An aged American man who was touring on his personal aboard the Ruby Princess has been presumed lifeless after going overboard this week.
After an intensive search and rescue operation, the US Coast Guard (USCG) referred to as off its seek for the lacking passenger.
Authorities consider that the 72-year-old man went overboard on Monday earlier than the Princess Cruises-owned vessel docked in San Francisco at 6:50 a.m.
On the time, the Grand-class ship was coming back from a 5-day roundtrip crusing to Ensenada, Mexico. It left the Golden Metropolis on November 27 and concluded its voyage on December 2.
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The cruise line knowledgeable CBS Information, “Princess Cruises is saddened to report {that a} 72-year-old American male is believed to have gone overboard earlier in the present day forward of the arrival of Ruby Princess into San Francisco.”
A Princess Cruises consultant added {that a} thorough onboard search had been carried out and the vessel’s CCTV footage had been reviewed.
Since these efforts have been unsuccessful in finding him, the matter was handled as a person overboard incident. The precise time when the unidentified passenger went overboard stays unknown.
The US Coast Guard took over the search later that day, deploying a minimum of one airplane to comb the 45-mile space from Monterey to San Francisco Bay.
In accordance with the cruise line, the US Customs and Border Safety can also be investigating the incident. By 5:30 p.m., the USCG stated it had referred to as off the seek for the lacking man.
Ruby Princess’ subsequent cruise, a 16-night itinerary to Hawaii, skilled some delay due to the search but it surely nonetheless managed to depart on the identical day.
Final month, a separate man overboard incident led P&O Cruises Australia to face attainable authorized problems. A visitor who racked up 1000’s of {dollars} in debt via Pacific Journey’s shipboard on line casino jumped off the vessel.
In the meantime, one other Princess Cruises visitor crusing on the Emerald Princess is believed to have gone overboard in August and was by no means discovered.
That is the 18th man overboard incident for the cruise trade in 2024.
