Early this morning, a passenger reportedly went overboard from a cruise ship crusing within the Adriatic Sea, based on a number of passengers who contacted us as we speak. The Explorer of the Seas was crusing on a seven day Greece-Croatia cruise when what’s described as a younger man went overboard round 4:30 to five:00 a.m. (One other passenger said on Twitter that the announcement of the overboard was round 3:40 a.m.) There isn’t a description of how the passenger went overboard or from what location. There reportedly was a public announcement on the ship of the incident.
AIS knowledge exhibits the cruise ship altering path a number of occasions because the Royal Caribbean ship started initiating search and rescue efforts.
At the least one passenger is tweeting details about this incident:
On August third, the Explorer of the Seas departed from Ravenna, Italy and sailed to Dubrovnik, Croatia, after which to Piraeus-Athens, Greece, Santorini, Greece, and was heading to Zadar, Croatia as we speak earlier than returning to Ravenna.
The Explorer of the Seas shouldn’t be outfitted with a person overboard (MOB) system with cutting-edge sensors with movement detection / infrared / radar methods, which might have robotically despatched a sign to the bridge of the ship after which tracked the overboard particular person within the water.
That is at the very least the 414th particular person to go overboard from a cruise ship or massive ferry within the final 25 years based on main cruise knowledgeable Dr. Ross Klein who retains observe of such occasions and shares the knowledge on-line.
It seems that the ship remains to be conducting search and rescue efforts presently.
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Picture credit score: Explorer of the Seas (in Greece) Kefalonitis94 – CC0 commons / wikimedia; AIS knowledge – cruisemapper.
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As ordinary, Royal Caribbean has not launched an official assertion of the incident, nor disclosed the id, age or nationality of the overboard visitor.
One newspaper in Croatia, Slobodna Dalmacija, introduced that the lacking visitor is a “younger citizen of the UK of Nice Britain and Northern Eire.
