Woman falls overboard from Carnival cruise ship off coast of Mexico

[marmar]

A woman fell off a Carnival Cruise Line ship balcony and into the Pacific Ocean early Saturday morning, spurring an ongoing international search effort.

The incident, which happened near the coast of Ensenada, Mexico, aboard a Carnival Miracle ship, occurred shortly after 3 a.m. and was captured on security footage, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Passengers were notified shortly after, Carnival Miracle passenger Josh Zufelt told NBC News.

The ship came to a near complete stop around 3:30 a.m. as crew members dropped a lifeboat into the water, Zufelt said.

Coast Guard crews are working with members of the Mexican Navy to locate the woman, who appeared to be in her 20s. ..............(more)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-falls-overboard-carnival-cruise-ship-coast-mexico-rcna8481

[marble falls]

2. I've been on a lot of cruises. It's pretty near impossible to 'just' go over a rail. We're ...

... missing the whole story.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I've never been on a cruise ship, but surely there are safeguards

against accidentally falling overboard. I don't think we've heard the whole story.

[dalton99a]

6. +1. Jumped, or shoved.

[marble falls]

7. Something happened besides the girl going into the drink.

[WarGamer]

16. Commercial ships give crew gps bracelets that set off an alarm when man overbaord.

[WarGamer]

18. yeah a 25 gram bracelet is the same as a 50lb compressed life raft.

Where's the rolling eyes emoji?

[BlackSkimmer]

5. It takes a while to fully stop a big ship.

You don’t just slam on the brakes and skid to a halt.

[marble falls]

8. In the navy, that's not how it's done, like you say, it could take a mile to stop ...

... as soon as 'man overboard' is sounded the ship pulls as tight of a figure eight as it can as it slows and by the time it comes into the bottom of the eight, the man in the water ends up on the same side as he went over. In the Navy, there's all sorts of opportunities to go over the side and Naval ships practice recoveries, we pick up the biggest most of them.

[BlackSkimmer]

12. Yes, I've read about that. Seems like big passenger ships would know to do the same.

But I doubt it.

[nolabear]

20. I was on a cruise years back when a crew member went over.

That’s just what they did. All we initially knew was that we were practically dumped out of bed in the wee hours as they hauled around. But not immediately beside him. Being sucked down is a real danger.

As I recall he was rescued by helicopter. We weren’t terribly far from land and though we went back it was faster and safer. No idea why he went over.

[JHB]

11. He long did it take them to realize she went overboard?

The "caught on security video" implies no one saw it happen at the time, but discovered it a bit later, maybe while checking camera footage to find a missing person.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Probably drunk at 3 a.m. Even in those waters hypothermia will get you pretty quickly.

Ship crews know that if anybody falls overboard and even if they see them right away and stop it's probably too late to do anything.

[marble falls]

9. The USN recovers almost all of it's overboard sailors. One thing the Navy does not do ...

... is come to a full stop. It pulls a figure eight while coming to stop and ends up right next to the swimmer almost every single time.

The only time we don't recover is if the fall was not known about immediately. The Navy practices 'man overboard' procedures a lot.

[BlackSkimmer]

13. I can't imagine the terror of falling overboard in the middle of the ocean.

Truly frightening.

Good to know the Navy recovers most of their personnel.

[marble falls]

14. Keeps me off the rail! Especially at night. The Navy tries hard to keep it's personnel, ...

... one can't re-up if one is missing and presumed dead.

[Homoudont]

21. Intoxicated

According to a popular cruise message board she was seen earlier that evening drinking heavily at the punchliner comedy club. Per the post she had tried to climb between balcony lost her balance and hit her head on the way down to the ocean.

[Volaris]

22. That was gonna be my guess. Without posted video, she was piss drunk and lost her balance.