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Update: Coast Guard Suspends Search for Cruise Ship Passenger

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:12:50 +0000

MIAMI — The Coast Guard suspended its search around 4:30 p.m. Saturday for a missing cruise ship passenger near the Bahamas.

Twenty-three-year-old Neha Chhikara went overboard at 4:11 a.m. Thursday from the 12th deck of Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas.

The Monarch of the Seas was headed to Little Stirrup Cay near the Berry Islands, Bahamas, from Nassau, Bahamas. The cruise ship is homeported in Port Canaveral, Fla.

The Coast Guard searched a total of 3,725 square miles using:

An HU-25 Falcon jet crew from Coast Guard Air Station Miami
An HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from the Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., deployed to Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) on Andros Island, Bahamas
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Cormorant, homeported in Fort Pierce, Fla.

The crew of a C-130 Hercules fixed-wing aircraft from

(taken from CoastGuardNews.com)

Woman Jumps Off Ship

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:31:56 +0000

I have been out of town but my producer sent me an email today. I’ll go ahead and get right to it.

Associated Press | MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a cruise ship passenger who reportedly jumped overboard in the Bahamas.

The Coast Guard says crew members aboard Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas reported Neha Chhikara missing Thursday afternoon as the ship was headed from Nassau to CocoCay.

Royal Caribbean spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez says the guest was reported missing by her husband. Security camera footage showed the 23-year-old woman going overboard from the 11th deck early that morning.

Martinez said Friday that Bahamian government officials reviewed the footage and determined that the woman jumped overboard.

The ship left Port Canaveral, Fla., on Monday for a five-day cruise through the Bahamas. It’s due to return Saturday.

This brings up a good questions…. we have seen a lot of folks jumping over the past year. Do you think that people have started jumping more or that these stories are getting picked up by more news wires? I am curious of your thoughts…….

Cruise Ship Passenger Airlifted to Hospital

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:31:53 +0000

(CBS4 – Key West) An 81-year-old cruise ship passenger needing medical attention was transported from a Carnival cruise ship to the hospital thanks to a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter on Friday afternoon.

The Carnival Conquest was 45 miles southwest of Key West when the helicopter met the elderly man and his nurse at 3:30 p.m., officials with the U.S. Coast Guard announced in a news release on Saturday.

They were hoisted aboard an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter that had taken off from the Coast Guard Air Station in New Orleans.

The pair arrived at 4:50 p.m. at the Lower Keys Medical Center. The Coast Guard did not say what the man was suffering from.

The Carnival Conquest has a maximum passenger capacity of 2,974 with 1,487 staterooms and 13 decks.

http://cbs4.com/local/cruise.ship.passenger.2.1091517.html