Caribbean cruise passenger rescued after falling overboard from tenth deck

A cruise passenger was rescued from the Caribbean sea after she fell from the ship’s tenth deck.

The 42-year-old, crusing on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas, fell into the waters round 31 miles (50km) south of Punta Cana, within the Dominican Republic, at 5.44pm native time on Sunday.

The ship’s rescue boat was in a position to find her and convey her again aboard, in line with the US Coast Guard.

The lady, who’s a US resident, was unhurt and didn’t require any medical consideration, it added, however was finally taken to hospital for an evaluation.

In an announcement, Royal Caribbean stated: “The ship and crew instantly reported the incident to native authorities and started looking for the visitor.

“Thankfully, the guest was successfully recovered and was brought on board.”

According to Fox 35 in Orlando, passengers anticipated the worst as they watched the operation happen from their balconies.

Daniel Kuhn, who was along with his household on board, advised the outlet: “After we saw the life rafts or the life preservers and the smoke – I was like, someone just died.”

He added the captain advised passengers they’d “reports of a person overboard”.

“I think it was amazing to see everyone was on their balcony,” he stated. “Everyone was trying to help, and the crew was very receptive to everyone.”

Fox added passengers cheered when the girl was introduced on board, with Mr Kuhn including: “To go from, ‘She’s probably not going to be found,’ – and… ‘it’s a body recovery’, versus ‘Holy c***, they found her, and she’s alive!'”

It was not the one incident involving Royal Caribbean final weekend – a 53-year-old man needed to be evacuated from the Voyager of the Seas, which was round 200km off the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, after reviews of a “severe loss of blood”, the Coast Guard stated.

He was flown from the ship to New Orleans, the place he was stated to be in a “fair” situation.