Coast Guard searching for man who fell overboard from Carnival cruise ship near Florida

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A 35-year-old man aboard a Carnival Cruise ship fell overboard Monday off the Florida coast, according to U.S. LA FAYETTE, ALABAMA -- James Michael Grimes is speaking out for the first time in an exclusive interview with ABC News after going overboard on a Carnival cruise ship after being missing for almost 20 hours. Lupoli said the Coast Guard released the ship from the search efforts and it continued to Port Canaveral. A 35-year-old man is missing after falling from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida, authorities said. Another passenger Ken told 7NEWS.com.au he and his wife were awake at the time of the incident, and saw the lifeboats and search lights being used.

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Coast has been notified and is currently searching the sea for the crew member. "I instantly felt sick to my stomach knowing that one of our fellow travelers had been lost at sea," he told the newspaper. The ship was reportedly travelling from Hamburg in Germany to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. A helicopter, a Coastguard aircraft and lifeboats were involved in the operation. "We are beyond grateful that this case ended with a positive outcome," said Lt. Seth Gross, a Coast Guard Sector New Orleans search-and-rescue mission coordinator.

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Saturday, when an announcement saying “Oscar, Oscar, Oscar, Starboard” was made over the ship’s loudspeakers, passenger Colin Schappi told NBC News affiliate WCBD in Charleston. "Out of privacy for the guest and their family, we have no additional details to share," said a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean. The Coast Guard is using air and water assets to search for the passenger.

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Quantum of the Seas departed Brisbane, Australia, on April 12 and is scheduled to arrive in Honolulu on Friday. The man was rushed to a hospital in New Orleans and was being evaluated, officials said. Ms. White pictured the unknown passenger alone in the water and felt sick to her stomach. The eight-day roundtrip was themed "Christmas," according to the cruise line's website.

The Coast Guard is searching for a 35-year-old man who fell overboard while on a Carnival cruise ship near Florida on Monday, according to a statement. The Coast Guard said it is using both air and water assets to conduct the search for the passenger. As of Wednesday afternoon, the Coast Guard said its crews have searched 5,000 square miles over more than 40 hours as the search for Peale continues. The U.S. Coast Guard said it is searching for a passenger who went overboard from the Carnival Magic cruise ship traveling 186 miles east of Jacksonville on Monday. "We offer our most sincere condolences to Mr. Peale's family and friends." "The ship's crew immediately launched a search and rescue operation and is working closely with local authorities."

“The crew of the cruise ship remained on scene to search for approximately two hours, deploying six life rings,” the release said. "We greatly appreciate the efforts of all, most especially the U.S. Coast Guard and the mariner who spotted the guest in the water," the Coast Guard said in a statement Thursday to ABC News. Grimes, who was on the five-day Thanksgiving cruise with 18 family members, was reported missing by his sister about 12 hours after he left the ship’s bar to use the bathroom and failed to return. Carnival Cruise Line said a person who was traveling with the man, identified as Ronnie Lee Peale Jr. by family, reported the incident late Monday afternoon, according to CBS affiliate WTKR and NBC affiliate WAVY. After searching more than 5,171 square miles over the course of 60 hours, the Coast Guard said Wednesday night that it has suspended search efforts for Peale.

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The Coast Guard said Monday that it has since called off its search for the missing person. After six hours the crew returned to the air station for fuel replenishment. The crew member was on board the German AIDAperla cruise ship when he went overboard in the early morning of 22 October. The passenger, according to the Coast Guard, turned out to be James Grimes, 28, who had been traveling with his parents and siblings on the five-day cruise.

The sibling didn’t report her brother gone until noon the next day,  prompting the Cozumel, Mexico-bound ship to retrace its sailing path toward New Orleans Thursday, Carnival spokesperson Matt Lupoli told the outlet. The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 41-year-old man who went overboard on a cruise ship just before Christmas, it said Monday. Grimes had only been aboard the Carnival Valor for a day before his sister reported him missing. The two were last seen together at a restaurant where Grimes had won an air guitar contest before going to the bathroom. The man was a passenger on the Carnival Magic cruise ship, which was about 186 miles east of Jacksonville when he fell into the water.

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“The Coast Guard has made the difficult decision to suspend the active search for the passenger aboard the Quantum of the Seas,” search and rescue mission co-ordinator Kevin Cooper said on Friday. Brisbane man Warwick Tollemache, 35, fell overboard from the Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas ship in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday night, sparking a major air and sea search. So far, crews have searched more than 200 miles of water for the missing passenger, according to the agency. The Coast Guard said in a tweet that crews were searching for a passenger who went overboard off the Carnival Magic vessel around 186 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida.

Quantum of the Seas is on a 16-night cruise that departed Brisbane on April 12 and is set to conclude in Honolulu on April 28, local time. In a speech addressing passengers on Thursday morning, the captain said his “deepest sympathies and thoughts” were with the man’s family. "While on its trans-Pacific sailing, a guest onboard Quantum of the Seas went overboard," the spokesperson said. Royal Caribbean said it “immediately” launched search boats to look for the 20-year-old and alerted the Coast Guard, which later took over the search.

Coast Guard crews searched more than 1,625 square miles over eight hours, according to the Coast Guard in Charleston. Grimes said he treaded water for nearly 20 hours after falling overboard on Thanksgiving Eve -- battling jelly fish, rip currents and shark-infested waters before being airlifted by the U.S. It still isn’t clear how Grimes ended up overboard, but the US Coast Guard appeared to suggest he may have breached the cruise ship’s safety barriers. He doesn’t recall how he fell overboard, insisting the last thing he remembers was winning an air-guitar contest in one of the ship’s lounges. CBS Miami reported the Mardi Gras is the largest ship ever built for the cruise line. The Coast Guard responded with two cutters and an airplane to search for the 43-year-old man.

Two more stops are planned in the Bahamas before it returns to Maryland. The Vision of the Seas was 127 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday night when the incident occurred, the Coast Guard posted on X. "The Carnival Care Team is providing support to the guest’s companion and traveling party who are on board," Carnival said. “The fall didn’t kill me, sea creatures didn’t eat me — I felt like I was meant to get out of there,” Grimes said. Grimes was eventually spotted by a cargo ship, and dramatic video showed him being plucked from the ocean by the Coast Guard about 20 miles south of Louisiana’s Southwest Pass. His disappearance prompted the Cozumel, Mexico-bound vessel to retrace its path toward New Orleans and the US Coast Guard to launch a frantic search.

The sprawling cruise ship has 16 decks and fits 4,905 guests and 1,500 crew members, according to its website. “I think it kind of blows the norm, the normalcy, out of the water here, and really just shows the will to live is something that you need to account for in every search-and-rescue case,” he told CNN. Carnival Valor had said in a statement to ABC News that it conducted a search-and-rescue operation after Grimes went missing. “Cruise ships have safety barriers in all public areas that are regulated by US Coast Guard standards that prevent a guest from falling off,” the agency said in a statement.

Following the incident, crew members attempted to lower lifeboats into the water. A Royal Caribbean Cruise Line spokesperson confirmed the Quantum of the Seas departed Brisbane on April 12 and is scheduled to arrive in Honolulu on April 28. Ms West said the Royal Caribbean cruise staff "were amazing" and have kept all passengers updated throughout the ordeal. She said the cruise ship captain had been providing regular updates over the loudspeaker and had just confirmed there would be no further updates. Brad Hardy, from Mount Isa, said he was on deck 14 of the cruise ship when he heard the emergency broadcast. "They broadcast several times that there was a suspected man overboard situation and that the crews were following their procedures.

"The Jayhawk aircrew hoisted the man onto the helicopter and transferred him to awaiting emergency medical services at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport," a statement from the Coast Guard read. The ship was on its way to Cozumel, a Mexican island in the Caribbean, and was released by the Coast Guard to continue to its destination after the rescue was made. The 28-year-old man said he was determined to make it out of the Gulf of Mexico alive, calling it the experience of a lifetime. The man jumped from the Carnival Cruise Line ship Mardi Gras just after midnight about 55 miles east of Port Canaveral, according to the Coast Guard and Carnival. The cruise company has now confirmed a woman died from a medical episode just hours before Tollemache went overboard.