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A Royal Caribbean cruise passenger went overboard early Monday because the vessel was en path to Singapore.
Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) Singapore was notified round 7:50 a.m. {that a} passenger onboard the Royal Caribbean’s Spectrum of the Seas ship had fallen overboard within the Singapore Strait.
MRCC Singapore issued navigational security broadcast to vessels within the Singapore Strait and vessels in port to maintain a lookout for the lacking individual and report their sightings.
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) stated the passenger was berthed earlier in Singapore to help the investigation and had departed Singapore round 4:30 p.m.
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The Spectrum of the Seas, a Quantum Extremely class cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean Worldwide is seen berthed on the Marina Bay Cruise Centre on Could 23, 2022 in Singapore. (Suhaimi Abdullah/NurPhoto through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Royal Caribbean in search of extra info on the passenger and efforts underway to seek out her.
The Straits Occasions, a Singaporean newspaper, recognized the passenger who went overboard as 64-year-old Reeta Sahani of India.
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Her son, 39-year-old Apoorv Sahani, informed the outlet that his mom couldn’t swim and the ship’s crew “thinks she jumped.”
An empty Merlion Park in Singapore is pictured right here on Feb. 3, 2021. The Spectrum of the Seas cruise ship was on its approach to Singapore when a passenger when overboard. (REUTERS/Edgar Su / Reuters Images)
“She was on a vacation having fun with herself after which this complete factor occurred. It doesn’t make sense,” he reportedly stated.
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The incident comes after a passenger aboard Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas was rescued after falling overboard in late June. She was reported to have been within the water for as much as 45 minutes earlier than being rescued.
