Coast Guard searches for missing Carnival cruise ship passenger

Table Of Content

• ‘I'm sick to my stomach’: Coast Guard stops search for PSL cruise passenger who vanished
• Criticism of investigation
• Cruise ship passenger rights
• Charleston man remains missing in Mexico. Family, locals continue search into second week.
• Merrian Carver
• Coast Guard searches for missing Carnival cruise ship passenger
• Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley

FORT LAUDERDALE — A search is underway for a cruise ship crewmember who went overboard while the vessel was still at sea before docking in South Florida this weekend. "The Coast Guard is searching an approximately 200-mile area for an unaccounted-for 28-year-old man from the Carnival Glory cruise ship," the Coast Guard wrote in a Tuesday morning post on X, formerly Twitter. After searching common areas on the ship, the family became increasingly concerned. They begged the cruise ship staff to cancel the docking at Curacao — but they were ignored. On the night of March 23rd — the night before Amy Lynn Bradley vanished — the ship was docked just off the shore of Curacao. At first glance, it was a perfectly normal cruise ship night.

‘I'm sick to my stomach’: Coast Guard stops search for PSL cruise passenger who vanished

And while security footage can sometimes provide clues, some videos have produced more questions than they have answered. For that reason, the families of many cruise ship victims have written about their tragic experiences in an attempt to increase awareness about cruise ship safety. Ever since his daughter disappeared, Kendall Carver has struggled to understand exactly what happened on her final voyage. He found that she boarded the cruise ship while her daughter was staying with her ex-husband and vanished just two days into the voyage. But though a crew member noticed her disappearance, he was told to keep quiet. After the vessel docked in Vancouver, Merrian’s possessions were packed away and no one even notified the police or her family that she was missing.

Criticism of investigation

Mason said she did not think Barnett would take his own life, and there is no security footage of anyone going overboard. The cruise line said the police have cleared Carnival Conquest to sail, and the Carnival Care Team is supporting the family. "(His disappearance is) so random, out of nowhere," Danielle McGrath, Kevin McGrath's sister, told USA TODAY. "Everyone has different relationships with the person but me, how I know my brother, how I last spoke to him, his energy, his spirit. This is definitely not like him."

Cruise ship passenger rights

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It wasn’t until Merrian’s father reported her missing that police learned of her cruise ship disappearance. When authorities were alerted that Amy was missing, the Netherlands Antilles Coast Guard conducted a four-day search in the surrounding waters and along the cruise lines to no result. Authorities began to speculate that she may have fallen overboard and drowned, but investigators have rejected this theory as Amy was known to be a strong swimmer and searches turned up no sign of her. There have been possible sightings of Bradley in Curaçao. In August 1998, tourists saw a woman resembling Bradley on a beach and in 1999 a member of the U.S.

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Destiny Barnett said her brother's card was last used at his cabin door. His cellphone was in his room, and his bed had not been slept in. The Carnival Glory left Louisiana for Montego Bay and is due to arrive Wednesday, the cruise line said.

Merrian Carver

Natalia Rodrigues, a public relations manager for Carnival Cruise Line, said a team is "supporting the missing guest's family on board" and the ship is scheduled to dock in Montego Bay as scheduled Wednesday. Dirlean Tate Mason, Barnett's grandmother, told NBC News his passenger card was last used at the ship’s casino and then later at his cabin door, but that his phone was in his room and his bed was not slept in. Between 2009 and 2019, there were 212 overboard incidents around the world involving passengers and crew, according to statistics compiled for Cruise Lines International Association by consulting firm G.P. Ship staff and security searched the ship but were unsuccessful, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police Department told USA TODAY. The search for a missing Carnival cruise passenger from Port St. Lucie has been suspended after he mysteriously disappeared over Labor Day weekend.

Coast Guard searches for missing Carnival cruise ship passenger

Amy’s father, Ron, last saw her sitting on the deck of their stateroom. The family started to get worried as the day progressed and they couldn’t find her, but the Rhapsody of the Seas crew refused to cancel the docking at their next port, Curaçao. Though Royal Caribbean settled out of court with the Carver family, they also claimed that Merrian Carver probably took her own life. Carver had emotional problems and had attempted suicide before, which she appears to have done on our ship,” they said in a statement reported by ABC. To make matters worse, the cruise crew never reported Merrian Carver missing.

She was never found, though several people have reported sightings, including a U.S. Navy soldier who said Bradley approached him at a brothel asking for help. Merrian Carver was 40 when she went missing on a seven-day Royal Caribbean cruise in 2004 and her father later founded the International Cruise Victims organization. He claims Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises tried to cover up his daughter’s disappearance and worked against his investigators in the wake of the incident.

YouTubeThe Bradley family embarked on a cruise trip that turned into a nightmare. Indeed, her disappearance seems much more sinister than a case of someone lost at sea. Ever since Bradley vanished, there have been a series of disturbing sightings of her. In 2005, someone even sent her distressed family a gut-wrenching photograph that suggested she’d been trafficked into sexual slavery. Dr. Phil/Bradley FamilyA photograph that the Bradley family received in 2005, allegedly of Amy, that suggests she was sexually trafficked. YouTubeMerrian Carver’s family is outraged by how Royal Caribbean treated her 2004 disappearance.

And, to date, no one is exactly sure what happened when they vanished from a ship in the middle of the ocean. “In effect, Merrian vanished from the Earth,” her father told ABC. Mimi disembarked, while some of her family members stayed on the boat. She hopped into the car of a security guard, and together they scoured the streets of Cozumel. But Solomon walks fast, his strides decisive — especially when he’s anxious, Miller said. It was a momentous day on a significant trip, said his daughter Savannah Miller.

Such collaboration has heartened Miller, who spoke with The Post and Courier on the search’s ninth day. For now, the strategy is for everyone — tourists, locals, officials — to fan out, sweeping the island in a massive grid pattern. Some people are traversing the city’s plazas on foot, while others crisscross the region’s scrubby jungle on ATVs. The family set up a tip line to field calls reporting sightings, though Miller said most are unsubstantiated.

In April, Coast Guard crews suspended a search for an Australian passenger who fell off a cruise off Hawaii after a three-day search yielded no results. It was possible — but seemingly unlikely — that Amy Lynn Bradley had fallen overboard. No one could find evidence that she had fallen or was pushed. And there didn’t seem to be any sign of a body in the water.

When the Bradley family boarded a cruise ship called Rhapsody of the Seas on March 21, 1998, they were looking forward to a fun family vacation. But two days later, their 23-year-old daughter Amy Lynn vanished. In July, another man was reported missing from the Carnival Elation cruise ship off the coast of Florida after he was believed to have deliberately jumped from the ship. James Michael Grimes survived in the Gulf of Mexico for 20 hours after going overboard the Carnival Valor cruise ship last November. He said he spent hours treading water while fending off ocean dwellers and was ultimately spotted by the crew of a bulk carrier vessel before being rescued by the Coast Guard. Barnett was traveling with family aboard the Carnival Glory ship, a 13-deck, 110,000-ton boat with the capacity to carry 2,980 passengers.