Aug. 14. "We are very sorry to hear about the death of a guest who sailed on Carnival Vista," Carnival said in a statement. "We have continued to provide support to her family and are not going to add to their sadness by commenting further."

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However, scientists have learned more about them in recent decades, studying how they emerge and how to predict the wall of water that can surge up even in calm seas. Scientists often refer to rogue waves as extreme storm waves that surge out of nowhere, often in an unpredictable direction, and can look like a steep wall of water, up to twice the size of surrounding waves. Gooding told the station that the impact of the wave was "shocking." "We wondered if we hit an iceberg," Suzie Gooding, a passenger from North Carolina, told WRAL-TV. Neither the Viking statement nor the Argentine Naval Prefecture identified the woman or her hometown.

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I took my first cruise when I was 11 and I’ve been hooked ever since. Travel insurance can get very expensive if you have pre-existing medical conditions. Prior to the cruise, Darla had been to the hospital a stab wound to the chest which the pair had explained was caused by an accident.

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A ship doctor was dispatched to check on him, but he told the doctor he’d had ‘no suicidal thoughts’ and was physically well apart from back pain. Ship staff found his cabin empty with his clothes ‘neatly folded’ on the bed after his family’s ‘desperate attempts’ to contact him failed. A local newspaper in Texas commented that Mr.Rucker, known as “Eddie,” was a beloved father of four children and the loving husband to his wife Laura. TMZ posted photos of yellow caution tape across a balcony on the ship. The Viking Polaris was launched in 2022 and is the newest ship in the company's fleet.

The majority of deaths that occur onboard cruise ships are from natural causes although some die in accidents, murders, suicides, or overdoses. The body of a 36-year-old woman has been recovered from the water off the coast of Port Canaveral, Florida, after the victim had reportedly fallen overboard from a cruise ship. A U.S. woman died and four other passengers were injured when a massive wave smashed into an Antarctic cruise ship during a storm as it sailed off the southernmost tip of South America, officials said Friday. The 62-year-old woman was hit by broken glass when the wave broke cabin windows late Tuesday, Argentine authorities said. Another woman fell overboard from a cruise ship off the South Australian coast on Tuesday this week. Her body was found the morning after by one of the two helicopters involved in the search and rescue operations.

A lawyer who disappeared from a Mediterranean cruise ship died after falling from his cabin’s balcony, a judge has found. “Unfortunately, despite the rapid rescue operation, the passenger sustained fatal injuries. We are offering our full support to authorities as they investigate this matter,” the agency said in a statement. The accident occurred on March 15th when Mr. Rucker dove from an elevated structure into the water below.

The announcement comes one day after the FBI said it would be investigating the woman's "suspicious" death. Authorities reported that conditions were really rough at sea the night when the 23-year-old woman fell from the Pacific Explorer cruise ship. "This passenger went over their balcony onto a lower deck, and despite receiving immediate medical attention, has passed away," a Virgin spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

In 2020 an increased number of crew members committed suicide during the coronavirus crisis. In may 2020,  5 crew members committed suicide on board cruise ships. Most jumped to their deaths and some hung themselves in cabin bathrooms. We heard an announcement in our cabin and our next port stop was canceled so that we could search for the missing man. A number of other cruise ships also came from close by to join the search.

"We are deeply saddened by this loss of life and our hearts and thoughts are with this person's loved ones." It is incredibly important that you have travel insurance for any cruise. Onboard medical expenses are very expensive and costs can quickly add up if passengers need to be airlifted off the ship. I’ve been on a couple of cruises where the ship has had to make extra called to drop off passengers who were unwell. The ship, Carnival Miracle, was on a 15-day journey, departing Long Beach, California, on April 6, according to Carnival Cruise Line. Several people indicated that other accidents, including “multiple deaths in the same area,” had happened and that there should be warnings to prevent similar accidents in the future.

The Ultimate World Cruise has piqued the interest of a corner of TikTok, with some users comparing the voyage to a reality TV show experience. Users have pointed out that with so much time at sea, much can happen, including relationships, fights, pregnancy and deaths. A guest aboard a nine-month Royal Caribbean cruise around the globe has died, the company said Tuesday. She took a world cruise annually and died shortly after visiting the port of Honolulu in Hawaii.

The ship had been set to debut at PortMiami in April 2020 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement Sunday, Carnival Cruises acknowledged witness reports of a lightning strike or the sound of thunder before the fire erupted. A U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson said she was looking into the statement and was unable to immediately confirm it. The cruise line said the conclusions of any investigation would be taken seriously.