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He still was nowhere to be found when all passengers disembarked the ship, and the family reported him missing, the publication reported. Between 2009 and 2019 there were reports of 212 people going overboard on a cruise ship, and only 48 of them were successfully rescued, according to a report compiled for Cruise Lines International Association by consulting firm G.P. The passenger, identified as Kevin McGrath, was aboard a Carnival Cruise from Miami to Bimini, Bahamas, over the Labor Day holiday weekend but was reported missing following an “extensive search” upon the vessel’s docking. After recovering one body, rescue crews are continuing to search for 38 people who were aboard a boat that capsized after departing from the Bahamas on Saturday, the Coast Guard says. 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. "Crews searched nearly 3,300 square nautical miles, a combined crew total of over 80 hours" before suspending their search, the Coast Guard said.
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26-Year-Old Reported Missing After Cruise Ship Returns to Florida: 'He Never Arrived'.
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Hill had been traveling on the Carnival Elation as it made its way back to its homeport of Jacksonville after a four-day trip to the Bahamas. Fox News Digital also spoke with a representative from Carnival Cruise Line who said the U.S. Coast Guard also performed a helicopter search for the missing man.
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"My whole family is taking it terribly. We're just sick to our stomach." McGrath, who's an Army veteran and a father of two, was recorded on cellphone video enjoying the live music on the ship. A spokesperson for Carnival did not respond to an e-mail this week. Cell phone footage last shows him dancing to live music on Sunday night. “At this point, I can't really say because it was verified that he did not go overboard, and he did not get off the ship via the (pass) being scanned,” Sean McGrath said.
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Coast has been notified and is currently searching the sea for the crew member. "When he didn’t show up to breakfast it was alarming, so they (McGrath's family members) went to look for him. After they couldn't find him, they approached the ship’s staff for help," she said. The Carnival Conquest cruise ship sits docked in Miami in October 2021. U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Carnival that Kevin McGrath was not detected during the debarkation process, NBC Miami reported. Cruise ships have safeguards to prevent passengers from going overboard, and are required by the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2010 to have rails that are "located not less than 42 inches above the cabin deck." McGrath was with a big group of relatives during the three-day cruise, his sister Danielle McGrath previously told USA Today.
The cruise line said the police have cleared Carnival Conquest to sail, and the Carnival Care Team is supporting the family. U.S. Customs and Border Control told Carnival Kevin McGrath was not detected during the debarkation process, NBC Miami reported. "From what I was told, he had an amazing time. He was in good spirits everyone said," his sister told CNN.
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“Crews searched nearly 3,300 square nautical miles, a combined crew total of over 80 hours” before suspending their search, the Coast Guard said. Ship staff and security searched the ship but were unsuccessful, Miami-Dade Police Department officials reported after Kevin McGrath disappeared. The search team surveyed the waters via boats and helicopter for more than 80 hours combined but saw no sign of McGrath and decided to suspend the mission Thursday, a Coast Guard spokesperson told Fox News.
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U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jo-Ann Burdian, speaking at a news conference on Wednesday in Miami Beach, Fla., details the search for dozens of missing people from a boat that capsized after leaving the Bahamas. "All of us at Holland America Line are deeply saddened by this incident and our thoughts and prayers are with the team member's family at this difficult time," the cruise line shared in a statement with CBS News Miami. The family first noticed McGrath was missing after he failed to show up for breakfast Monday morning, his sister said.
Coast Guard crews were searching 3,300 square nautical miles off the coast of Florida for Kevin McGrath, 26, who was reported missing by his family after he failed to show up to breakfast on the ship Monday morning. The Miami-Dade police stated that the ship’s overboard detection system never went off, giving them no evidence that McGrath went overboard. A search by ship staff and security has been unsuccessful as well as the U.S. Coast Guard’s helicopter search of 3,300 square nautical miles.
Kevin McGrath, 26, was celebrating his dad’s 60th birthday on the Carnival Conquest when he failed to show up for breakfast as the ship headed back to Port Miami after a Labor Day weekend cruise to the Bahamas. Others have brought of the case of 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley who went missing on a Royal Caribbean International cruise in 1998. To this day she was never found and there are rumors that she’s dead or was sold into sex trafficking. One commenter shared that there is an alleged Facebook group dedicated to the man’s disappearance and some of the very cruise workers allegedly only found out via social media, not from the Cruise line or security. The video has more than 630,000 views and over 1,800 comments as of Wednesday morning.
Danielle McGrath, who was not on the ship, said her brother and family were on the cruise to celebrate their father's 60th birthday. McGrath, who’s an Army veteran and a father of two, was recorded on cell phone video enjoying the live music on the ship. Danielle McGrath, who was not on the ship, said her brother and family were on the cruise to celebrate their father’s 60th birthday. On Sept. 4, and searched 3,300 square nautical miles with helicopters but found nothing, according to Petty Officer Ryan Estrada, in Miami.
"Kevin McGrath, 26 years old, was last seen in the area of Port of Miami," a missing person flyer issued by the Miami-Dade Police Department said. “Kevin McGrath, 26 years old, was last seen in the area of Port of Miami,” a missing person flyer issued by the Miami-Dade Police Department said. Sean McGrath has said about 43 friends and family members were on the three-day cruise to the Bahamas aboard the Carnival Conquest as part of his 60th birthday celebration. Citing the ongoing investigation, Zabeleta declined to say whether police officials have obtained or reviewed video Carnival cameras recorded aboard the Conquest. Sean McGrath said about 43 friends and family members were on the three-day cruise to the Bahamas aboard the Carnival Conquest as part of his 60th birthday celebration.
Kevin was reported missing on a Monday, and the Coast Guard’s search for him was suspended a few days later that same Thursday, USA Today reported. McGrath’s disappearance comes just one week after a 19-year-old college student fell overboard on the world’s largest cruise ship, the Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas. Miami-Dade Police issued a missing person’s alert Tuesday, saying McGrath was last seen in a black shirt, shorts and gray sneakers at around 2 a.m. 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. His disappearance "is so random, out of nowhere," Danielle McGrath, Kevin McGrath's sister, told USA TODAY.
Officials in Florida are investigating the disappearance of a cruise passenger who did not return with the vessel once the ship docked. She adds that her friends have been in contact with the family, and they told her that when they post the missing person poster on the Carnival Facebook page, it gets pulled down. They’re not even going to alert the other passengers who might have seen something?
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