Norwegian Cruise Jewel passenger goes overboard crusing to Florida
An emergency has been declared on a cruise ship after a “passenger went overboard,” a vacationer claims.
Passengers on the Norwegian Jewel – at present en route from Barcelona to Miami – say they had been woken up at 2 a.m. with “code Oscar starboard” blaring out of the audio system – a maritime emergency sign for an individual overboard.
A passenger claims workers on the cruise confirmed somebody had “gone overboard” and the cruise ship is in “search and rescue mode” – at present circling the Atlantic Ocean.
The Norwegian cruise liner set sail from Barcelona on October 15.
A British passenger, who needed to stay nameless, stated: “I used to be asleep within the cabin. The captain put out an announcement ‘code Oscar starboard.’
“Because it was transmitted into our rooms additionally. I assumed it is perhaps severe and googled it to search out that Oscar means individual overboard.
“We have now simply within the final 10 minutes had an announcement to substantiate somebody is overboard, and that’s the reason we now have been and nonetheless are circling.”
Norwegian Cruise Line has been contacted for a remark.
