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• Cruise expert talks about how a woman who went overboard Royal Caribbean ship was rescued
• Indian woman who fell off cruise ship has died; son says CCTV footage confirms it
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• Passenger rescued after falling off 10th deck of cruise ship, Coast Guard says
• ‘They found her!’: Witness describes rescue of woman who fell overboard on Royal Caribbean ship
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"I thought after that we were going to be here trying to recover a body," Kuhn said, recalling that he thought, "There's no way someone can survive that fall. Like that's a long fall." A 36-year-old woman, who was not publicly identified, was found 18 miles from the shore of Port Canaveral, according to the Coast Guard's Southeast district. She was on the MSC Meraviglia, which is owned and operated by MSC Cruises. Alicia Victoria Lozano is a California-based reporter for NBC News focusing on climate change, wildfires and the changing politics of drug laws.

Cruise expert talks about how a woman who went overboard Royal Caribbean ship was rescued

It sails from Long Beach, San Diego and San Francisco to Alaska, Hawaii and Mexico. "Our thoughts are with the guest and her family, and our Care Team is providing support," Carnival said in a statement. “We are also in close contact with Singaporean authorities to address related issues and are facilitating legal procedures,” the High Commission said Tuesday night. The couple’s other son Apoorv Sahani had said on Monday that his mother could not swim.

Indian woman who fell off cruise ship has died; son says CCTV footage confirms it

JUNEAU, Alaska — Members of the Coast Guard are trying to determine how a woman fell off a Seattle-based cruise ship and into frigid waters in Alaska. The U.S. Coast Guard suspended a 31-hour search for a passenger who fell off a cruise ship near Mexico, the authorities said on Sunday. Data from a Cruise Lines International Association report on operational incidents from 2009 to 2019 shows only 28% of people who go overboard are safely rescued, the cruise line added.

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The captain of the Celebrity Solstice reported the woman missing at 3 a.m. Crews started searching early in the morning on Saturday and into Sunday, the Coast Guard said. Since the person had already been recovered by the cruise ship, no Coast Guard assets were utilized. Boats searched the seas and ended up finding the missing person still alive who the U.S. According to a report from the Cruise Lines International Association, there were 212 overboard incidents between 2009 and 2019 and only 48, or 28.2%, of victims were successfully rescued. The United States Coast Guard confirmed this week that a 42-year-old woman was ultimately saved after falling off the 10th deck of the Mariner of the Seas on Sunday as the ship was bound for the island of Curaçao.

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Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. In a statement to PEOPLE, MSC Cruises said they are working with authorities to investigate the incident. Everyone was trying to help, and the crew was very receptive to everyone,” he said. “With the footage we have unfortunately learned that my mother has passed away,” wrote the grieving son, who is a businessman based in Melbourne, Australia. "I think there was a majority of people that saw something [in the water] and that's really where it took over."

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Reeta Sahani, 64, was declared missing Monday after her husband, Jakesh Sahani, 70, woke up in the middle of the night and noticed she was not in their cabin in the Spectrum of the Seas, the Straits Times first reported. The ship was to return to Long Beach as scheduled Sunday morning, the cruise line said. The Indian couple was on a four-day cruise on the Spectrum of the Seas which was on the way back to Singapore from Penang on Monday morning when the 70-year-old Jakesh woke up to find his wife missing from their room. “We are deeply saddened by this loss of life and our hearts and thoughts are with this person’s loved ones,” the company spokesperson said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

‘They found her!’: Witness describes rescue of woman who fell overboard on Royal Caribbean ship

He said that when he looked over the balcony of his room, he saw crew members tossing life preservers into the water. The passenger was recovered alive and reported to be in good health, after reportedly falling into the water from the tenth deck of the ship, the Coast Guard said. Despite the headline-grabbing tales of murky seas and foul play, overboard incidents remain a real rarity on cruise ships, Insider previously reported. Coast Guard officials coordinated the medevac with the cruise ship and a Coast Guard Jayhawk aircrew was deployed onto the boat. The woman was placed in a rescue basket and was hoisted up into the helicopter.

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"Early this morning, MSC Meraviglia's advanced detection systems alerted our crew to a passenger overboard while the ship was sailing to Port Canaveral," the company said. "The crew performed an immediate search and rescue operation, alongside the US Coast Guard who supported search efforts with boats and a helicopter." The body of a 36-year-old woman who fell from a cruise ship was recovered on Thursday morning off the coast of Florida. The woman tumbled from her balcony onto a deck below shortly after the Virgin Voyages ship set sail for Roatan, Honduras, the cruise company told news outlets Monday.

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The search was conducted by boat and a helicopter in the waters near Eldred Rock in Lynn Canal, which is about 20 miles (30 kilometers) west of the state capital, Juneau. The company added, "Thankfully, the guest was successfully recovered and was brought on board. Our care team is now offering assistance and support to them and their traveling party." Coast Guard members said they spent the next nine hours searching for the missing passenger, but she was not found. That, coupled with an estimated survival time of 6.19 hours in the water, led the Coast Guard to suspend the search.

After approximately 45 minutes, the crew onboard the rescue boat was able to locate the woman and bring her safely back to the cruise ship. A spokesperson for the US Coast Guard told Insider that the passenger was reported to be in good health after the fall. A passenger who went overboard while on a cruise ship was safely rescued.It happened on Sunday aboard Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas, and people on board say the entire rescue took about 45 minutes. “The passenger was recovered alive and reported to be in good health, after reportedly falling into the water from 10th deck of the ship," it said. "No medical evacuation of the passenger was requested by the cruise ship. The passenger was being kept on the cruise ship’s medical facility and later transferred to the Hospital in Willemstad, Curacao for evaluation." A woman on a cruise ship out of Miami died after falling from a balcony on the boat Sunday and reportedly landing on another passenger.

"We are offering our full support to authorities as they investigate this matter. We are deeply saddened by this incident and offer our sincerest condolences to the family and those affected." In one of the videos, a small boat can be seen in the distance and people aboard the cruise ship are heard clapping, whistling and cheering. Matthew Kuhn, who was on the cruise ship with his family, told WOFL-TV of Orlando, Florida, that he watched rescue efforts from his balcony. The Indian mother thought to have jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship during a voyage from Malaysia to Singapore was confirmed dead by her family Tuesday — on what would have been her birthday. Fellow travelers aboard the 15-deck cruise ship said they watched in horror as they thought the woman would not be found after going overboard.

"The cruise ship was transiting approximately 27 nautical miles south of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic when the incident occurred and was enroute to Willemstad, Curacao," Castrodad said. A woman fell off a Carnival Cruise Line ship balcony and into the Pacific Ocean early Saturday, spurring an international search effort. “Because of the searching that we've done, it has yielded negative results," Blackburn said. That, coupled with an estimated survival time of 6.19 hours in the water, led the Coasts Guard to suspend the search, she said. "We did have reports of a person overboard," said the ship’s captain over an announcement in a video sent to FOX 35 News.

It happened on Sunday aboard Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas, and people on board say the entire rescue took about 45 minutes. Numerous cruisers watched from their balcony, and some are shocked the mission was a rescue and not a body recovery. Coast Guard, the woman's body was recovered about 18 miles from the shore of Port Canaveral after she went overboard from the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia. According to a report from the Cruise Lines International Association, there were 212 overboard incidents from 2009 to 2019, and only 48 — or 28.2% — of those who fell overboard were successfully rescued. The woman was taken to the cruise ship's medical facility after the incident and later transferred to a hospital in Willemstad, Curaçao, Castrodad said, adding that "no medical evacuation of the passenger was requested by the cruise ship."