Search for British Woman Missing from Tui Cruise in Atlantic Suspended by US Coast Guard
The US Coast Guard (USCG) has suspended its search for a 72-year-old British woman who went missing from Tui's Marella Voyager cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The woman was last seen on Monday while the ship was en route to the Caribbean. Staff discovered her missing on Tuesday when her bed was found untouched. The USCG received a missing report when the ship was approximately 500 nautical miles from the area where she was believed to have entered the water. The coordinated international search and rescue effort was called off on Wednesday due to factors including the low likelihood of survival. The woman is thought to have gone overboard in a remote area of the North Atlantic, roughly 1,400 nautical miles from Bermuda. Tui stated that an alarm was raised and a search was conducted after staff realized she was missing. Separately, a Royal Caribbean employee, a cruise ship pianist, was rescued after being in the Pacific Ocean for nine hours near Catalina Island.
