Carnival cruise passenger seen in video moments before reportedly jumping off ship

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• Woman falls overboard from Carnival cruise ship off Mexico
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• The Coast Guard suspended its 14-hour search Thursday evening

The ship’s command immediately began search and rescue procedures, returned to the area near where the incident occurred and notified the US Coast Guard,” spokesman Matt Lupoli said in an email. A Carnival cruise ship passenger was caught on camera struggling with security moments before she reportedly jumped overboard into the Gulf of Mexico. Chaotic video shows a woman being detained aboard a Carnival cruise ship shortly before she reportedly jumped overboard from her balcony and vanished in the Gulf of Mexico. Cell phone video (see below) of the incident obtained by WAFB’s sister station WVUE FOX 8 shows three security guards holding a woman’s arms behind her back not cuffed. She gets up and screams the name “Alicia” before being helped up a flight of stairs and off of the pool deck. The video then cuts to moments after the woman jumped, and crews can be seen rushing to the edge of the ship to throw in a life preserver.

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Some witnesses said she had been cuffed but that they did not know whether she was still restrained when she broke free and jumped, NOLA.com reported. “We offer our deepest sympathies to the family during this difficult time,” she added. An earlier version of this story included a quote from a passenger saying the woman was in handcuffs.

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The success rate for finding people alive who have fallen overboard stands at around 25 percent and a number of factors affect this, including location, time of day and weather. Cruise lines have a legal obligation under the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and Coast Guard regulations to immediately undertake search and rescue operations when a passenger is observed going overboard. In an update to DailyMail.com early Thursday, the US Coast Guard said the search for the missing passenger is still ongoing. Passengers reportedly said that she jumped off the 10th floor and hit the side of the ship before hitting the water. The ship arrived to its homeport of New Orleans on Thursday morning from a five-day cruise to Mexico that departed Saturday, Feb 12 and departed on its next cruise Thursday evening. The Carnival Valor can carry nearly 3,000 guests and 1,180 crew members, according to its website.

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The woman is then seen struggling as the guards try and hold her arms behind her back. At one point, the woman can be heard screaming "Alicia" before being escorted away by security.

Royal Caribbean's tally is 55; there have been 28 for Norwegian Cruise Line and 24 passengers or crew went overboard on Princess Cruise Lines - also owned by Carnival - in the last 11 years, according to the site. The 952-foot, 110,000-ton Carnival Valor can carry 2,980 passengers and 180 crew members. It has 13 decks and it was built in 2004 before being refurbished in 2008. According to the passenger claiming to be a witness, the woman was detained but managed to break free and jumped off the deck. Other passengers aboard the ship have been posting messages on Facebook about their experiences. The Coast Guard was contacted about the incident at around 3pm on Wednesday and sent out two sets of helicopter aircrews to locate the woman.

The ship arrived back its home port of New Orleans on Thursday morning, Carnival said. However, after 14 hours of searching, the Coast Guard announced that it suspended its mission. As many cases are often deadly, many cruise lines have installed surveillance cameras and employed additional safety measures to help reduce risk. Barnette said that as the woman was falling, she banged her head on the side of a lifeboat.

Authorities are investigating the death of a passenger who fell from a balcony to a deck while on a cruise ship on Sunday. The guest jumped from deck 11 at approximately 7 p.m., according to a Carnival spokesperson, and the ship's command immediately began a search and rescue operation. Other passengers posted videos to Twitter moments after the woman allegedly jumped, with one showing a life preserver floating in the water nearby. In the cell phone video obtained by FOX 8, the woman, 32, is seen being pulled to her feet by security guards on the deck of the Carnival Valor ship on Wednesday.

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According to FOX 8, the crew tried to mark her location with flares, and the ship searched the waters for hours. The Coast Guard said it received a call Wednesday afternoon that a 32-year-old African American woman had fallen overboard from the Carnival Valor cruise ship about 150 miles offshore of Southwest Pass, Louisiana. A search that was underway for a guest who jumped overboard Wednesday night from the Carnival Horizon ship has reportedly ended after the body was found. The Coast Guard received a call Wednesday afternoon that a 32-year-old woman had fallen overboard from the Carnival Valor cruise ship about 150 miles from Southwest Pass, Louisiana, authorities said.

The ship was completing a trip from Cozumel, Mexico, to New Orleans - a little more than 76 hours - when the incident occurred. Friday as the ship headed back towards Charleston, S.C., from the Bahamas. "At the moment, we do not have a departure time for tomorrow after our arrival, but we'll share all relevant information with you as soon as we have updates," she said as the vlogger and the people around him appeared to be in shock. The Carnival Horizon departed Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos, two hours before at around 5 p.m ET. She said it looked like a seizure, and I said that might have happened with the head injury,” Avenarius said. Whenever they got to take her into custody, apparently she was upset and went over the rail,” Baton Rouge resident Kim Barnette told the outlet.

Carnival has the most number of passengers and crew that have fallen overboard since 2000, a total of 73, according to the website CruiseJunkie.com. (WBTV) - Passengers who were on a Carnival cruise ship Memorial Day weekend are sharing their “nightmare” moments after the ship sailed through a storm, leaving behind reported damage. "Yesterday evening shortly after departure there was a medical emergency involving one of our passengers," says the spokesperson. Rescue crews were searching for a 32-year-old woman who apparently jumped off of the ship on Wednesday.

The six-day cruise departed Miami this past Sunday and is expected to return Saturday. The U.S. Coast Guard was notified, and the cruise line is providing support to the guest's wife. “She broke loose and flipped herself over the side,” he said, adding that an eyewitness described seeing her head strike a lifeboat as she fell overboard.

A video was shared of a life preserver and a flare with red smoke coming out in the water, by Johnny on Twitter (@johnnytrupp). One man claimed that the 32-year-old woman who jumped 'had been causing problems for the entire trip,' allegedly threw a water bottle at security guards and attacked one of them. Close to midnight, he says passengers in the hallway reported water leaking from the ceiling into their room.

Carnival Valor supported the search for a guest who jumped overboard from her balcony on Wednesday evening while the ship was at sea. The ship’s command immediately began search and rescue procedures, returned to the area near where the incident occurred and notified the U.S. Carnival’s CARE team is providing support to the guest’s husband who was traveling with her, as well as her family. “The ship’s command immediately began search and rescue procedures, returned to the area near where the incident occurred and notified the U.S. Carnival’s CARE team is providing support to the guest’s husband who was traveling with her, as well as her family,” Lupoli said in a statement. “Carnival Valor supported the search for a guest who jumped overboard from her balcony on Wednesday afternoon while the ship was at sea.

A Carnival spokesman told the New York Post that the woman was not handcuffed during the incident. “With the footage we have unfortunately learned that my mother has passed away,” wrote the grieving son, who is a businessman based in Melbourne, Australia. Carnival Cruise Line said the ship was released after having assisted with the search and continued on to Ensenada, about a 90-minute drive from the U.S. border. Get a brief on the top business stories of the week, plus CEO interviews, market updates, tech and money news that matters to you. Crews canvassed more than 2,514 square nautical miles off the coast of Louisiana. Carnival told FOX Business that the passenger was never in handcuffs at any point during the incident.

Several passengers have told WAFB that the woman jumped after an incident between her and a man in the hot tub area on the 10th deck. The cell phone footage obtained by Fox 8 shows the 32-year-old woman being restrained by security guards who hold her hands behind her back as she screams “Alicia” before being led away from the pool deck. A woman fell off a Carnival Cruise Line ship balcony and into the Pacific Ocean early Saturday, spurring an international search effort. This latest incident took place two months after a woman fell to her death in the Pacific Ocean after falling overboard on another Carnival ship, spurring an international search effort. 'Carnival's CARE team is providing support to the guest's husband who was traveling with her,' Carnival said in a statement.

He added that Virgin Voyages has offered passengers "100 percent future cruise credit." The vlogger shared that some passengers decided to leave the ship and that others were "shaky" after the incident. The ship was back in Miami early Sunday and has since set sail again with an adjusted itinerary; Roatán is no longer a destination. The vessel will head for Cozumel rather than Costa Maya on Wednesday, says the spokesperson. They add that the ship "was immediately redirected back to Miami, where the team are working closely with local officials."