Authorities in Cozumel, Mexico, have stepped up their search efforts, hoping to find a lacking 66-year-old American passenger who disembarked from Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas on Wednesday afternoon and by no means returned.
Edmond Bradley Solomon III, who suffers from dementia, was final seen on the SSA Pier in Cozumel carrying a white tank prime, grey shorts, and darkish glasses.
The Seguridad Ciudadana Cozumel (SCC), together with the Directorate of Public Safety, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Civil Safety Cozumel, are spearheading a complete search over land, sea, and air.
Preliminary searches had been carried out in and round Ardour Island, a well-liked cruise ship tour situated on the northern finish of the island, however proved fruitless. By Friday, the FBI had been known as in to help within the search efforts..
On Wednesday, the day on which Solomon went lacking, 5 cruise ships — Carnival Valor, Celeb Ascent, Celeb Apex, Norwegian Prima and Icon of the Seas — known as to Cozumel, bringing over 20,000 passengers to the island.
In keeping with stories, Solomon wandered off alone and has been lacking since 1 p.m. on Wednesday. His spouse, Mimi, debarked the ship and is presently staying in a resort in Cozumel, Mexico awaiting phrase of her husband’s whereabouts.
In a plea on social media, Solomon’s daughter posted that her lacking father “has frontotemporal dementia and might now not perceive advanced processes or talk clearly in dialog. He’s very pleasant and loves to satisfy new individuals, however as a consequence of his illness he’s extra quiet/reserved lately. He’s a figure-it-out-er, and that’s how he approaches life.”
She stated he had no cellphone or pockets and that “he traded his look ahead to a taxi trip yesterday [Wednesday], and that’s the final we all know of him.”
Anybody with info on his whereabouts are requested to report any info to authorities in Cozumel.
A GoFundMe web page has been arrange to help with bills for his spouse.The GoFundMe organizer, who’s a co-worker of Mrs. Solomon, stated of the couple:
| “Mimi and Brad are each nurses which have devoted their lives and careers to serving to others. Mimi works on the native VA Hospital and is without doubt one of the most compassionate nurses I’ve ever labored with. She can also be a breast most cancers survivor. Between most cancers and dementia, they’ve been via a lot in the previous few years and but Mimi nonetheless reveals up on a regular basis to maintain others.” |
Icon of the Seas is presently on a seven-night Western Caribbean crusing from Miami, with stops this week in Costa Maya, Roatan Island, Cozumel, and CocoCay, and returning to Miami on Saturday morning.
On the time of publication, Royal Caribbean had not responded to requests for remark or additional info.
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