Coast Guard searches for man missing from Louisiana cruise ship

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A spokesperson for Carnival on Monday declined to respond to detailed questions about how the ship’s staff searched for Kevin McGrath and referred to a statement released after he was reported missing. Carnival Cruises is continuing its investigation into McGrath’s disappearance and has been repeatedly reviewing closed-circuit video footage from the ship, a spokesperson told The Post Thursday. A day after the search began, cruise officials were told the missing man may have been wearing a different shirt, which expanded their profile of the guest they were searching for in security footage. "We are beyond grateful that this case ended with a positive outcome," said Lt. Seth Gross, a Sector New Orleans search and rescue mission coordinator. Police and federal authorities are searching for a man who was reported missing Monday morning after a Carnival cruise ship returned to Miami. Passengers were told their arrival time to their port of call, Cozumel, would be delayed, he said.

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Mason said a granddaughter confirmed that Barnett climbed over the edge of the rail and jumped on the lifeboat, but walked on it for a few minutes before he appeared to slip and fall off. "When I was younger, I had such intense anxiety that I would lose him in a tragic car or boating accident. Any time he would come late from work, I assumed he was gone forever," Miller wrote to conclude her post. "But right now, in my heart, I can feel that he is healthy and okay and that I will see him again very soon."

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Barnett, of Houma, Louisiana, the father of twin girls, was reported missing that afternoon, and the Coast Guard sent two aircraft to search, following the ship’s track toward Jamaica, it said. A passenger who fell off a cruise ship late Wednesday night was rescued on Thursday evening. So far, crews have searched more than 200 miles of water for the missing passenger, according to the agency. 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. According to the Coast Guard, the man was on the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship Thursday morning when he went overboard 57 miles from Great Inagua in the Bahamas. On average, 19 people go overboard on cruise ships every year — and of those, only about four are rescued, according to a 2020 study commissioned by the industry trade group Cruise Lines International Association.

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The missing man’s sister, Destiny Barnett, told NBC News that she and 13 other relatives were also on the cruise. There have been no significant delays to the ship’s operation and her itineraries have not been altered in light of this incident. This is standard practice for any cruise line, even when such troubling incidents occur. On Sept. 4 and searched 3,300 square nautical miles with helicopters but found nothing, according to Petty Officer Ryan Estrada, in Miami. 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."

The Coast Guard confirmed that its crews are "actively searching near the Port of Miami and along the South Florida shore" after the missing person's report Monday. Security footage from the Carnival Glory “shows the man jumping off the cruise ship,” according to a Tuesday night update from the Coast Guard. They’re not even going to alert the other passengers who might have seen something?

Coast Guard suspends search for missing Carnival Cruise passenger Kevin McGrath

Lyles also responded via email sharing that she was getting notifications from the Carnival app for things like events throughout the cruise stay and said the company should have used that system to alert passengers of the missing person. “We had a passenger died on an excursion in Jamaica & carnival didn’t say anything we heard from other passengers,” a person said. Several people said that they’ve been on cruises where other incidents have occurred, and it wasn’t communicated to passengers until much later or not at all. "As we were walking from the hot tub back to the elevators, his dad and brother were walking towards us," passenger Bryan Sims told the Post. "His dad was fussing at him for being drunk, I guess. When we got to them, he said to his dad, 'I'll fix this right now.' And he jumped out the window in front of us all."

She said that Tyler Barnett works on the river barges in Louisiana and that she does not think he would try to take his own life. The cruise is also scheduled to stop at Grand Cayman Island and Cozumel, Mexico, before it returns to New Orleans on Sunday, according to its itinerary. Tyler Barnett's sister, Destiny Barnett, and 13 other relatives were also on the cruise. The Carnival Glory left Louisiana for Montego Bay and is due to arrive Wednesday, the cruise line said.

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Coast Guard searches for man missing from Louisiana cruise ship

The man was last seen by his sister at a bar aboard the Carnival Cruise Line ship Wednesday night, according to a statement CNN obtained from Carnival spokesperson Matt Lupoli. In a remarkable act of service and good fortune, a man reported missing from the Carnival Valor sailing in the Gulf of Mexico was found in the water and rescued on Thursday, according to the US Coast Guard. A cab driver later told police that he gave a ride that day to a man matching Solomon's description, according to Mexican news outlets. The driver allegedly told police that he dropped the man off on a dirt road leading to Isla de la Pasìon, a small island.

Posters have announced meet-up times for people wanting to help look for Solomon and passed along messages from his family. One contributor noted that police had been playing a recording of Solomon’s wife over loud speakers in various areas as they search. Edmond Bradley "Brad" Solomon III, a 66-year-old West Ashley native, was last seen April 3 after disembarking from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in port at the island. A frantic search started almost immediately and now has stretched to a 10th day.

The 155,889-gross-ton, Freedom-class cruise ship was 57 miles from Great Inagua Island in The Bahamas at the time and crew members immediately initiated search operations and alerted the US Coast Guard for assistance. The US Coast Guard District Seven (Southeast) has released a brief note confirming the suspension of search operations for the 20-year-old man reported overboard from Liberty of the Seas on Thursday, April 4. The search ended after six days without success, but the statement does not note whether any evidence of the man’s whereabouts has been found.

The cruise ship’s care team is supporting his family who were traveling with him and are still on board, a spokesperson told The Post. The ship and crew immediately reported the incident to local authorities and launched a search and rescue mission,” a company rep told The Post in an email. 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 Coast Guard on Wednesday night suspended the search for a cruise ship passenger who is believed to have fallen into the sea east of Florida on Monday morning, officials said.

His family reported him missing when they couldn’t find him after everyone had disembarked the cruise. "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 said in a statement. In August, a Royal Caribbean passenger went overboard from the Wonder of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, while it was off the coast of Cuba during a voyage from Florida.

"The local military and civilian search and rescue leaders are focusing efforts in the jungle now," his daughter Savannah Miller, 29, posted to Facebook on April 11. A Louisiana dad at the heart of a massive search after he went missing from a Carnival cruise ship has since been spotted on surveillance footage leaping overboard, according to officials. The Miami-Dade police stated that the ship’s overboard detection system never went off, giving them no evidence that McGrath went overboard.

Citing the ongoing investigation, Zabeleta declined to say whether police officials have obtained or reviewed video Carnival cameras recorded aboard the Conquest. The ship’s overboard detection system never went off, and there is no other evidence that Kevin McGrath went overboard, according to the MDPD. "We greatly appreciate the efforts of all, most especially the U.S. Coast Guard and the mariner who spotted the guest in the water," Lupoli told CBS News. The Coast Guard shared video footage of the rescue on Twitter, showing the moment the man was found and brought aboard an agency helicopter.